Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 2 | The law governing school attendance , which is discussed below , provides a good illustration of how the interests of state , parent and child interrelate . |
| 3 | One measure of how the dangers of plutonium are assessed is the Japanese plan to build an £88 million coastguard vessel to escort shipments of plutonium oxide from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria for use in its prototype fast reactor at Monju . |
| 4 | Reddy says that traditional plans also lack a ‘ development focus ’ , and take no account of how the benefits of energy are distributed in society . |
| 5 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 6 | The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes . |
| 7 | The distinction , though convenient for us at the moment , is not absolute , and just as we can not communicate with only the rules of semantics and grammar , so we just as surely can not communicate very well without them . |
| 8 | The revised scheme proposed that the water authorities , now with only the functions of water supply and sewage disposal , should be privatised , but that a new National Rivers Authority should be created ( in the public sector ) to take over from the water authorities the regulatory functions of pollution control , water conservation , land drainage and flood protection , conservation , recreation , fisheries and navigation . |
| 9 | The sky was dark , with only the outlines of dockside warehouses standing sharp on the skyline . |
| 10 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 11 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |
| 12 | The censor on the other hand claims a moral and élitist superiority in his or her actions , and whether intentionally or not credits the user with virtually no powers of discrimination . |
| 13 | From above and from below the pressures of class , existing at present , could be resentfully felt and wished away . |
| 14 | Smoke started to pour out of the mounds , and the crackling of small fireworks sounded from inside the stocks of Dream B. The Doctor filled his pockets with the rocks . |
| 15 | But it is equally necessary that humans engage in a ceaseless and violent struggle with beings which attack from outside the bounds of society . |
| 16 | The board now seek control on only the parameters of profit , cash and broad strategic direction . |
| 17 | Liaising with the transport committees of Regional and District Councils , the Forestry Commission etc. to further the interests of cycling , especially in seeking financial committments and the implementation of local routes ; |
| 18 | The agreement was designed to mark the beginning of a process of consultation on how the principles of self-government could be implemented , including the possibility of greater Indian autonomy in areas such as policing , judicial affairs , education , health care and the use of natural resources . |
| 19 | This logic gives a clue as to how the problems of sectorization and staffing were to be approached by Exeter managers . |
| 20 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry , ’ Andy muttered , not sounding sorry at all , getting unsteadily out of his seat and going to where the bits of glass lay broken on the carpet . |
| 22 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 23 | As a practical clinician he sought to describe the normal and the pathological without resorting to either the abstractions of galenism or the incomprehensible mythological and numerological symbolism of contemporary alchemy . |
| 24 | A sophisticated burglar-alarm system has aided overnight and weekend security and although the caretaker is not on call from 11am to 3.30pm the levels of demand have fallen during this time as a direct result of his monitoring skills . |
| 25 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
| 26 | What could directors who had drawn stories from the tensions in English society make films about when the sources of finance were no longer interested in ‘ England ’ , only in spy stories and lineal descendants of James Bond ? |
| 27 | He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it . |
| 28 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 29 | From the early days , the children destined for university would have acquired at least the rudiments of Greek and perhaps even a little Hebrew : books in all three languages had been left to the School by William Nicholson , the Master , in 1597 . |
| 30 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |