Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 2 | Following upon the Cleveland Report which was concerned with civil proceedings the Criminal Justice Act 1991 has now made it possible for video recordings of interviews with children to be used as evidence in criminal proceedings . |
| 3 | In the case of Georgia , for instance , the legislation provided for the greater use of Georgian in official business , and for compulsory instruction in Georgian for school pupils of other nationalities . |
| 4 | His ( 1975 ) solution is to require that the two opposed elements have the same extension.4 However , this solution is too strong for phrasal appositions like the ones in [ 12 ] . |
| 5 | In recent decades , moreover , the difficulties in these matters have been especially acute for Republican presidents for the simple reason that few senior civil servants are Republicans . |
| 6 | It is usual for engagement letters for sale mandates to include a phrase along the following lines : ‘ The responsibility for the Information Memorandum 's factual accuracy and opinions expressed therein will rest with yourselves . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 8 | Our licence is clear about cost subsidies between different groups of users . ’ |
| 9 | Our licence is clear about cost subsidies between different groups of users . ’ |
| 10 | But other people have used things like tokens which can be y'know saved up to exchanged for consumer durables for example . |
| 11 | Keeps recreation prices low — free for City residents on low incomes . |
| 12 | Over a smaller range , consistent with the acceptable variation of the mains , the relationship may even be assumed to be linear , with error well within the tolerance attainable for plant measurements with this device . |
| 13 | John Disley , course director of the first 11 London marathons , says : ‘ Because road running has become so much more important in recent years — in some countries even more important than track and field events — it seems to be sensible for world records to be ratified . ’ |
| 14 | ( iv ) After the eggs have settled to the bottom of the dish , replace as much of the hyaluronidase solution as possible with warm M2 + BSA , collect the eggs by mouth pipette and wash them free of cumulus cells by repeated passage through further washes of M2 + BSA . |
| 15 | The Romans were fond of lead vessels for food and drink and used lead-based glazes on pottery : lead poisoning was common and has even been proposed as a cause of the madness among high-ranking Romans which contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 16 | Economics can provide several insights into what may go wrong with market forces in R&D . |
| 17 | Western Riding is becoming more and more popular with horse lovers of all ages . |
| 18 | Investment trusts are similar to unit trusts in that they allow persons and companies to obtain a share in a diversified portfolio of assets and have a specialist fund manager to control the portfolio , but are fundamentally different from unit trusts in other ways . |
| 19 | Worse , his thoughts on the matter hint at a general approach that sounds not much different from government attitudes in the bad old past . |
| 20 | They go about this work , however , in a way somewhat different from computer firms in other nations . |
| 21 | Conventional serial file procedures are little different from file procedures for cassette based computers . |
| 22 | In one sense , therefore , this is a highly patterned behaviour ( quite different from velocity fluctuations in a turbulent flow , Fig. 2.6 ) . |
| 23 | Cancer mortality was not significantly different in clinic patients as a whole and controls . |
| 24 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 25 | The combination of high precipitation , water surpluses , large number of wet days and low insolation experienced in highly oceanic areas is thought to increase the rate of growth and the competitive abilities of bryophytes , notably Sphagnum species , hypnoid mosses and Racomitrium ( Poore & McVean 1957 ) , all of which are very conspicuous in plant communities in the Western Isles . |
| 26 | How this requirement is implemented will obviously vary enormously with the level of disability of individual residents and it is normally more economical in staffing terms for there to be a fairly even level of disabilities among the residents of one unit . |
| 27 | Is the Minister interested in building homes in Britain not only to tackle the problem of homelessness but to allow peple to move within the private sector ? |
| 28 | Nor were the Americans merely interested in bomber bases in Britain . |
| 29 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 30 | Community development workers , on the other hand , have been interested in health matters for a long time . |