Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Union organises meetings of its members , presents a comprehensive entertainments programme on all sites , and provides funds for the many clubs and societies in the University , as well as offering a wide range of services to students . |
| 2 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |
| 3 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 4 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | During the many twists and turns in the film 's hectic plot RoboCop ( Murphy ) comes under fire from all sides , sustaining all manner of injuries . |
| 6 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 7 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 8 | After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow . |
| 9 | After a few gigs and demos in the late '80s , they eventually — with the help of local soulmates American Music Club — came to the attention of 4AD 's Ivo Watts-Russell , who , enraptured , put out six of these demos from 1989 –'90; as the ‘ Down Colorful Hill ’ album last September . |
| 10 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 11 | External aspects of religion such as temples , statues , reliefs and paintings of the many gods and goddesses , sacred object , writings and burial customs survive as a unique testimony to that religious experience but its inner meaning and significance are far more intangible . |
| 12 | That does not take account of the many closures and redundancies announced since the end of 1989-90 which have halved again the number of jobs in the north-west . |
| 13 | Quelch was inevitably involved in most of the many disputes and debates of the decades before 1914 ; and not only in Britain , for he was a constant attender at international conferences of the European Left . |
| 14 | During the evening , you can unwind in one of the many bars and restaurants ; there is even a disco ! |
| 15 | A very lazy way to spend a day in the sun , is to buy a ‘ day ’ ticket , and hop on and off the boats and in and out of the many cafes and restaurants dotted around the lake . |
| 16 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |
| 17 | The exhibition describes the architectural development of Edinburgh and how this was influenced by Europe , with illustrations and explanations of the many buildings and areas which make Edinburgh a truly European capital city — particularly Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh Castle , the Old Town , New Town , Royal Mile and the port of Leith . |
| 18 | Contrary to the popular myth of largely extempore worship , there is a more or less set liturgical pattern for most of the services of the former Congregationalists and Presbyterians , who , together with the Churches of Christ , form the United Reformed Church . |
| 19 | Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism . |
| 20 | Roughly , linguistic communication consists in the production of some external , publicly observable , acoustic phenomenon whose phonetic and syntactic structure encodes a speaker 's inner , private thoughts or ideas and the decoding of the phonetic and syntactic structure exhibited in such a physical phenomenon by other speakers in the form of an inner private experience of the same thoughts or ideas . |
| 21 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 22 | These two kinds of deictic usage contrast with the non-deictic usage of the same words or morphemes . |
| 23 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 24 | Good meadow hay consists of the same grasses and clovers as a good pasture . |
| 25 | He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration . |
| 26 | Better access to trade training courses : One of the few ways that prisoners can feel that some positive benefit has been gained from a sentence . |
| 27 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
| 28 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 29 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 30 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |