Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regional council leaders will argue that it can fulfil the twin aims of overall strategic planning for Highland and making local government more local by producing a scheme of decentralised decision-making and management . |
| 2 | Pluralism is insensitive , and inattentive , to the view from the bottom ; to the politics of the powerless ; to the ill-organised and unincorporated politics of movement , protest and riot ; and to the power of government and the state to rebuff demands for change and to destroy certain groups . |
| 3 | In 1921 she investigated differential operators in quantum mechanics by abstracting their essential properties , taking these properties as axioms and building all consequences thereupon . |
| 4 | This kind of desert is known as reg and covers vast areas . |
| 5 | The Halifax Building Society has also produced a booklet called Home Help for Widows , which has been compiled in conjunction with the National Association for Widows and gives practical advice on property matters . |
| 6 | He would pray for hours and memorize large sections of the Bible . |
| 7 | They acquired a reputation for ferocity and committed many atrocities . |
| 8 | Some of the problems related to the project which were identified through IS included : ( a ) The dichotomy in IS between teaching and testing specific learning skills as a foundation for other subjects , and fostering holistic , personal development among pupils . |
| 9 | Half of the farms visited kept cows for milk and showed high standards of production and grass conservation . |
| 10 | He had convictions for dishonesty and using threatening words and behaviour . |
| 11 | Alphabetical indexing languages specialize in establishing specific labels for subjects and providing direct access to individual subjects . |
| 12 | John Munroe , 35 , of Ablemarle Crescent , Scarborough , had his appeal against a three month sentence for theft and handling stolen goods dismissed after York Crown Court heard he was caught on film selling a stolen compact disc player . |
| 13 | Because of this , much of the empirical evidence on parent-child support betrays a sense of wariness and carefulness about offering and accepting such support , which is far removed from the idea that it is the most natural thing in the world for parents and children to support each other . |
| 14 | Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader 's interest . |
| 15 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 16 | Chief financial officer Frank Metz , 59 , is retiring and will be succeeded by returnee Paul Rizzo , who was elected a vice-chairman ; Jack Kuehler , 60 , gives up his post as president and becomes another vice-chairman . |
| 17 | Their capacity for organotypic development is retained after isolation and shortterm primary culture . |
| 18 | In countries like Egypt , instructions to workers to stay out of fields after spraying and to wear protective clothing are widely ignored , she said . |
| 19 | South Africa got to the extended West Indies tail , starting with wicket-keeper David Williams at number seven , just after tea and encountered little resistance after that . |
| 20 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 21 | He 'd come in after work and found two cans of baked beans in the cupboard . |
| 22 | In the afternoon I would propose that we meet briefly after lunch and receive any comments additional to papers that might go out beforehand . |
| 23 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 24 | Professor Paul Grout spoke after dinner and reminded all present of one of the essential purposes of a university : to provide bright young graduates for future employment . |
| 25 | This project is a full-scale investigation of the third and virtually unknown type of probate document , the probate account , which was filed a year after death and listed all deductions from an estate . |
| 26 | Up in cooler Scottish climes it 's time to start planning for winter and laying good foundations for next year 's displays , says Sid Robertson |
| 27 | Set carriage for hold and knit 1 row over these stitches in work and cast them off . |
| 28 | Yeltsin argues that his aim , contested by parliament , of holding the referendum on who should ultimately rule the country and also on a new constitution , is in fact to save democracy for Russia and to safeguard economic reform . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 30 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |