Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two developments are worthy of note , both of which serve to substantiate further the notion of the institution as formalizing and legitimizing property arrangements : first , the gradual recognition of the right to end the relationship ( with greater ease as social mobility increases and old class structures requiring protection of their pedigree collapse ) on the condition that the more vulnerable party economically be protected ; and the corollary idea that , given the possibility of separation and divorce , while the relationship subsists , certain mutual rights of support exist for the partners . |
| 2 | I suspect that part at least of the explanation lies in the pressures which structures of racism exert on the forms of resistance to it . |
| 3 | If a 75 per cent majority of creditors present in person or by proxy at a meeting of creditors agree to the proposals , then they become binding on all creditors and the insolvency practitioner who assisted the debtor or another such practitioner nominated by the creditors supervises the implementation of the proposals . |
| 4 | 95% of complaints are actually dealt with outside the courts ; 5% of cases get into the courts . |
| 5 | But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced . |
| 6 | The critique of functionalism led writers to stress the ‘ relative autonomy ’ of the capitalist state , manifested in its existence as a set of institutions separate from the classes of civil society . |
| 7 | Crystals of gypsum grow within the pores of the rock where they exert mechanical stress , creating tiny fractures which eventually cause the stonework to crumble . |
| 8 | All these different kinds of thinking appear in the examples that follow . |
| 9 | in crumbling gloves of crap pray at the drains |
| 10 | A further set of influences relate to the materials themselves . |
| 11 | This has two implications : any disclosures of uncertainties belong in the accounts , not in the audit report ; and there needs to be an accounting standard defining what disclosures are required before there can be an auditing standard . |
| 12 | More than 35 per cent of pilots die between the ages of 55 and 59 compared with an average 18 per cent , said the British Airline Pilots ' Association . |
| 13 | He had a great genius , first of all , for making a kind of recitative fit into the characteristics of his aria style . |
| 14 | All manner of possibilities exist as the examples in Figure 5.5 show . |
| 15 | The Royal Commission ( Highlands and Islands ) of 1892 spent several days here and the Minutes of Evidence tell about the conditions of crofting , what was grown , yields of the crops , and their stock . |
| 16 | The Royal Commission ( Highlands and Islands ) of 1892 spent several days here and the Minutes of Evidence tell about the conditions of crofting , what was grown , yields of the crops , and their stock . |
| 17 | Altogether none of these changes really recognise that the majority of families depend on the earnings of both husband and wife , even if the wife 's contribution in most instances is smaller . |
| 18 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |
| 19 | Thus , two huge ‘ bulges ’ of water appear in the oceans , one facing towards the Moon and another facing away from it . |
| 20 | Just as the statements of attainment reflect the experience and predilections of subject working groups , so the sequences in Profiles of Development depend on the authors ' underlying theory of teaching rather than any inexorable path of learning . |
| 21 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 22 | A larger group of people stand on the outskirts surveying the spectacle and we join them . |
| 23 | From a Marxist perspective , systems of stratification derive from the relationships of social groups to the means of production . |
| 24 | By this valley of the Glen water Douglas had surely intended to make his way back to Kelso , for he had brought his army out of the cleft of Wooler close under the hills , bearing west , and only when they were clear of the town and close to Homildon village had they become aware of the English army drawn up facing them , closing this route , and in a position also to deny them access to the more easterly route by the Till . |
| 25 | Some 800 grams of plutonium lie in the sediments of the Mururoa lagoon , according to official estimates . |
| 26 | Are these categories of thought manifest in the languages of advocacy and judgment within public law ? |
| 27 | As we saw back in section 12.5 , the building-up of reserves counts as a deficit ( an outflow from the balance of payments account to the reserves account ) . |
| 28 | Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender . |
| 29 | Studies on the effects of medical healing of oesophagitis suffer from the drawbacks of small numbers and the fact that some of them have included in their analysis patients who showed improvement in rather than complete healing of oesophagitis . |
| 30 | The principles of agency apply to the acts of partners . |