Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 2 | Wells concludes that " adolescents and adults , faced with a new linguistic environment , can adapt their speech to a certain extent by modifying the phonetic realisation of their phonemes ; but they do not on the whole succeed in acquiring new phonological oppositions or in altering the distributional constraints on their phonology " ( Wells 1973 : 118 ) . |
| 3 | Lung complaints from working in foul , damp mines or from inhaling the sulphurous fumes from the smelting mills were widespread . |
| 4 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 5 | Roby was worried that through linking the four Iranians to the British hostages , the Iranian government was preparing the ground for announcing that the Britons , too , were dead . |
| 6 | For too long the modernization of the appellate courts has been geared towards the management of case loads rather than with equipping the appellate judges better for the task of the development of legal rules . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 8 | One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning . |
| 9 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 10 | The central point is that by controlling the moving pictures of dissent , governments believe that they can not only minimize the dissent itself but also completely remove the major source of criticism . |
| 11 | Alice questioned uneasily , conscious of the fact that this man belonged to a society whose conventions differed greatly from her own and that by questioning the moral issues , she sounded unworldly , unsophisticated . |
| 12 | The Chancellor hopes that by delaying the worst aspects of the Budget — value added tax on domestic fuel , national insurance increases — and stimulating the housing market and industry , recovery will be helped . |
| 13 | Out , Such , and Between represent the first steps in Christine Brooke-Rose 's ongoing exploration of the complex relations between subjectivity and the discursive matrix in which it is embedded . |
| 14 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 15 | We are grateful to our union for making this possible , and for sponsoring the retired members in this way ever since . |
| 16 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 17 | In addition , it is responsible for formulating the policy for dealing with the various kinds of applications ( subject to the directions of the Bar Council and the Inns ' Council ) and for revising the Consolidated Regulations as and when necessary . |
| 18 | Fair play to Ian Broudie for putting his trademark sparkle on the music and for letting the loony parts lie , the way that ‘ Monster Mouth ’ is Jim Bob after getting his throat sorted by Tona De Brett , and how the chorus of ‘ Too Jung ’ is a saucy steal from The Smiths ' ‘ London ’ . |
| 19 | If they respectfully withdraw from involvement in village affairs they find themselves branded as ‘ stand-offish ’ or ‘ jumped-up ’ ; if they participate fully in the life of the village they are accused of ‘ taking over ’ and of telling the local inhabitants how to run their own community . |
| 20 | ‘ Others have made the mistake of asking for respect for their traditions and languages and of claiming the human rights that are due to them — including the right of access to the mass media ’ . |
| 21 | I argued the advantages of establishing a Unit based on the principle of the fullest exploitation of surprise and of making the minimum demands on man-power and equipment . |
| 22 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |
| 23 | Many modern commentators , from Burke , Hamilton and Madison to the present day , have frankly seen the device of representation as a means of limiting popular participation and control , and of retaining the day-to-day powers of government in the hands of a ( preferably enlightened ) elite . |
| 24 | Thus Euravia secured the job of completely dismantling several dozen Conway engines , of identifying all the parts that could be reused ( or repaired — in which case the machining was put out to subcontractors , mainly local firms ) and of returning the salvaged parts to source . |
| 25 | Social Darwinism , with its emphasis on the survival of the fittest and chance variation , denied the effects of will , conscious planning and human agency in evolution , and of altering the fixed characteristics of different groups or races . |
| 26 | In highlighting gender differences in deviance , there is the risk of overplaying such dimensions and of confirming the very stereotypes that one is attacking in curriculum materials . |
| 27 | ‘ School ’ , he writes , seemed to have one aim , ‘ to keep us out of the air and from following the normal pursuits of the fields … |
| 28 | I have the advantage that , after the first hearing and before seeing the Parliamentary materials , I had reached the conclusion , in agreement with Vinelott J. and the Court of Appeal , that the revenue 's submissions were correct . |
| 29 | The fundamentals of construction are basically the same , however , and before discussing the two methods of weaving in detail , it is important to clarify some universal weaving terms . |
| 30 | Research on the participation of the public in general or clients in particular tends to centre around the form of participation involved ( inputs ) and its effect on the change agent and action systems ( processes , ‘ thruputs ’ ) , but little attention is paid to the results of participation ( outputs ) in general , and in achieving the specific goals of the activity involved . |