Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the open sea , Joseph Ritter — always there beneath the text or in the shadows of Boswell 's narrative — mystifyingly lost Johnson 's spurs overboard . |
| 2 | They must therefore retain the property to which an infant is entitled till he attains full age , and meanwhile deal with it under the directions of the will or settlement or under the orders of the court . |
| 3 | Thus politicians may say whatever they choose in Parliament or at the proceedings of select committees ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 4 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 5 | If there is a doubt put it in pencil and wait for confirmation from your own experience or from the reports of others . |
| 6 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
| 7 | Superb photographs illustrate the remarkable life-cycles of ferns and their close relatives , and their extraordinary adaptability — for example , ferns growing in impenetrable mangrove swamps or between the boulders of the Mexican desert . |
| 8 | The increased use of personal computers means that files of secret information may be left lying around on a cassette or floppy disc in unlocked offices or at the homes of executives . |
| 9 | You could divide your plot into squares or like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 10 | From there , it is delivered to shops or to the warehouses of other record companies . |
| 11 | Moreover , however arbitrary musical meanings and conventions are — rather than being ‘ natural ’ , or determined by some human essence or by the needs of class expression — once particular musical elements are put together in particular ways , and acquire particular connotations , these can be hard to shift . |
| 12 | Six men had bled to death there in the snow or in the arms of friends and relatives as they carried them home . |
| 13 | Put into precise terms , one can say that , in clinical and applied psychoanalysis , the individualistic fallacy alleges that the individual 's Oedipus complex is wholly explicable by reference to himself and to his family situation , without regard to the history of that complex or to the origins of the family and of human psychological structures as a whole . |
| 14 | For example , the word ’ bank ’ , in isolation , can refer to a financial institution or to the sides of a river ( among other things ) . |
| 15 | The project aims to investigate the design of ‘ automatic ’ foreign-language dictionaries for visual look-up or for the purposes of machine aided translation ; to analyse the linguistic strategies needed for this and to study the operationalisation and computerisation of such methods . |
| 16 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 17 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 18 | These are prepared by Counsel in a Court of Session action or by the solicitors in a Sheriff Court action , on the basis of the evidence on the insurance file . |
| 19 | Parents and governors , on the other side , know what they are told , what they sense through adult contact with schools or through the reports of children and the family . |
| 20 | This meant goodbye to the subsidies for the arts and to the traces of freedom for the press . |
| 21 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 22 | While in isolation and in the hands of enthusiasts , each subject had merit ( although there was great concern about premature labelling ) , in total it was unmanageable . |
| 23 | The care which Bailey lavished on his " treasures " within the National Trust was at least equalled by his work as activist and propagandist for the " eternal values " of poetry through the Association and in the pages of the Newbolt Report where his contribution to the section on the universities was particularly notable . |
| 24 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 25 | in their own consciousness and between the covers of novels bearing my name , somewhat inaccurately , as author . |
| 26 | He went out of the bedroom and down the stairs to the hallway where Matilda Jenkins was waiting for him with her hand out . |
| 27 | Mr Töpfer has threatened to apply a similar scheme to car manufacturers and to the makers of electronic goods , such as computers and television sets . |
| 28 | He 'd begun from Inverness and started to work his way westward , around Beauly Firth and towards the forests of Corriehallie and Lochrosque . |
| 29 | This is self-explanatory and is needed for comparison purposes both between organizations and between the needs of present and future generations . |
| 30 | In addition to his responsibilities for roads and bridges , the commissioners employed him to plan and erect forty new churches , mostly in outlying districts and on the islands of the Hebrides . |