Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 2 | So are the many coloured statues that rise either arrogantly , gracefully , or humorously above the fountains that are discovered in quiet corners and sleepy squares . |
| 3 | Investment business While a summary of the Solicitors ' Investment Business Rules 1990 may be found in Chapter 12 , it is appropriate at this point to note that every firm which carries on investment business within the meaning of the Financial Services Act 1986 is required to be authorised either through a Self-Regulating Organisation ( SRO ) such as FIMBRA or through a Recognised Professional Body ( RPB ) or directly from the Securities and Investments Board . |
| 4 | It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution . |
| 5 | Fears about geriatric jets falling apart or out of the skies and stricter noise regulations force airlines to order replacements . |
| 6 | Each of these areas impacts directly or indirectly on the structures and regulations surrounding the media , on the work of the media , and on its degrees of freedom . |
| 7 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |
| 8 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 9 | The vehicles started to move off to the washdown point and thence to the trains that would take them home . |
| 10 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 11 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 12 | They 'd be going up and down between the aisles as well . |
| 13 | But at the end , we are alone , and only in the lives and memories of our children , our friends and our work can we hope to be remembered . |
| 14 | She needed to live his life with him , if only through the eyes and ears of her dearest friend . |
| 15 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 16 | Through the intercession of the Serbs in Vojvodina he made contact with the representative of the European powers , and especially with the Austrians and Russians . |
| 17 | This Lenten time we focus our thoughts on the people of Africa and especially on the women and children of that Continent . |
| 18 | Yeah and especially on the fractions and the different types of fractions but you just find o found out what makes ninety have n't you ? |
| 19 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 20 | Evidence is being sought in surviving buildings , in records such as photographs , drawings , and documents , and especially in the goods that people have had in their houses . |
| 21 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |
| 22 | The problem with approaching children 's reading from a ‘ classics ’ approach — identify the best , the books ‘ of transparently permanent greatness ’ ( Rosenheim , 1980 , p.5 1 ) and give them to the children — is that it places emphasis on the book , on the literary work , and not on the needs and tastes of the individual reader . |
| 23 | … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve . |
| 24 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |
| 25 | Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue . |
| 26 | Governors should then be introduced to the budget in some detail , particularly the major headings under which spending is planned and thus to the benefits or problems raised by this allocation . |
| 27 | Moreover , there is not so much to smell when you are flying high up and away from the scents and aromas that cling to the Earth — or even if , like man , your nose stands at a height of five or six feet , rarely bending towards the ground . |
| 28 | To sum up , a number of interlocking factors have operated to shift the focus of concern about the impact of technological change on the quality of working life towards physical hazard from using the equipment ( eg radiation and eye damage from VDUs , equipment design ) and away from the ways that software , job design and work organisation could produce jobs that workers experienced as stressful , fatiguing and dehumanising . |
| 29 | Instead of the great epic being told over and over by the bards and preachers of the word , we are offered by the critics snatches of data to be dissected , truncated , and — most scandalously of all — ‘ authenticated ’ . |
| 30 | One of his assistants had worked slowly and laboriously through the records and come up with half-a-dozen prints which looked at least similar to the ones taken from Paula Wilson . |