Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this lack of actual power , their influence can be significant but it varies greatly both between authorities and with the type of development concerned . |
| 2 | These standards vary both between cultures and within a culture over time — part of the sociologist 's ( and the historian 's ) job is to try to find out why . |
| 3 | Information on exposure was considered up until the time of diagnosis for cases and until the date of diagnosis of the corresponding case for controls . |
| 4 | Dr Charles Suckling , formerly General Manager ( Research and Technology ) at ICI , provided a sharp mind and clarity of thought invaluable both when we discussed our assumptions about values and in the final drafting stages . |
| 5 | This together with their long continuance in flower , has justly render 'd them the most valuable of all the sorts of flowering shrubs … the great Variety of different Sorts of Roses make a collection of Flowers , either for Basons or in the Garden , without any other additional mixture and their Scent , being the most inoffensive Sweet , is generally esteemed . |
| 6 | There should be a registration system for nannies and in the meantime , there should be a public awareness scheme to make parents more careful about who they employ . |
| 7 | You have to remember that all work assigned within the group is organized as projects and as a service organization no two of our projects are identical . |
| 8 | In August the Slovene delegation to the Skupština launched a strong criticism of the new system , which , it maintained ( EP , 24 August 1987 ) , had ‘ irrefutably shown for a year and a half that it is inefficient , and that the centralization of foreign exchange , the administrative allocation of import entitlements , and priority for the servicing of debts have brought disastrous results for exports and for the inflow of foreign exchange ’ . |
| 9 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 10 | People buy computers or computer-controlled products not just for offices but for a host of other places such as factories and homes . |
| 11 | If you go in the loo there 's well for months or during the summer hours counting how many moths was on the window sill and flies , you know , they sort of got more each week when you went and the cobwebs it 's wonderful ! |
| 12 | The application of such legal rules as those concerned with implied terms and frustration will often be uncertain , creating scope for disputes as to the extent of the parties ' rights and liabilities , costing valuable time and money . |
| 13 | Tourism Officer Bill Breakell says ‘ This is good news , both for visitors and for the environment . |
| 14 | This book treats cooking neither as a mystery for initiates nor as a skill only the mentally deficient will not have mastered intuitively . |
| 15 | Over the top of the pass there is a long descent through plantations and along a hillside into the fertile valley of Glen More , a quiet cultivated strath where a few farms keep their pastures in good heart , contrasting with the shaggy heights around . |
| 16 | The monarch thus became formally dependent on Parliament for consent to the raising of taxes and for the passage of legislation . |
| 17 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 18 | The example here is for a self-employed professional who charges for time spent on a number of projects and at a variety of rates . |
| 19 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 20 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 21 | Under an agreement reached on March 2 , 1990 , between the CPD and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Democrática Independiente — UDI ) , representatives of pro-Aylwin parties would occupy the posts of president of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate . |
| 22 | Society seeks to rectify the effects of this divergence of private and social interests by imposing limits or prohibitions on certain kinds of emissions or on the use of polluting processes ; other techniques , such as taxing the production of harmful wastes , are also available to force companies to ‘ internalise ’ the full costs of its activities . |
| 23 | The third form of patronage is again distinct , in that it is concerned less with the direct retaining and commissioning of artists than with the provision of some kind of social protection or recognition . |
| 24 | Detailed recommendations included : that every school should have a policy for ‘ language across the curriculum ’ and a suitably qualified teacher to support it , and that LEAs should appoint special advisers to support the schools ; that there should be screening procedures to identify language difficulties at an early stage , and specialist assistance available at both school and LEA level for those in need ; that language in education should form part of initial training for every teacher ; that in-service education in reading and language should be expanded ; and that a system of monitoring be set up , using new instruments to assess a wider range of attainments than in the past and establishing new criteria for literacy . |
| 25 | It is measured in the repossession of houses and in the lack of new house starts . |
| 26 | There is the matching and retrieval capabilities of information retrieval systems , the document segmentation and word indexing of free text products , the display of mark-up languages , the layouts and layers to be found in the Office Document Architecture , the use of metadata for data exchange , and the application of a body of rules as in the field of AI and expert systems . |
| 27 | The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life . |
| 28 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 29 | This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act . ’ |
| 30 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |