Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes , they worked their way up floor by floor . |
| 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 | It is possible for such sentiments of approval of this past to coexist with abhorrence for most current acts of violence . |
| 4 | The thing is , there is nothing like a bike for sheer visceral excitement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Need extra growing space or require speedy protection for tender young plants ? |
| 7 | The paper , on legal protection for mental incapacitated adults , will recommend legal definitions of adults at risk be extended for vulnerable elderly people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And way above it all , on top of a nearby mountain , are the anti-aircraft guns which seem to provide scant protection for these 4,000 students . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Altogether some 2,500 animal species and 35,000 plants were listed either in Appendix I or Appendix II ; the Kyoto meeting added a further 45 and approved the upgrading of protection for some 35 species transferred to the Appendix 1 list . |
| 15 | In other vicinities , clusters of schools shared some part of their staff in pursuit of a common curriculum entitlement for all those pupils who would transfer from , for instance , distant and isolated primary schools to a single country-town secondary school . |
| 16 | What is more , they would get absolutely nothing in benefit entitlement for this purported contribution . |
| 17 | The urge to find a kind of treasure chest for all that humanity must preserve as precious at all costs , has also found its expression in this other sequel to the rise of Christianity . |
| 18 | Authorities exceeding their target incurred a penalty which involved loss of grant for each additional pound of expenditure per head of population above target . |
| 19 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 20 | There is no grant for ninety four five either . |
| 21 | A single off the hip ; a pull for one more run ; a vain swish ; gasps ; a hook for a single , Lamb the fielder . |
| 22 | Smith , dismissed twice by Aussie wonder boy Shane Warne during the Old Trafford Test defeat , had a couple of lengthy net sessions at Lord 's yesterday when England began their preparation for round two of the Ashes battle . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | Preparation for possible urgent admission to hospital |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Ports did a 5-0 demolition job on Ballyclare in midweek , perfect preparation for another emphatic victory yesterday . |
| 27 | John saw his baptism as the preparation for this new era . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A DOCTOR spent last night shivering in a frozen food store room in preparation for some cold nights ahead . |
| 30 | 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 . |