Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 32 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 33 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 34 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 35 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 36 | Sources close to the KIO say the civil suit in Britain has no bearing on separate , and so far unsuccessful , criminal cases against many of the same defendants in Spain . |
| 37 | At the moment , at secondary level any school 's review of a National Curriculum plan has two main imponderables - namely how to organise keystage 4 from fourteen to sixteen in a way which accommodates choice and avoids boredom and alienation amongst those with the least attainment in the compulsory core and foundation subjects in the first three keystages . |
| 38 | In March 1952 Soviet statesmen suggested a unification of Germany in exchange for its non-participation in coalitions or alliances directed against any of the former wartime allies and in 1954 Molotov more clearly presented the idea of neutralising Germany . |
| 39 | Equally , it went through many of the same traumas as Britain in the 1960s and 1970s while the Thatcher crusade for the market-led economy found an echo not only in Reagan 's America , but in France , Australia , Spain , and even social-democratic Sweden . |
| 40 | Despite its undoubted success , IDG has lost parts of its core home market for many of the same reasons it has succeeded abroad . |
| 41 | As in the 1950s and 1980s , and for many of the same reasons , Labour 's ‘ forward march ’ seemed far from guaranteed . |
| 42 | Increasingly firms from developing countries are extending abroad , for many of the same reasons that earlier prompted the moves of developed country multinationals . |
| 43 | Braque was dissatisfied with traditional perspective for many of the same reasons as Picasso . |
| 44 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 45 | The similarity of the central flower in mosaic 7 with that in the same position in mosaic C is more compelling . |
| 46 | I do n't see any problem with this as a former chairman of planning , and I do n't think any other one would . |
| 47 | This means that people end up with some of the same players , but I do n't think there 's many teams that end up identical ( I mean there are 7000 odd teams in this one ) . |
| 48 | It 's another place which needs treating — if you like with some of the same rules you would apply inside . |
| 49 | It was being driven by a very po-faced Englishman with another of the same ilk beside him and the car was spotlessly clean . |
| 50 | Even if you are replacing a basin with another in the same position , it is unlikely that you will be able to use the existing tap connectors . |
| 51 | And , if you want to press the architectural simile a little , the many variations on a helical theme ( with their emphasis on a set of rules of proportion ) represent a style that is unmistakably classical , with much of the same appeal . |
| 52 | But with all of the many options , there are still a number of craters and unexploded mines that need to be avoided , whether restructuring or , instead , a lender is to take control with a view to minimising loss . |
| 53 | Perlite : A volcanic material like vermiculite and with many of the same properties . |
| 54 | Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism . |
| 55 | This cash alternative can be used to obtain a new Vauxhall under ‘ Choices ’ with many of the same advantages of a company car . |
| 56 | The North American pennyroyal ( Hedeoma pulgeogioides ) is a quite different plant but with many of the same characteristics as Mentha pulegium ; it has a strong minty smell and an Indian folk medicine was used as an intestinal irritant and an abortion-causing agent , as well as an insect repellent . |
| 57 | The main link , he believes , is on the research side , with many of the same compounds being used as intermediates . |
| 58 | So IBM is publicly sticking to OS/2 , though it is also quietly hedging its bets by incorporating into its grand scheme other products with many of the same capabilities . |
| 59 | The restructuring school replies with many of the same points as in the decentralization debate . |
| 60 | In Vietnam , it was the same argument , and with many of the same features , that underlay the nature of the French Union . |