Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parcel bombs sent in early 1990 to a retired Army officer in Valencia , to a prosecutor who had investigated the 1987 Barcelona supermarket bombing [ see p. 35851 ] , and to the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , were defused . |
| 2 | For the last twenty years , it has used the data provided by the Family Expenditure Surveys to estimate the net benefit which different income groups derive from public expenditure . |
| 3 | The proposed gala contained many elements of reunification activities organized by Southern dissidents but banned by the government . |
| 4 | The PAS is well known in the city and receives the overwhelming majority of the section assessment requests received during normal working hours . |
| 5 | The ground twitches , gurgles and bubbles as the insect minutiae adapts to sudden flooding . |
| 6 | The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) . |
| 7 | The SHEP Bond , designed by Resource Partnership with the Isle of Man Assurance , invests in second-hand with-profit endowment policies issued by leading life assurance companies . |
| 8 | A rare sneak preview of summer in the city , ice-cream regency houses linked with solid tree silhouettes against a sky as blue as blue . |
| 9 | In the first 20 years of the Survey 's activities in Scotland , practically all of the central and southern parts of the country had been surveyed on the 6-inch scale and manuscript copies of the field maps made for public reference . |
| 10 | The selected settlement strategies proposed by local planners , discussed below in chapter 7 , have also reinforced the concentration of resources and new development in a small number of key settlements . |
| 11 | But she hopes they will be enjoyed for the music and not simply used as background at drug raves aimed at tempting gullible youngsters . |
| 12 | The motility patterns produced during intra-arterial infusion of carbachol ( 0.1 µmol/l ) were indistinguishable from those initially seen after harvest of the organ and those described in other mammals including man . |
| 13 | Only a few manometric studies have attempted to characterise the motility patterns associated with mass movements . |
| 14 | Of all the science fiction programmes screened on British Television none is so close an ancestor to Doctor Who as Pathfinders . |
| 15 | Varying in size from about 30 to 150 , these teams can draw on the expertise of support groups dealing with specific areas such as material composition and structure , analysis and measurement , property characterization , electrochemical technology , process engineering and so on . |
| 16 | Concentration camp prisoners dressed in German uniforms had been collected near the Polish border and were waiting , drugged , to be shot by their fellow German soldiers , real ones . |
| 17 | Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations . |
| 18 | The knowledge base contains the fault response rules derived from accepted testing procedures combined with the heuristics ( rules of good guessing ) , obtained from ATE test experts . |
| 19 | Finally , ss 28 and 29 exclude from the UCTA contracts governed by international conventions ( eg Athens Convention regulating sea carriage of passengers ) and contracts governed by any other statutory scheme of regulation in the UK which perm its specific exclusions of liability . |
| 20 | By 1987 , 57 local authorities were requested to submit Inner Area Programmes which were to outline the objectives of Urban Programme funding , and to indicate how other funding programmes dovetailed into Urban Programme activities ( DoE , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | The level of library material is an important feature in determining its suitability for particular audiences ( for instance , undergraduates , postgraduates or researchers in an academic library , or the various user groups served by public libraries ) . |
| 22 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 23 | In many ways , this type of semantic ’ parsing ’ had all the abilities of a syntactic parser , plus the ability to allocate case roles according to semantic information extracted from the lexicon ( e.g. , an object such as ’ book ’ can not fill the Agent case role ) . |
| 24 | It may be possible to identify two or more teaching styles based on different frequencies of use of the activity groups . |
| 25 | While the computer systems may reside in a single cabinet ( plus some outboard boxes for disk drives ) , within the AS/400 are terminal support units based on fast general-purpose microprocessors , disk and tape controllers using comparable technology , an intelligent memory subsystem , one or more applications processing engines and a DBMS that owes its power and economy to hardware and microcode . |
| 26 | A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts . |
| 27 | Other items in the tomb were symbolic crescent knives made of thin beaten gold , nearly 400 cast bronze implements , some 400 shells , ceramic vessels and assorted beads . |
| 28 | Professional advice and on-the-job training was provided to two field parties working on late Proterozoic volcanic-ophiolite-granite rocks in the South-eastern desert . |
| 29 | The calcium waves spreading through glial cells may constitute a long-range signalling network acting in concert with conventional neuronal networks . |
| 30 | There were also apprentice schools attached to large manufacturers such as the Metropolitan-Vickers Apprentice School in Trafford Park , Manchester , which offered a dedicated form of secondary education for apprentices with that large electrical engineering firm , some of whom would also in due course seek employment with other electrical manufacturers . |