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

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1 But realistically it is hard to predict anything other than a 100 per cent success rate for the All Blacks in Ireland .
2 Capped for the All Blacks against France about six years ago , McPherson , 30 , actually brought the birth certificates of his Scottish grand-parents with him , but much to his regret he has gone un-noticed by the Scottish selectors .
3 This preference is shown up in growing governmental preference for the many variants of NFI , in which a local enterprise associates with a foreign partner ( or sometimes with two as in Brazil where Tintas Renas teamed up with both ICI and Dupont to produce paint for the local market ) .
4 Women also created important opportunities for the many tasks of childcare to be handled through routines ( see page 36 ) , another example where what is good for the child can be good for the parent .
5 As a responsive composite ‘ biomaterial ’ , a biosensor is rather special , not only in the complex , multiple alliance of the materials in any individual device , but also in the wide range of materials that must be considered for the many types of transduction systems .
6 The families , she said , had asked her to express their gratitude for the warm and caring support from everyone there ; they were grateful , too , for the many messages of support and sympathy coming from outside Orkney .
7 ‘ We hope the gifts will help to relieve the boredom for the many children like Paul who have to attend the clinic regularly for treatment , ’ said Sharon .
8 Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach .
9 In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions .
10 Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’
11 Do you always go for the same kinds of things ?
12 those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ;
13 It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago .
14 Moreover , ideological divisions have frequently led to union rivalries which can undermine strike action , especially since the unions compete for the same grades of employees ; in BR a single union can in most cases bring out most or all members of a grade .
15 Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) .
16 A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics .
17 This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house .
18 Second , there are interior sources which have only ‘ fired ’ once during the several years of observations .
19 During the Pleistocene period , Britain 's climate ranged from warm-temperate to very cold during the several advances of ice sheets .
20 For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial .
21 All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography .
22 Kevin advises ‘ When choosing frames do n't forget about the many types of lenses available .
23 She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies .
24 Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate .
25 Going to a built-in wardrobe he opened it and flicked through the many articles of clothing hanging there .
26 The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea .
27 None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times .
28 I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’
29 Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning .
30 After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends .
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