Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But possibly because of his broad experience of both the public and private sectors , Cuckney rode out the storm calmly . |
| 2 | The negotiations continued into 1991 [ see pp. 37658 ; 37716 ; 37861 ; 37919 ; 38195 ] , but the situation was abruptly altered when Mount Pinatubo began erupting in June , causing extensive damage to both the Clark and Subic bases [ see p. 38294 ] . |
| 3 | We feel it 's important to establish a strong Celtic festival , and Glasgow has a strong attachment to both the Irish and the Scottish Celtic traditions . |
| 4 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 5 | The relics were discovered in a lead box in the ruins of the abbey on land owned by two brothers , who had conflicting views on where the relics should be housed and who should own them . |
| 6 | This continues today as the natural forest resource is managed to provide wood and wood-based products in both the developed and developing world . |
| 7 | Given the varying levels of computer expertise in Colleges at that time , and the current status of the proposed new systems , it was difficult to make specific proposals about how the associated responsibilities should be handled at College level . |
| 8 | Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants . |
| 9 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 10 | We can only protect a national curriculum from the political dogmas of either the right or the left if we understand the reasons for these changes . |
| 11 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 12 | We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns . |
| 13 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 14 | Temperatures will hover around eight to ten degrees celsius , that s forty six to fifty fahrenheit with only a moderate breeze . |
| 15 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 16 | Accordingly , in allocating each of the matched subjects to either the control or to the experimental group , and to ensure that there is no surreptitious influence determining this allocation , the researcher randomly allocates one of each matched pair of subjects to one or the other group . |
| 17 | In the dead of night Elaine , 28 , drove the sparkling H-reg car from outside the home of her husband 's lover , through a pedestrian precinct and into the town hall 's glass-fronted main entrance . |
| 18 | Increased expenditure on education was sound economic investment for both the individual and the country . |
| 19 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 20 | The Rockies , Great Lakes and the gargantuan Niagara Falls lend an air of immense grandeur and beauty to this former French outpost , now a bilingual land which maintains strong ties with both the British and French cultures . |
| 21 | Insider dealing is an economic crime in much the same way as theft is a crime of property . |
| 22 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 24 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |
| 25 | This then produces a reasonable working drawing in both the front and side views . |
| 26 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it is the latter doctrine which dominates present-day thinking in the Western democracies , not only in the political parties of both the right and the left but also among most of you who are likely to be reading this book . |
| 28 | During 1989 the Luchaire affair , concerning French arms sales to Iran between 1982 and 1986 when such sales were embargoed , threatened to develop into a major political scandal affecting the Defence Ministry and political parties on both the left and right [ see p. 35982 ] . |
| 29 | Indeed , I , I mean there , there is a , a great difference of opinion between the two political parties on how the Health Service er should be organised . |
| 30 | By the end of the 1950s that argument was becoming less effective as time blurred the collective memory of the Republic and an increasingly large sector of the population had no direct experience of either the Republic or the Civil War . |