Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gairns noted that proprieties were properly observed : ‘ a separate entrance to this department direct from the Stratford Road enables the girls to enter after and leave before the male employees . |
| 2 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 4 | ‘ It shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that — ( a ) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee , being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties , or a combination of those and any toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties , of that nuclear matter ; and ( b ) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the licensee 's responsibility — ( i ) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter ; or ( ii ) from any waste discharged ( in whatever form ) on or from the site , cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee . ’ |
| 5 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 6 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 7 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 8 | Another reason for the prominence of And waited in the above example is that it repeats verbatim information that has already been established in the previous sentence . |
| 9 | The declaration stated that the testator in his lifetime ( in consideration that the plaintiff would marry Ellen Nicholl ) agreed with and promised the plaintiff , then unmarried , in the terms of and contained in the following letter : August 11 , 1838 , Gray 's Inn |
| 10 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 11 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 12 | Yet here the counsellor faces the problem of whether to delve into the difficult past , or to leave it alone . |
| 13 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 14 | In this book Nash brings together those works of popular fiction ( hereafter popfiction ) , which are traditionally conceived of as lying outside the literary canon and linguistic theories pertaining to discourse analysis and the stylistic analysis of fiction . |
| 15 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 17 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 18 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 19 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 20 | Good music resembles good speech : a sentence needs to work towards a main point and then decline before beginning again , while in a whole speech we have to prepare for and build towards the main point of the argument . |
| 21 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 22 | Twist our arms and we 'll plump for his brilliantly-executed diatribe against the somewhat larger rock acts currently doing the rounds : ‘ Gim me something small and poisonous , with teeth , born out of the gutter , ’ oozed The Ig , eyes bulging as if strapped to the electric chair . |
| 23 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 24 | Energy radiating from one focus is reflected by a hyperbola as if to radiate from the other focus . |
| 25 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 26 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 27 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 28 | An order made by a court in any part of the United Kingdom in bankruptcy proceedings can be enforced in any other part of the United Kingdom as if made by the corresponding court in that other part except in so far as the order relates to property situated there ( unless the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor make provision for this ) ( s 426(1)-(3) ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Hand In Glove ’ , as if written in the euphoric condition of a new found love affair , holds all the ecstasy of that irrational condition with a typical defeatist twist in the tail . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts . |