Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar effect can lead to the summits of mountains in orogenic belts increasing in elevation as the incision of deep valleys between peaks causes unloading of the crust . |
| 2 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 3 | Thus the power of corporate managers vis-à-vis society is legitimated because they are perceived as experts wielding power for the benefit of society generally . |
| 4 | Miklós Mojzer addressed the problems of the art trade in Hungary , where as yet no lists exist for objects considered part of the national heritage , while Lubomir Slavicek focused on financial , management , and display problems at the National Gallery in Prague . |
| 5 | In McInnes v. Onslow Fane ( N.C. , 1978 ) a contrast was drawn between cases involving forfeiture of a licence , ( natural justice applied as there was a right to answer any allegations which had been brought ) , renewal cases ( where in view of the fact that a person 5 livelihood would be affected if the renewal was not granted , there is a legitimate expectation of being given a hearing ) , and initial applications where minimal standards of fairness apply . |
| 6 | Progress was rapid — but let us prefer to call it evolution , for Daguerreotypes achieved perfection of a kind ( even though the process fell into disuse after less than 20 years ) . |
| 7 | Together with ‘ efficiency ’ and good management principles has come the crying need for experts to take charge of every field . |
| 8 | Filling in between times necessitates recourse to the mid-year estimates of the Registrar-General which provide details of the numbers of people in each local authority , together with a breakdown of annual changes by natural change and migration components . |
| 9 | K. R. There were mainly annoying types of things — such as lads playing football in the street and that sort of thing , and the drunks coming out of the pub , and on the corner . |
| 10 | The event also provides a good time for parents to see evidence of the caring nature of the school and gain a flavour of the ethos and quality of relationships . |
| 11 | Such temperatures are best attained by the use of microrefrigerators using helium as the working fluid . |
| 12 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 13 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 14 | ‘ War in Val d'Orcia ’ is her dispassionate account of attempts to keep life on a local estate balanced between bellicose German troops , jumpy partisans , exhausted refugees , escaping British prisoners and the local Fascisti , during the appalling interlude following the fall of Mussolini . |
| 15 | Indeed , in most cases there is no effect at all on the premium as these sort of policies give cover of a type that will not result in a reduced premium just because a few people more or less are covered at any one time in a particular situation . |
| 16 | ‘ No , not really , ’ said Constance , and Scarlet felt herself concurring in an age-old belief that , when it came to the point , the closing of ranks took precedence over the wellbeing of the stranger within the gates . |
| 17 | A variety of activities took place in the buildings . |
| 18 | Marking sessions and discussions on the marking of investigations took place with the teachers as part of the project 's inquiry into procedures for assessing investigative mathematical work . |
| 19 | It was apparently a group of labourers seeking stone for a new engine house , whose opening of a barrow was witnessed , in his youth , by Mr. J. Harris of Liskeard . |
| 20 | The legal profession is not always entirely blameless in these matters , for there is often left in the minds of interested people the suspicion that , in the courts of law the scoring of points and the winning of cases takes precedence over the desire to administer justice and establish truth . |
| 21 | If you locked up one of these shawlies , as you were coming away from the Main Bridewell , you would usually find a deputation of shawlies coming running down the road . |
| 22 | A continuous series of meetings took place in the organisation with the objectives of : |
| 23 | APAP members in London — believed to be seriously disaffected by the association 's stance in the dispute — will be met by an executive member , Mr Peter Kenney , in the first of a series of meetings to rally support for the union amid threats of a revolt following the resignation of the 132-strong Hertfordshire chapter last week . |
| 24 | The controversial high-tech pyramid structure at the cliff top entrance to Whitby Spa could disappear as part of plans to improve sign-posting of the complex . |
| 25 | PEOPLE were urged yesterday to start taking showers instead of baths to avert disaster for the wildlife of rivers , lakes and wetlands as the country suffers its worst drought for 200 years . |
| 26 | Indeed one of the main reasons for the failure of Marxists to make headway amongst the Latin American working classes is that labour organisations in many of these countries were originally the creation of the state . |
| 27 | A number of parties took place during the race week , including a very good champagne reception most generously given by Mot et Chandon at the very comfortable four star Hôtel le Manège , which reopened in December under a dynamic new young management . |
| 28 | A book or set of books giving information about every branch of knowledge , or on one subject , with entries in alphabetical order . |
| 29 | The more normal situation is for every exchange of words to take place in a context which allows the verbal activity to be associated with other kinds of activity and other kinds of message . |
| 30 | Systems have used information about the orthography of words to select output from a pattern recogniser in various ways . |