Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The ‘ fundamental difficulty at the present time ’ , he continued , ‘ seems to be the impossibility of forecasting with confidence the future lines of social organization . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | At the time of going to press a fourth PC World was due to open at Staples Corner . |
| 8 | At the time of going to press the working party 's document is still awaited . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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) . |
| 18 | They therefore constitute a significant historical source , above all in bringing to life the British community in Calcutta . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Government backing for the railways has halved to around £550 million in the 1980s and the new calculations of support have been struck before taking into account the estimated cost of safety measures demanded after the Clapham Junction disaster . |
| 23 | Brooke-Rose 's main objection to this model is that Greimas follows Lévi-Strauss in making of woman a silenced object of exchange whose signified has been repressed ( ravished ) into the unconscious ( elsewhere ) . |
| 24 | Accommodation was pretty rough-and-ready but the people were friendly and warm-hearted , and I took endless delight in exploring on foot the wild landscapes of lakes and forest , mountain waterfalls and paths as rich with alpine flowers as a medieval tapestry . |
| 25 | On Sept. 24 , Gamsakhurdia declared a state of emergency — to come into force the following day — because " a military and civilian putsch is under way in the republic " . |
| 26 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 27 | The all embracing structure of the nation as a family headed by the Emperor , made it impossible to challenge particular aspects of the social order without calling into question the ultimate authority of the Emperor . |
| 28 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 29 | On the one hand Michigan , contrary to the original agreement with teachers , released individual school results to the public without taking into account the individual circumstances of schools . |
| 30 | It notes that even without taking into account the current drought in the region and the effects of global warming , demand there will continue to exceed local supplies . |