Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 2 | This involves grasping the dynamic inter-relation between new scientific knowledges and the much broader public debates over national efficiency and imperial survival . |
| 3 | The requirement in the Adoption Agency Regulations to counsel the parents specifically about all the alternatives to adoption , and to make sure that their views about these different alternatives are placed before the court , together with the fact that guardians ad litem and reporting officers will also be scrutinising this element of the work , should lead to more careful practice at this stage . |
| 4 | The Institute of International Finance has vacancies for senior international economists . |
| 5 | It is possible for such sentiments of approval of this past to coexist with abhorrence for most current acts of violence . |
| 6 | The thing is , there is nothing like a bike for sheer visceral excitement . |
| 7 | The pledges about post-war economic policy which were extracted from the government before Beveridge were due to the United States and the importance it attached to statements of economic war aims , which were incorporated in the Atlantic Charter and the Mutual Aid Agreement between the two countries . |
| 8 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 9 | Need extra growing space or require speedy protection for tender young plants ? |
| 10 | The paper , on legal protection for mental incapacitated adults , will recommend legal definitions of adults at risk be extended for vulnerable elderly people . |
| 11 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
| 12 | ‘ With your permission , I 'd like to use your warehouse as a staging area and base of operations , while we secure the area and send in protection for other American interests in the city . ’ |
| 13 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 14 | Therefore , if the Directive is adopted in its current form it will reduce the available protection for certain electronic databases to the lower 10 years unfair extraction right period . |
| 15 | A spokesman reiterated the position : ‘ The Red Cross symbol is the only protection for unarmed international workers who have to operate in remote and life-threatening situations . |
| 16 | What is more , they would get absolutely nothing in benefit entitlement for this purported contribution . |
| 17 | Authorities exceeding their target incurred a penalty which involved loss of grant for each additional pound of expenditure per head of population above target . |
| 18 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 19 | In the judgement of two recent historians of British transport , the increased supply and quality of road and waterway transport over the eighteenth century are " perhaps the most important part of the build-up of the general facilities of the economy — what economists call its infrastructure — and are therefore to be regarded as a preparation for general economic advance " . |
| 20 | Preparation for possible urgent admission to hospital |
| 21 | Coalition partners had agreed on a minimum programme with familiar priorities : the fight against organized crime ; reduction of the public deficit ; preparation for European economic union ; and the reform of public services . |
| 22 | The Ports did a 5-0 demolition job on Ballyclare in midweek , perfect preparation for another emphatic victory yesterday . |
| 23 | John saw his baptism as the preparation for this new era . |
| 24 | So , as the architects comfortably settled back into their chairs cradling their after-dinner brandies in preparation for some regal platitudes , the Prince launched into a stinging attack that left them reeling . |
| 25 | A DOCTOR spent last night shivering in a frozen food store room in preparation for some cold nights ahead . |
| 26 | In preparation for likely positional changes next season , captain Liz Oehlers decided to make some interesting alterations to the side , effectively swapping the defence with the forwards . |
| 27 | The pragmatic route through this hazardous thicket of management and evaluation issues which has evolved on the Modular Course has four elements : |
| 28 | Danny also arranged a successful group counselling session at Swindon for 25 British Rail Maintenance staff . |
| 29 | The American doctrine may however possess more rigour for certain related reasons . |
| 30 | Other musical diversions include conducting , leading and playing in a large number of amateur and semi-professional orchestras/chamber ensembles and writing 200+ sleeve notes for major classical record labels , . |