Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the best hope for change lies in the failure of so many new drugs to make the grade . |
| 2 | The need for change hinges on the state of the city coffers . |
| 3 | The impetus for change comes from the Management Charter Initiative ( MCI ) , an employer-led pressure group which hopes eventually to transform all management qualifications into quantifiable ‘ competences ’ . |
| 4 | If the kingdom of Heaven is interpreted as the Christian community in Matthew 's Gospel , then the plea for patience applies to the community itself . |
| 5 | All is silent — the sun is set and as the branches of the woodland trees reflect in the gentle water of the pool I feel the whole of existence draw closer around me as my capacity for description dissolves into an experience of the infinite . |
| 6 | Information can be made available more easily through computer links without the need for a significant layer of intervening administrative bureaucrats or middle managers . |
| 7 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 8 | The case for Nucella depends on the synonymy of N.theobroma Roding with Buccinum lapillus L. ( Winkworth , 1932 ) . |
| 9 | The demand for money refers to the desire to hold money : to keep your wealth in the form of money , rather than spending it on goods and services or saving it by purchasing financial assets such as bonds or shares . |
| 10 | The increased demand for goods and services , however , leads to an increase in the output or prices of these goods and services , so that the nominal demand for money increases at every interest rate . |
| 11 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 12 | The demand for action comes in a week when John Bond has been advised to stay away from his former club , Burnley , for Shrewsbury 's FA Cup tie this afternoon because of fears of reprisals from angry Turf Moor fans . |
| 13 | The first training centre for refugee recruits to the Pioneer Corps was the Kitchener Camp at Richborough in Kent . |
| 14 | The key similarity for Freud lies in the dominance of unconscious processes both for infants and for early man . |
| 15 | Also , the constituents of the index do change as entry depends on the size of equity market capitalisation of each company ; a review takes place every three months . |
| 16 | He got up and , without much conviction , looked for blood stains on the upholstery . |
| 17 | For Marx on the other hand the difference is more material : the division of labour between branches exists on the basis of the interchange of products as commodities , whereas within the enterprise the specialised worker produces no commodities — ‘ It is only the common product of all the specialised workers that becomes a commodity ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | The opportunity for confusion arises from the use of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in a clearly unilateral sense followed by the word ‘ appropriation ’ ( describing what the appropriator has unilaterally done ) hypothetically linked to the idea of consent . |
| 19 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 20 | The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority . |
| 21 | It by no means follows from the fact that x is a recognised authority in a discipline or professional field that x has authority to teach . |
| 22 | Unfortunately no single governing body for hypnosis exists at the time of writing . |
| 23 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 24 | This is inappropriate because the burden of showing the reason for dismissal rests with the employer . |
| 25 | Most of what is known about Leapor derives from a letter by her friend and mentor , Bridget Freemantle , to a gentleman in London , probably John Duncombe though possibly John Blencowe . |
| 26 | Below : Wrapped up for winter walks along the canal , Clarissa wears a Gloverall duffel coat , £147.50 ; N+L ribbed polo-neck sweater , £47.99 ; Oasis wool-mix stirrup pants , £39.99 ; Russell & Bromley slip-on shoes , £89.50 . |
| 27 | The fact that is the recognition point for trespass depends on the knowledge that there are no other words beginning with tresp in the language . |
| 28 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 29 | Windows for Pens comes with a collection of pen tools . |
| 30 | The modifications of the quality of acid rain as it passes through soils depends on the soil properties , organic matter , microbial activity and underlying rock . |