Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Would it be better to go for an automatic or power steering now ?
2 Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage .
3 It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective .
4 The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world .
5 To quote Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) again : ‘ The moves beyond Rayner to the FMI represent attempts to work within the political and organisation system , rather than against it and to couch debate in terms of means rather than ends ’ .
6 The following appointments have been made to the Judicial Studies Board : Mr Justice Johnson , in succession to Lord Justice Butler-Sloss , ( and will also serve as co-Chairman of the Civil and Family Committee ) ; Judge Oddie , in succession to Judge White , ( and will continue to serve as a member of the Civil and Family Committee ) ; Mr Registrar Angel , a Family Division Registrar , ( who will also continue to serve on the Civil and Family Committee ) .
7 Indeed a prime aim of the museum is to inspire a new interest in archaeology and in the biblical era ; in addition to hosting travelling shows the museum intends to function as an educational and study centre .
8 Like modern reform Judaism , it wished to discard laws of purity of time , space and bodily fluids and to focus on the ethical and universalist aspects of the biblical faith .
9 The decision to proceed with the hydro-electric and irrigation project has been taken despite the fact that essential funding from the EC has yet to be approved .
10 There is a convincing body of research indicating that people are educated and trained more effectively if they are able to interact with the educational or training medium .
11 There are two other documents you have to consider in the monetary and evaluation exercise to see how successful we were in 1990 ninety one , one is called a partnership for quality and the other is called fairer shares , a programme towards an anti strategy .
12 Where an indictment contains substantive counts and a related count for conspiracy , the Practice Direction [ 1977 ] I W.L.R. 537 obliges the prosecution either to justify the joinder or to elect whether to proceed on the substantive or conspiracy counts .
13 Female crickets can be trained to walk along a ‘ Y-maze ’ ( Figure 8.2 ) , on which they have to turn to the left or right .
14 It is reported that on discharge from hospital on the thirty-sixth postoperative day " he appeared to have perfectly normal powers of comprehension of the spoken word " and was able to refer to the medical and nursing staff by name .
15 Bakunin was perhaps not entirely wrong in supposing that in such a time the spirit of at least potential insurrection was most likely to smoulder among the marginal and sub-proletariat , though he was quite mistaken in believing that they would be the base of revolutionary movements .
16 She conjures up a place to balance against the freezing and breaking of the present .
17 It would take his coach at least two hours to reach Brussels , and he needed a good hour to change into the scarlet and gold finery of a British major-general .
18 No , it is quite impossible for a cat — any cat — to survive on a vegetarian or vegan diet .
19 During the 1530s this number was substantially reduced , and a small , select group was formed , compact enough to act as an advisory and executive board .
20 However , it is clear that some people will want to consider seeking an assessment to enable them to move into a residential or nursing home .
21 If you can not meet the full cost you will still be able to move into a residential or nursing home because we can help .
22 In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors .
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