Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It was a political decision made by the government and not by the Federation , " Bland said . |
| 2 | Functionally the political decision shown in the drawing may seem very similar to the refusal to make a decision . |
| 3 | He defied suspension under a gagging contract imposed by the counties on their cricketers — but which , I feel , the players should have refused to sign . |
| 4 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 5 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 6 | An interpretation of a child 's language will be derived from some comparison between the child 's actual language and a descriptive framework incorporated within the assessment procedure . |
| 7 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 8 | Most commercially exploited minerals in Britain tend to be in the older geological strata located in the more remote western and upland regions , while sand and gravel occur in coastal or valley sites or in glacial deposits , particularly in the south and east of England . |
| 9 | At a time when galleries are retrenching or closing , it is nice to be able to report this exciting European link forged by the energetic Hue-Williams , and to note the arrival of Marianne Holtermann , private dealer in modern and contemporary art , who has opened an office above Bolger Carpets at 31 New Bond Street . |
| 10 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 11 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 12 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 13 | Within the coterminous Borough and Parliamentary Constituency of Blyth Valley , the old Labour hegemony based on the coal field has been seriously threatened by the emergence of an Alliance challenge . |
| 14 | Its unusual mahogany colouring and coat pattern , with a bold white finching along the back and underside and flashing white tail , suggest close links with the extinct Glamorgan ( see Welsh cattle ) and most would accept that the two in due course merged into a single breed . |
| 15 | In spite of his breakdowns , Hoccleve achieved a position of seniority and in due course retired with a pension . |
| 16 | The fragmented appearance of their work , especially its Lettrist phase , their repudiation of conventional skills and scholarly manners ( evidenced in their use of personal insults ) have been absorbed by subcultural milieux and in due course adapted by the culture industries . |
| 17 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 18 | The formulation of inductive generalizations ( using algebraic notation ) , or the application of rules to a new context , are more specific meanings attached to the term . |
| 19 | The solid bark parted like a mist , closed like a clam . |
| 20 | The underlying cause for this decision was the awful damage caused by the savage winter of 1709 . |
| 21 | In the centre of the town , where the Prussian royal palace used to stand , looms a huge and still unfinished building known as the House of the Soviets . |
| 22 | The associative data is extracted from the INSERT PARTS command , and the spatial data from the digitized coordinates and the inserted part 's drawing file , which is a structured set of work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files held in the CAD data base ( this is fully explained in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education . |
| 24 | One sees here a complementary tendency to the influence of free sculpture on relief apparent in the evolution of high relief : a free-standing statue influenced by the conventions of narrative art . |
| 25 | If the essential educational standard or technical skills required by the job/personnel specification are not there then the candidate can be quickly rejected . |
| 26 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 27 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 28 | However , certain special features of underwriting arrangements ( ie the proportion of the ultimate total liability assumed by an underwriter , the commission structure , or the degree of involvement of the underwriter with the offeror in connection with the offer ) may be such as to lead the Panel to conclude that a sufficient level of understanding has been created between the offeror and the underwriter for them to be treated as acting in concert . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression . |
| 30 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |