Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than critical accounts of class or ‘ race ’ , feminism is currently an important vehicle for bringing into psychology the social questions which the discipline skates over . |
| 2 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 3 | One would think placing speed humps in a road and narrowing the junction would result in improved safety even after taking into consideration an anticipated increase in traffic . |
| 4 | The magistrates have now called a pre-sentence report -- and he 'll be summoned back to court for sentencing on November the Ninth . |
| 5 | It is seen as extending horizons , the means for communicating between generations the accumulated wisdom of a culture , offering opportunities to engage in more abstract context-independent learning . |
| 6 | In planning its programme the Association emphasized its international objectives advertising , for example , from as early as 1924 , annual holidays at two centres in the USSR : a ‘ unique opportunity to experience the USSR 's great natural beauty , priceless and world famous works of art , gigantic collective farms and the thrill of seeing in progress the greatest social experiment in the world 's history . ’ |
| 7 | The ‘ fundamental difficulty at the present time ’ , he continued , ‘ seems to be the impossibility of forecasting with confidence the future lines of social organization . ’ |
| 8 | The dangers of perpetuating in power a weakened and uncertain Conservative Party , set alongside the progress Labour has made in modernising itself , justify by a fine margin the risks of a change . ’ |
| 9 | Rather , being quasi-research activities , they are a means of promoting in students the higher-order thinking and reflection that are characteristic of a higher education . |
| 10 | At the time of going to press a fourth PC World was due to open at Staples Corner . |
| 11 | At the time of going to press the working party 's document is still awaited . |
| 12 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 13 | Just as it is counter-productive to separate education into individual subject areas , so too is the act of considering in isolation the four areas discussed . |
| 14 | The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail . |
| 15 | He quotes the psychologist C.R. Gallistel , whose position is close to Gray 's : ‘ There is no way of discriminating in advance the waste-of-time experiments from the illuminating ones with anything approaching certainty . ’ |
| 16 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 17 | The role of speaker variables in sociolinguistic theory was assessed , and the practical difficulties of putting into operation the social class and network variables in different types of community was explored . |
| 18 | to re-affirm the principle , inherent in the content and design of the Modular Course , of offering to students a broad-based , flexible course of study in which they participate actively through choice of fields , within fields and of study outside their main field . |
| 19 | The arguments against putting through Parliament a blatant twisting of the general law , which would smell only too strongly of a corrupt bargain , were overwhelming . |
| 20 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 21 | More importantly , the ‘ Proposals For Printing by Subscription The Poetical Works , Serious and Humourous , Of Mrs. Leapor , lately Deceased ’ finally appeared bearing the date January 1 , 1746–7 . |
| 22 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 23 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 24 | They therefore constitute a significant historical source , above all in bringing to life the British community in Calcutta . |
| 25 | And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science . |
| 26 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 27 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 28 | Before going to China the Indonesian delegation went to Japan for Emperor Akihito 's enthronement on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 29 | It can only be proceeded with with the government 's consent , and before going into committee the appropriate Minister has to tell the House that the proposed spending has the government 's approval . |
| 30 | However , in calling for revisions the Supreme Soviet backed acceleration of the introduction of market reforms . |