Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 His choices of ends require no appeal to principles , not even any verbalization , only the discerning of conflict between inclinations and self-alerting to the situation , after which , whether instantaneously or after protracted exploration , one inclination spontaneously prevails .
2 This briefing also discusses the important questions that alternative suppliers should be asked both about products and integration into the IBM environment .
3 In sharp contrast , research findings concerning the specific differences between animals and man in the mechanics of aggression are almost nonexistent ’ ( 1979 : 7 ) .
4 For what this might involve , the historian must rely on literary material , and Langland 's dialogue , between Piers and Hunger in the B text of Piers Plowman rings painfully true as a description of peasant hardship in the pre-potato age .
5 In fifty-odd years of high regard for Englishwomen and awe of the fortitude and grace he saw in them , he had never accepted their defiling hats .
6 My topic , I take it , is whether there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole .
7 Nine Turkish immigrants were treated in hospital for burns and shock after the attack .
8 I 'm still looking for shoes and bag for the wedding . ’
9 The draft order on the summons for directions and advertisement of the petition hearing will be lodged .
10 The scale of operations and seniority of the positions require qualified chemical engineers with substantial experience in the fine chemical or similar industry .
11 On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household .
12 Continued attack on the upstream sides of spurs and enlargement of the meander leads to a tendency for a break through at the neck of the spur , as it becomes thin ( Fig. 9.12A ) .
13 They have since developed a wide range of contacts and membership to the group is now by election .
14 The appeal followed numerous reports that Iraqi Government forces were committing these and other human rights violations following the recapture of cities and town in the northern Kurdish and southern Shi'a areas of the country .
15 The livret does not say whether the oboes in the first entrée are the same performers as the harmonie rustique that accompanies the récit , but for reasons having to do with economy of personnel and continuity in the staging , it seems likely that they were .
16 There was a lot of fights and bullying of the soft lasses .
17 The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the University of El Salvador argues that ,
18 In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency .
19 I 'd go , but the bike 's still full of ropes and stuff from the weekend and I might not get it in . ’
20 The early use of X-rays and radium for the treatment of cancer was very much a matter of trial and error .
21 Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 .
22 Jacobs [ 1989 ] adds the deficiencies of circularity of definitions and obsolescence to the above ; and argues that MRDs are only a piece of the solution to the lexical acquisition problem .
23 Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago .
24 The importance of investment in the enhancement of skills and knowledge in the workplace is foremost in the plans of the Trust through its focus on Commerce and Industry and its strong connection with the Chamber movement .
25 The combination of skills and commitment in a workforce can turn a company round from low to high performance .
26 The addition of icons and absence of the now-legendary ‘ Please Wait ’ messages are welcome surprises .
27 In recent months , thanks to several timely discoveries of bombs and equipment by the police , many hoped that tighter security could make last year 's bomb a one-off .
28 There are also a number of cases where the Commission has held that the banning of meetings and procession for a restricted period because of fears for public safety , such bans being under the democratic laws of a State , were not in contravention of the Convention .
29 At the ultrastructural level alterations of smooth muscle fibre included vacuolation , proliferation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum in the perinuclear region , disturbances in the distribution of myofilaments and electron-lucency of the myocyte cytoplasm .
30 This third route , does not attempt to integrate analogue sources of images and sound within the digital environment .
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