Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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1 | What I want to suggest is that far from representing a glorification of a golden age , confident and stable in its social organisation , The Faerie Queene exemplifies a very uneasy social and cultural fabric and I want to indicate some of the reasons for that unease . |
2 | Jacobus van Huysum ( c.1687–1740 ) brother of the famous Dutch flower painter , Jan ( 1682–1749 ) , lived at Chelsea from 1720 to 1740 and worked in the Physic Garden to provide some of the illustrations for John Martyn 's Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728–37 ) . |
3 | Mozart was anxious to receive another commission to write an opera ; he knew that there was a possibility that he might be asked to write one of the operas for the Naples carnival season , but as yet had had no confirmation . |
4 | From this we can go on to discover one of the rules for this sort of crime fiction . |
5 | The government subsequently decided not to accept any of the bids for Land Rover during April 1986 amid considerable political embarrassment . |
6 | The plaintiffs ' employee agreed to buy one of the paintings for £6,000 without asking any questions about the provenance of the paintings , or making any further inquiries about them . |
7 | Lacan offers us a new conception both of science and of truth , and asks us to abandon many of the procedures for verification or falsification on which the credibility of scientific enquiry traditionally rests . |
8 | This chapter will attempt to determine some of the reasons for this state of affairs and then will go on to suggest ways in which teachers can overcome these problems . |
9 | This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum . |
10 | Try to swap one of the hens for a proven cock . |
11 | Gower was even more stung to learn one of the reasons for his omission was that England play eight one-day internationals on tour . |
12 | And freed hostage Terry Waite was also on hand to present one of the awards for news coverage . |
13 | In what follows , I propose to examine some of the reasons for this , without going into a detailed exegetical discussion of the theories concerned , my purpose being merely to establish a sufficient platform for a phenomenological analysis , which is to follow . |
14 | In this chapter we will attempt to examine some of the reasons for the continued use of custodial sentences . |
15 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
16 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |
17 | The last edition of Network promised to reveal some of the plans for Clarence . |