Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The results are preserved in some notes for a course of undergraduate lectures on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex and an essay called " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in both of which Greek tragedy is the primary object of attention . |
| 32 | NOTES FOR A LITTLE PLAY |
| 33 | The investigation found no evidence that the then Democratic candidate had been engaged in illegal activities during a trip to Moscow in 1969–70 . |
| 34 | The report also summarizes the global value of peat bogs , their special plant and animal communities , the archaeological evidence preserved in peat , and the role of peatlands as a store of greenhouse gases . |
| 35 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 36 | While making no overt concessions , he told lawyers and judges at the Middle Temple in London that discussions between a proposed advisory committee , the Law Society and senior judges ‘ may lead to different conclusions for different types of case , and most important of all , our conclusions may change in the light of experience ’ . |
| 37 | Gilmont said he did not expect the bank to lay off personnel as a result of increased EDI use ; rather , they would be redeployed to more ‘ value-added ’ jobs . |
| 38 | Internal relations will also be furthered if those who have featured on filmed material are told when they might expect to see themselves , and the company personnel as a whole will be interested in watching a program me featuring their company . |
| 39 | Mr Churchill-Coleman said he believed the IRA would suffer further setbacks as a result of new intelligence gathering resources including the involvement of MI5 . |
| 40 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 41 | Our Investigation Department were not dragging their heels in this respect and had already pulled off several coups as a result of painstaking groundwork with contacts abroad and in the UK . |
| 42 | Moreover , while Phizacklea and Miles believe that changes in the material circumstances of the working class can provide only a partial solution to the problem of racist ideologies , the political project of the transformation of capitalism and working-class conditions advocated by Hatcher and Shall ice ( and other left antiracists in education ) squeezes out of consideration the rather important caveat entered by Phizacklea and Miles about the prospects for change in racist ideologies as a result of changes in the material base . |
| 43 | In the autumn of 1989 , therefore , the evidence for a permanent revolution in British public and private attitudes as a result of ten years of Mrs Thatcher 's rule was far from conclusive . |
| 44 | He felt that attitudes as a bad debt problem made itself felt , got out of control and was brought down again , could be typically summarised like this : |
| 45 | This may be contrasted with the second type , the " attitude survey " , which aims at producing an accurate picture of people 's attitudes as a guide to their likely behaviour . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , a start needed to be made somewhere to build a cumulative and objective body of knowledge of the relationships between the properties of social phenomena as a prelude to the formulation of substantial theoretical laws . |
| 47 | It was within the latter context , that Lazarsfeld and his colleagues sought to apply a generic conception of measurement to social phenomena as a means of effecting the link between theorical concepts and the empirical world . |
| 48 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 49 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 50 | Immigration R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Khalid Hussain ; CA ( Lloyd , Glidewell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 5 Oct 1989 Under r 18 of the Immigration Appeals Procedure Rules 1972 , the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal considering whether or not to hear oral evidence to determine whether there were compassionate reasons for a person convicted of murder to be given entry clearance was a matter of discretion and could only be attacked on Wednesbury principles or other recognised rules . |
| 51 | To impute that Dr Runcie has been an unsuccessful archbishop by quoting falling numbers in that part of the Anglican Communion which is the Church of England is to ignore a whole complex of reasons for a reduction in church-going , including , no doubt , the encouragement of a highly competitive and success-orientated society . |
| 52 | They consulted the archbishop or archbishops , took their advice , did not persist if the archbishop brought good reasons for a contrary opinion , and did not allow their ‘ patronage secretary ’ any ‘ independent ’ authority . |
| 53 | This is now starting to burn oil and I am thinking of changing the engine to a diesel , The reasons for a diesel engine would be greater fuel economy and cheaper fuel as well as greater torque . |
| 54 | Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context . |
| 55 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 56 | On the other hand , they also need to explain their own good reasons for a decision , and refuse to give in to teenage threats or tears , when they know that decision is right . |
| 57 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 58 | Some other reasons for a cough could be : |
| 59 | The 1992 accounts are due to be published shortly , and the company has agreed to ‘ provide fuller information about a number of accounting policies ’ , including the background and reasons for a transfer to reserves and the non-depreciation of properties described as leasehold and lease rentals . |
| 60 | Recently , the BAG handed down a decision ( 4ASR 293/91 ) in which it stated that there were no justifiable reasons for a differential in wages . |