Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 2 | These are concealed either within the fitting 's baseplate or within the recessed connection box . |
| 3 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 4 | Tickets can be bought on board or from the civic centre . |
| 5 | The great majority of their courses , whether in business and management studies , the sciences and technologies or in the social sciences , prepare students for specific career outlets ; thus modern language courses for the most part give attention to the practical application of the language with a view to the student 's ultimate employment , for example as an interpreter , while courses in social science often include options in such areas as community work , social planning , industrial relations , and public administration . |
| 6 | Three patients ( two randomised to cisapride ) had originally presented with large or multiple chronic duodenal ulcers associated with small solitary areas of slough on either the incisura or in the prepyloric region . |
| 7 | In addition , a serious breach , or a breach of a term classified by the contract or by the general law as a condition , will allow the innocent party to terminate the contract . |
| 8 | If you 've had your sofa or curtains for a while and have thrown away any spare material , take a snip from the inside of a seat cushion or from the inside hem of a pair of curtains to stick in your book . |
| 9 | What do you think would be the profile of an effective RE teacher , whether in the primary or in the secondary school ? |
| 10 | The P/E ratio may be selected from newspapers and published financial statements for similar individual entities or from the relevant industry sector statistics . |
| 11 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 12 | Details were wanted on the number of Englishmen employed " in the Mynes or at the said worke , either for getting Oare or about roasting & melting furnace or hamers , & whether there be any skilful to manage those works if the now farmers should dye . " |
| 13 | In many cases there is a hefty bank and ditch marking the village boundary , but in others this may be marked only by a slight change in level or by the continuous line of the rear of the platforms . |
| 14 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 15 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 16 | The EEC commission , in backing the expenditure of some £50 million on Super- SARA , said that ‘ no other facility available at present or in the foreseeable future provides the range and advantages for in-pile loss of coolant accident simulation . ’ |
| 17 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 18 | Attach the remaining side of touch-and-close fastener to the front edge of the batten with steel tacks or along the top back edge of batten if fitting outside a reveal . |
| 19 | The sort of shade I mean is the dappled shade cast by mature apple trees and maples or by the high branches of an oak . |
| 20 | ( Someone suffering property damage not exceeding £275 may , of course , be able to claim for it in negligence or under the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 21 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 22 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 23 | The Biohybrid pancreas consists of beta cells from animals wrapped up in a patented acrylic plastic and implanted under the skin or in the abdominal cavity . |
| 24 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 25 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |
| 26 | Unlike the novelistic of cinema or of the twentieth-century novel , the television novelistic is organized around interruption rather than around closure . |
| 27 | Evaluation can also be directed towards the educational product the outcome of one course or of the instructional programme . |
| 28 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 29 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 30 | Here leisurely days are the keynote — relax among the fragrant pine woods or on the dazzling beaches , watch the gentle seas turn from pale to dark translucent shades of blue . |