Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 2 | He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane . |
| 3 | Psychoanalysis finds little credence among laymen for assertions such as these . |
| 4 | The state of goth — as catch-all historical movement for the too-ugly and the too-grim and as a modern phenom — is given little credence by UK Decay , the ridiculous Virgin Prunes , the talentless and misguided Christian Death , The Neff 's rubbish psychobilly and the new blood 's slavering adherence to the Sisters Of Mercy songbook ( eg Rosetta Stone , James Ray , Nosferatu ) . |
| 5 | I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible . |
| 6 | In Australia , Canada and the United States during the 1970s inquiries into the political police and internal-security agencies demonstrated clearly that reliance on interviews with chief constables and general assertions of good faith by all concerned would be inadequate . |
| 7 | It should finally be noted that it has also emerged that reliance on markets as a disciplinary device , and in particular on the market for control , is itself far from costless . |
| 8 | Diana admits that she was n't easy to handle during that baptism of fire . |
| 9 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 10 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 11 | Any substance that tends to re-awaken the craving for the primary addictive " drug of choice " is cross-addictive with that drug of choice . |
| 12 | In this case the sclerites composing the tergum are known as tergites , those of the sternum as sternites , and those constituting each pleuron as pleurites . |
| 13 | Adverse events were noted a at each installation of B G C and at the time of the first cystoscopy and were scored for severity and the highest score was then re recorded and appears on this erm histogram which relates to frequency as a symptom . |
| 14 | The Central Statistical Office has confirmed that census of production data collected under the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification survey will show separate employee statistics for the book publishing sector . |
| 15 | I 'd imagine there 'd be people maybe down and outs maybe tramps sleep in that park with newspaper round them or something . |
| 16 | Thus , for example , the accounts and budget might be presented in detail but only total net expenditure of each division of service is compared with budget , showing the over-/under-spending and explaining broadly the reasons for any variance . |
| 17 | Standard groupings — for each division of service , these groupings represent the main areas of expenditure and income , e.g. employees , premises , transport , etc . |
| 18 | But then , for each division of service , a subjective analysis is provided , e.g. salaries , premises , etc . |
| 19 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 20 | Each division of CCG will be in charge of its own quality control programme , setting up Quality Improvement Teams who will come up with ideas to improve various aspects of their particular areas . |
| 21 | To describe a process ' first step behaviour we will thus use three levels of syntax : essentially one for each variety of choice . |
| 22 | Teenage girls returned from that camp with stories of speaking in tongues and exorcising evil spirits . |
| 23 | It has been possible , relatively simply , to prescribe most qualifying lenders on the face of the Bill , but I hope that the Opposition and others will understand that provision for others , including some institutional and centralised lenders , can be made in the regulations that we shall introduce in due course . |
| 24 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 25 | That is why section 15(1) is needed and why it is best to prosecute under that provision in cases where deception is alleged to have been practised . |
| 26 | He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse . |
| 27 | In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved . |
| 28 | That division in sensibility , which still haunts the English middle classes , between the unsatisfactory domestic environments of cities , and the idyll of a cottage in the country , will be the subject of a later chapter . |
| 29 | But the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya had little enthusiasm for Clinton ‘ a chameleon that changes colour every day ’ . |
| 30 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |