Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 3 | Percolation and absorption through the earth banks . |
| 4 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 5 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 6 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 7 | They live in Langford Village , two miles from Bicester in Oxfordshire Barbara works as a clerk for a removal company , Joelle is a care assisstant at a home for the disabled , while Bobby is still at school . |
| 8 | Mr Blackburn , a Belfast man , was clerk for the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1970 to March , 1972 , and then clerk of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973–74 . |
| 9 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 10 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 11 | Like copyright , this right is automatic and does not depend on registration but , unlike registered designs , there is no requirement for the design to have eye-appeal , although if it does , it is not barred from protection as a design right . |
| 12 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 13 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 14 | As such , tax diversion was not entitled to protection as a manifestation nf a philosophical belief in practice in the way that other acts , more intimately linked to the belief ( for example , acts of worship ) would be . |
| 15 | Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’ |
| 16 | It became an important building as the burial place for the kings of Sweden . |
| 17 | As part of Richard MacCormac 's drive to develop the building as an architecture centre , the exhibition programme at 66 Portland Place expanded considerably . |
| 18 | In GEC 's Patent , the employer had obtained patent protection for a cockpit display unit which had been invented by an employee for use in military aircraft . |
| 19 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 20 | An air trooper of 2 flight Army Air Corps provides close protection for the Gazelle helicopters at a forward airfield |
| 21 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 22 | The December package also angered employers as it eliminated tax concessions and protection for the vehicle assembly industry , while imposing higher corporate income tax and social security contributions . |
| 23 | The final point to consider in this section is the ability of an employer to seek protection for the trade connections not only of his own company but also of other associated companies . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal had held that there was no trade dispute and so no protection for the trade union officials . |
| 25 | The protection of the new file will be the default protection for the Process Account , and it should be reset , if necessary , as follows : |
| 26 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 27 | At the conclusion of the programme , the Minister of Conservation will reassess the regulations required to provide protection for the downunder dolphin . |
| 28 | " The US civil aviation security system is seriously flawed , " it said , " and has failed to provide the proper level of protection for the travelling public . " |
| 29 | In the United Kingdom , the question of copyright protection for an instruction set was considered in Microsense Systems Ltd. v Control Systems Technology Ltd. ( 1991 ) . |
| 30 | The Conservative government of the early 1980s was committed to the replacement of domestic rates by a system of local taxation that improved the accountability to the local tax-payer for the spending decisions of the local authority . |