Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G.J. Warnock , a distinguished post-war philosopher , offers a strange analysis of seeing which allows no place for judgement nor even the capability of it , as was the case with our driver , and which would include both the dog and the infant . |
| 2 | No-one in the United States Rugby Union had a clue about coverage and neither the union nor the magazine was ever sent a press release . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes was the time allocated for lunch and then the afternoon was taken up with being fitted with a uniform . |
| 4 | Recognising the inherent flexibility of microelectronics-based technologies it seeks to influence not only the rate of change but also the choice and design of new technology and associated systems of working . |
| 5 | Scheilenberg waited , desperate for a cigarette , but aware also of how totally Himmler disapproved of smoking and then the door opened and Rossman appeared with another man . |
| 6 | Also , step back from engagement , never forward ; an exciting bout generates a great deal of noise and sometimes the opponent does n't hear the referee 's call to stop the bout . |
| 7 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 8 | Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee . |
| 9 | The bookkeeping for this inter-fund transfer is a potential source of difficulty because strictly the transaction generates two double-entries . |
| 10 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 11 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 12 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 13 | They show a continuing collapse in inflation and that can only help the competitiveness of industry and thereafter the growth of the economy and the creation of jobs . |
| 14 | Mr Shultz had been an economics professor , the Nixon administration 's man in charge of labour and then the economy , and subsequently a top executive at the Bechtel Corporation , an international construction giant . |
| 15 | In front , southwards and seawards , there was a stretch of gravel and then the ground fell away abruptly down to the sea . |
| 16 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 17 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 18 | For some authors perspective provides both the laws of perception and also the key to the true and rational representation of objects . |
| 19 | Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts . |
| 20 | Tennyson in Morte d'Arthur again creates similar types of emotion because again the poem was prompted by the death of his best friend Arthur Hallam . |
| 21 | At their cheapest video links can be made with £35,000 of equipment and twice the cost of a phone call . |
| 22 | At the heart of the problem of using statistics lies the method of compilation and also the meaning of the terms used . |
| 23 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |
| 24 | Perhaps the general absence of corals from near large river mouths is partly the result of sediment and partly the result of low salinities . |
| 25 | The surface would have suffered saturation bombardment during the final stages of formation but either the surface was too soft to preserve these craters , as indicated by the degradation of the oldest craters , or the surface was somehow ‘ decratered ’ . |
| 26 | This is one of the dangers of licensing and obviously the licensee will have to be chosen with great care . |
| 27 | We live in a day when not only the gift of prophecy but also the ministry of the prophet is being restored to the church . |
| 28 | Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states . |
| 29 | He refines his argument in the light of evidence that nowadays the demand curve for a company 's stock is extremely elastic : ‘ [ t ] hus even large purchases of stock will not necessarily have an immediate and noticeable effect on its price since other stocks are seen as perfect substitutes . ’ |
| 30 | Er to an application with nature a and I I wondered if the , if this gentleman regular planning er could describe how exactly the responsibility for all this application er which splits down between ourselves er inspector of pollution and indeed the Secretary of State . |