Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the north see for example Polunin ( 1951 ) , Young ( 1971 ) and Bliss ( 1981 ) ; Bliss ( 1981–9 ) provides a table of comparison between eight published biogeographical systems . |
| 2 | A £1.4 billion boost for the NHS would pay for 7,000 lost nursing jobs ( £136 million ) , keep open intensive care beds , improve hospitals and fund things like a desperately needed £10 million on ambulance services . |
| 3 | ( 1984 ) found that the cross-section benefit elasticities as estimated from the Family Expenditure Survey data for 1972–7 exhibited considerable variability depending on how the relevant income variables were constructed . |
| 4 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
| 5 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
| 6 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 7 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 8 | Almost all the new stations opened in the London suburban area after 1920 had some form of subsidy from the developers . |
| 9 | The bit about is OK but should the Lukic figure read — 1.5 million , he has after all scored more goals for the opposition than for us . |
| 10 | Newport ..... 13 Barbarians .. 40 SO THE Welsh have not after all severed all links with South Africa . |
| 11 | In the USA a rising wage share after 1966 prevented total stagnation of take-home pay as productivity slowed , consumer prices rose relatively fast and taxes were increased . |
| 12 | But one ca n't help wondering why , after two failed trans-Atlantic unions , he did n't decide to try British for once . |
| 13 | The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were unprecedented anywhere in the world . |
| 14 | Andy Roxburgh , the Scotland coach , said their consistency during the campaign made their return to the side essential after both missed last month 's defeat by Yugoslavia because of injury . |
| 15 | Japan thus remained isolated while yet being part of Asia , and the imposed seclusion after 1639 reinforced this degree of detachment . |
| 16 | Each month during 1991 saw average ozone levels reach new highs . |
| 17 | The Local Government Planning Act of 1980 introduced major changes in the structure of the rate support grant , as follows : |
| 18 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 19 | On top of each put little pieces of anchovy fillet ( or anchovy paste squeezed from a tube ) and/or halved , stoned black olives . |
| 20 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
| 21 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 22 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 23 | In 3 games , Town have lost 2 and drawn one and on top of that had two players sent-off on Saturday . |
| 24 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 25 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
| 26 | Similarly in the New Forest an Act of 1697 gave statutory powers to the local ‘ Verderers ’ Court' to impose fines for such offences as stealing timber , burning the heath and destroying the covert . |
| 27 | According to a 1988 census about one-quarter of Brussels ' population of 9,927,000 comprised foreign nationals , including 135,000 from Maghreb countries ; many thousands more north Africans were known to have arrived illegally since then . |
| 28 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 29 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |
| 30 | None of this brought much comfort to William Joyce . |