Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 2 | The decision in Smith v Baker ( 1891 ) made it difficult for employers to rely on a volenti defence . |
| 3 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 4 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
| 5 | The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure . |
| 6 | The securities scandal — involving the secret reimbursement of favoured clients for losses sustained through the vagaries of the market — continued to expand during August . |
| 7 | Look for animals living in the tubes . |
| 8 | They argue that the fence , designed to reduce the spread of " foot-and-mouth " by separating cattle from buffalo herds , and to monopolise the north-western area for beef production , is unacceptable since it would cut across routes for animals migrating to the swamps during the dry season . |
| 9 | Ant plants are not necessarily found in nutrient-poor sites and many so-called ant-plant species sometimes have ants in them but sometimes do not , e.g. species of Aphanamixis and Chisocheton ( Meliaceae ) and many examples seem to show that the presence is due to ‘ casual ’ entrance through wounds suffered by the trees through damage by other animals or tree falls and so on . |
| 10 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 11 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 12 | Instead , nationalist argument and continual bickering between nation-states played on the fears and worries of the borderlands . |
| 13 | There was force in the Crown 's argument that , strictly , the making of a statement in circumstances in which a person had already been charged and , in part at least , was intending to speak about matters relating to the charges already put did not fall within paragraphs 12 , 13 and 2 of Annex D. However , the Code must be read as covering this situation . |
| 14 | But , uncompromising in their beliefs , the leaders of the CRREC chose to go their own way , negotiating directly with the Home Office for permits to bring over the children of strictly orthodox families . |
| 15 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 16 | The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series . |
| 17 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 18 | Over there , generations of pharaohs slept in the tombs , cut deep into the red cliffs of the valley . |
| 19 | If a 75 per cent majority of creditors present in person or by proxy at a meeting of creditors agree to the proposals , then they become binding on all creditors and the insolvency practitioner who assisted the debtor or another such practitioner nominated by the creditors supervises the implementation of the proposals . |
| 20 | Great groans and gnashing of teeth emitted from the ranks . |
| 21 | Two assemblages differ from this pattern in having deficits of both molars and incisors over the numbers of teeth lost from the jaws ( Table 3.9 ) . |
| 22 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 23 | 15.42 The list of activities suggested in the programmes of study , combined with the variety of suggested groupings , is wide in its implications . |
| 24 | The additional exercises certainly led to a greater use of patterns made by the dancers rolling or posturing over and on the floor . |
| 25 | The former , while mainly concerned with the technicalities of Treasury operations , made a number of proposals relating to the functions of senior civil servants . |
| 26 | Normalisation is a set of rules applied to the relations which simplifies the model . |
| 27 | A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified . |
| 28 | The ethical positivist is likely to seek the development of three broad directions ; first , the drafting and annunciation through the UN of a comprehensive set of rules applying to the relationships between states , including where necessary cognisance of those aspects of internal affairs which are of international significance . |
| 29 | As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields . |
| 30 | The cock-of-the-rock belongs to a group of birds known as the cotingas , closely related to the manakins . |