Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1980 local economic strategies took their place among the many uncontested , bipartisan policies of local government , although with the recession and the ‘ de-industrialization ’ of Britain this was an expanding activity for an increasing number of local authorities . |
| 2 | With a soft groan , Rohan pulled her into his arms , holding her close against his body , the strong fingers stroking her hair with surprising gentleness . |
| 3 | The feel of his strong fingers enclosing her small palm came as something of a shock to her system . |
| 4 | This time the hiss was louder and strong fingers gripped his shoulder and shook it , jerking him awake . |
| 5 | But many responsible local finance officers accepted the phrase as an accurate description of , indeed as a compliment to , their legal and professional attempts to protect their localities against Government interference . |
| 6 | One of the biggest challenges to this new-look management was to cope with the ‘ tribalism ’ of the service ; the tendency of professional groups to cherish their historic rights to govern their own affairs . |
| 7 | A review of on-site fire protection equipment available for fighting fires in high-bay warehouses stating its advantages and disadvantages . |
| 8 | But such is the pressure on professional boxers to prove their absolute fitness that the British Boxing Board of Control last month ordered Hodkinson to undertake full medical tests , and he was cleared only after being examined by four ophthalmic surgeons . |
| 9 | Shell Advanced Fuels clean your engine as you drive . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend set out the Government 's policies some time ago in a clear document that was fully backed by the CBI , which believes that we have the right policies to improve our competitiveness and to take advantage of lower inflation and of business conditions around the world as they improve . |
| 11 | Discounting , too , increased as an acceptable practice as European hoteliers imitated their US counterparts . |
| 12 | He was standing in a pool of blood and water and behind him a line of bloody footprints marked his painful progress from the showers . |
| 13 | The details are still missing , but the main outlines are becoming clear as United States and European statesmen make their pronouncements and tour the capitals of their Middle Eastern allies in an atmosphere of ever greater confidence . |
| 14 | Good teachers , they say , need to have the appropriate professional skills to teach their subject ‘ to children of different ages , abilities , aptitudes and backgrounds ’ . |
| 15 | Many voluntary organisations depend heavily on those with technical , secretarial , accountancy , fund-raising , carpentry , building or professional skills giving their advice free of charge . |
| 16 | This is why it is so vital that the EC 's half-hearted plans to deregulate its airlines after 1992 should be strengthened , not diluted . |
| 17 | But small though it is , Barèges was one of the first Pyrenean spas to make its name , mainly because Louis XIV 's sick son was sent there to be treated in the 1670s . |
| 18 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 19 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 20 | Oddly enough , Ghanashyam ( A Broken Branch ) approaches opera in the nature of the story it tells : originating in village festivities , the tale unfolds a rake 's progress towards perdition , in this case via drugs , but with an extra metaphysical twist when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his wife . |
| 21 | The Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish Economy Ministers had met with their German , Austrian and Swiss counterparts in Salzburg , Austria , on Sept. 14 , the first meeting of its kind , and had been promised that the west European participants were ready to increase efforts to help eastern and central European states to improve their economies . |
| 22 | All of the patients had undergone extensive investigations to evaluate their intestinal function . |
| 23 | The Sheikh with his now tall sons wore their long grey and brown winter kandoras . |
| 24 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 25 | ‘ … as older , more unprofitable and less environmentally acceptable deep mines are closed and more efficient and profitable operations take their place , the volume of opencast mining should be allowed to decline . |
| 26 | Something walking across her grave … or the forces in heaven laughing at her vain attempts to re-write her future ? |
| 27 | Villa-Flotilla offers a course which teaches even complete beginners to skipper their own yachts . |
| 28 | For instance , when the political prisoners staged their hunger strike during the Pope 's visit , we broadcast their demands . |
| 29 | and it was er open on her bed , she popped out for , for about , I du n no forty odd minutes to get her hair done or something I was well tempted to have a look , but I thought no if I get a diary and somebody looked , looked through mine I would n't be happy about it , so I did n't its quite a hard temptation but |
| 30 | The Rothamsted researchers confirmed their suspicions in a series of delicate experiments involving the aphid , Myzus persicae , the wild potato S. tuberthaultii and its cultivated relative S. tuberosum . |