Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 2 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 3 | I do n't give damn about building contractors not being paid . |
| 4 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 5 | They were all the kind of diplomatic event which in normal times Mr Heath would much enjoy and at which he would perform very well . |
| 6 | The Group says , production , home sales and exports have all been outstanding for Austin Rover and Landrover vehicles . |
| 7 | The government also made efforts to persuade Saudi Arabia to resume oil supplies , including making a payment of US$6,000,000 outstanding for June oil bills . |
| 8 | Veteran actor Sir John did not have a suitable photograph of himself to adorn the cover of Backward Glances , the concluding volume of an autobiographical trilogy begun in 1939 and due for paperback publication in the New Year . |
| 9 | Special mention is also due for Dorothy TeeBoon , John Rowlands and Hughie Maguire with 30 years ’ service . |
| 10 | The Liverpudlian writer is producing and directing an all-British film called Getaway due for cinema release next spring . |
| 11 | SPIKE LEE 's new film Malcolm X , due for US release in November , will spawn two soundtrack albums . |
| 12 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 13 | Bloke due for business pitch has n't even arrived ! ! |
| 14 | I 'm due for Christmas lunch with friends at the Garrick . ’ |
| 15 | OSF CHIEF HESITANT ABOUT USL ACQUISITION |
| 16 | Asif Mujtaba had made his first Test half-century and seemed quite settled , while England will have felt apprehensive about Salim Malik after he was spared at 22 by Gooch at slip , low and to his left , off Lewis . |
| 17 | They may not be unduly apprehensive about climate change , but they know about the greenhouse effect and how the state of the world and their own localities impinges on their lives . |
| 18 | Most of us are nervous and apprehensive about job interviews . |
| 19 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 20 | But you see , that wo n't be right for year end will it ? |
| 21 | Come on Yvonne come and be a teddy bear , oh yes just right for teddy bear |
| 22 | And it was right for John Gummer , Minister for Agriculture , to be regularly , some might say infuriatingly , optimistic : ‘ It would be quite wrong for him to go round wringing his hands . ’ |
| 23 | And in the scope and authority section of the document it gives the right for section conferences to have the authority to discuss and decide strategic issues affecting their industries . |
| 24 | Giving a hint of the rivalry to come , a Central TV spokesman said : ‘ We felt the slot was right for Sir Robin and ideally placed on that particular night . |
| 25 | It is understandable for health authorities to err on the side of caution , as these guidelines will not apply to everyone . |
| 26 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 27 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 28 | The focal point is the château of Auvers-sur-Oise , built in the Italianate manner in 1635 for Zannoby Liony , banker to Maria de' Medici and her court , and later transformed into a French-style residence . |
| 29 | Alatas and Avice travelled from Vietnam to Thailand where efforts were made to arrange a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Jakarta [ see p. 37916 for SNC meeting in Paris in December 1990 ] . |
| 30 | A photograph on the front page of The Sun newspaper claiming to show three Labour Party delegates asleep during Neil Kinnock 's keynote speech was criticised yesterday . |