Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers . |
| 2 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 3 | One reason for resistance to the new paradigm was the sheer impossibility of convincing geologists in the traditional way : by convening on an outcrop and hammering out the evidence . |
| 4 | Through this people God called for resistance to the great rebel and usurper of the world . |
| 5 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
| 6 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 7 | In the United States , for example , there is a discernable preference for products with the technological appeal of a ‘ gadget ’ |
| 8 | It takes genius to go from playful thoughts about beetles to a deep understanding of the Universe . |
| 9 | It began in 1857 with four young men meeting for prayer in an old school-house near Kells in County Antrim . |
| 10 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 11 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 12 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |
| 13 | Iraq has not designated the wetlands for protection under the international Ramsar convention . |
| 14 | A map showing areas of British coastal waters being considered for protection under the European Community 's habitats directive is apparently being withheld from public distribution at the request of the Department of the Environment . |
| 15 | Rather than seeking to match American strength Western Europe soon looked to Washington for protection from the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 17 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 18 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 19 | Those things which confer privilege ( quality shops , education , flats and health care ) are acquired through privilege in the first place ; they can not be had for money . |
| 20 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 21 | Later , play-group and school greatly extend the range of influences , especially through exposure to a wide range of planned and spontaneous social interactions with peers . |
| 22 | Through exposure to the rich variety of skills , attitudes , gifts , life- and workstyles found in ordinary people , children can be shown that all individuals are unique and that it is their differences ( rather than their similarities ) which are of value to society . |
| 23 | Bawsinch Nature Reserve was bought in 1971 for £1,000 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to provide a buffer zone for Duddingston Bird Sanctuary and provide additional habitats . |
| 24 | They love the way the story trails away into the postscript about improvements to the mental health service . |
| 25 | They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources . |
| 26 | In gold shops they also burn off mercury on a huge scale . |
| 27 | It was the received wisdom in Edwardian Edinburgh printing offices , and it has been repeated by writers ever since , " that women first entered the trade as strike-breakers during the great print strike of 1872–3 in the city . |
| 28 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 29 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 30 | Agriculture accounts for 50% of the long-term damage inflicted on these areas . |