Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers . |
| 3 | The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) . |
| 4 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 5 | They have erm in breaking new situations , if there is something big going on , you know , or during the democratic convention or whatever it is , or this Iraq thing , the anchors stay around the studio and then maybe do a replay , so to speak . |
| 6 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 7 | At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp . |
| 8 | Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then . |
| 9 | Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ? |
| 10 | ( 2 ) At or after the preliminary appointment if there be one , the arbitrator shall fix a date for the dispute to be heard ( unless the parties consent to his deciding it on the statements and documents submitted to him — an unusual course not usually acceptable to the parties or the district judge ) and he shall give such directions regarding the steps to be taken before and at the hearing as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable . |
| 11 | There is little talk of film as ‘ film ’ , television as ‘ television ’ or of the two forms as different but connected social processes . |
| 12 | At the time , and indeed until much later , I had no knowledge of Mrs Castle 's objections or of the many discussions that had taken place on this subject at government level . |
| 13 | Clearly he was not an opponent of royal authority , or of secular policies , or of the warlike activities that these policies required , or even of Rufus himself . |
| 14 | ‘ The court shall not be bound to allow the appeal on the ground merely of misdirection , or of the improper admission or rejection of evidence , unless in the opinion of the court substantial wrong or miscarriage has been thereby occasioned . |
| 15 | Dr Glasser holds that alcoholism is a very real , concrete , disease rather than a disease of the human spirit or of the abstract senses but his understanding of alcoholism , based upon his practical experience as a general clinical psychiatrist , with no specific interest in the subject of alcoholism more than in any other , again fits closely with the expressed understanding in " Alcoholics Anonymous " and the experience of treatment centres using the Minnesota Method . |
| 16 | ‘ Reserve stock , describes a closed access part of a library located in or near the same building as the open access collections . |
| 17 | Sadness intensifies the perceptions of the eyes so that the inner eyes see a new form of beauty like Rimbaud or like the deaf Beethoven or the blind Homer and Milton . |
| 18 | Or into the small money-box that each child had . |
| 19 | Of much greater significance , however , is the skyline of the fells rising to the east , where above the 2000-ft contour and barely a mile apart two important rivers have their beginnings — the Eden , destined to flow north to the Solway Firth , and the Ure , bound eastwards for Wensleydale and ultimately the North Sea . |
| 20 | ( e ) a financial or other professional adviser ( including a stockbroker ) with its client in respect of the shareholdings of the adviser and persons controlling , controlled by or under the same control as the adviser ( except in the capacity of an exempt market-maker ( see para 7.7 below ) ) ; and |
| 21 | John Major 's inquiry should be held in public , not behind closed doors or with the usual excuse that publication would ‘ not be in the public interest ’ . |
| 22 | Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured . |
| 23 | Our minds ca n't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in , but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols . |
| 24 | An application to the bishop for permission may be met with either incomprehension or with the calm statement that there is already a church in the neighbouring parish . |
| 25 | It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability ! |
| 26 | This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance . |
| 27 | Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish . |
| 28 | Sent off no less than 20 times in his career , Johnson is a surprisingly quiet and tender man who lashed out at opponents , either on the spur of the moment or in the heart-felt belief that rational behaviour was for lesser talents . |
| 29 | Persons disabled by war or in the armed forces and those disabled at work as a result of injury or prescribed industrial disease have for many years enjoyed reasonable financial provision . |
| 30 | But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death . |