Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many philosophers have spoken of this progress , identifying key stages in it , for instance the achievement of consciousness by animals or self-consciousness by humans . |
| 2 | In Poland for instance the approach to work is a much more leisurely one . |
| 3 | Some are densely concentrated in small areas , for instance the volume of amethyst beads , gold coin , garnet , rock crystal spheres and wheel-thrown pottery in Kent , which have Continental or Mediterranean sources . |
| 4 | Futures contracts do not require any carrying costs , for instance the loss of interest on money invested in margins , and so the futures price is higher than the spot price by Sr , the interest foregone by tying up £ S in the stock market . |
| 5 | The findings will test the generality of current models of visual reading , and will thus suggest whether and how previous reading skills , for instance the use of context and knowledge of spelling , can help people who have become blind to convert to reading by touch . |
| 6 | Witness for instance the use in car manufacture of self-tapping screws rather than nuts and bolts , the use of circlips instead of nuts to secure bolts , or plastic body sections and panels to reduce both body weight and manufacturing costs . |
| 7 | Laurent 's classic book of 1855 contained chemical equations like ours ; writing for instance the reaction of potassium carbonate and sulphuric acid as : |
| 8 | Take for instance the example of yew wood . |
| 9 | Even monitoring of the present is very imperfect , as witness the order of magnitude variations in estimates now current for deforestation rates . |
| 10 | Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services . |
| 11 | After pre-whitening the series of spot and futures prices , they looked for Granger causality ( see Chapter 8 ) between these series . |
| 12 | In the year after diagnosis the improvement in bowel symptoms was maintained but three further gastric and duodenal biopsies at four monthly intervals showed no improvement . |
| 13 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |
| 14 | He understood very well Keyes 's desire to investigate through poetry the subjects of pain and death , and his feeling of being in far closer communion with William Blake , William Wordsworth [ qq.v. ] , and Johann Schiller than with any living contemporaries . |
| 15 | A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners . |
| 16 | Now write as much as you can about Auntie the sort of person she was , what members of her family thought of her , what her niece realises about her at the end . |
| 17 | During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime . |
| 18 | They imbibed of necessity the belief in order and stability and , inevitably and as was intended , projected the same values on to the street people . |
| 19 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 20 | In the development through the years of adolescence the number of foreclosure pupils will diminish , hence the recruitment of boys into science would be cut . |
| 21 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 22 | Authority for this view is found in Lord MacNaghten 's judgment in the Nordenfeldt case where he said " Of course the quantum of consideration may enter into the question of the reasonableness of the contract " . |
| 23 | Of course the sense of occasion is heightened by this seasonal tide and many feel that here the Calvinist Kirk is at its very essence — grim , taciturn , with the minister perched in judgement on a wicked generation , like a hoodie craw in the pulpit . |
| 24 | Both find that life , and of course the activity of philosophy , is untenable without some standards of absolute truth , the canon of ‘ reason ’ , which can generate knowledge that can be held to be true regardless of perspective or context . |
| 25 | And of course the function of inactivation is to allow the membrane potential to recover after the channel 's open . |
| 26 | Thirdly , there is of course the benefit of hindsight , which always makes the critic 's job easier , and enables a view of ‘ women and film ’ in historical perspective against a backdrop of developments within feminist cultural analysis as a whole . |
| 27 | Of course the field of view is 3-dimensional , so in principle we need only state three of these four coordinates , but there is no point in discarding information and so we may as well keep them all . |
| 28 | Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life |
| 29 | Aye and of course the likes of milk tokens it Just like now , you know , they would come round the door and leave your milk there in the morning . |
| 30 | Fortunately the building suffered more injury than what the men did , thankfully , but obviously of course the building by insurance it would still , it was still a nasty shock for the owner occupier of the house . |