Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided that environmental concerns are met and are specifically addressed in the planning process , we believe that output from the opencast sector must be blended with output from the deep-mine sector . |
| 2 | Sight deposits are any deposits that can be withdrawn on demand by the depositor without penalty . |
| 3 | The pilot scheme can only be used by consenting parties which consent can not be withdrawn without leave of the court . |
| 4 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 5 | In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry . |
| 6 | Even if you are coping well enough overall , you may sometimes be provoked into anger against the patient , either because of his behaviour , or because of your mutual frustration at the situation his illness has created . |
| 7 | Boswell loathed him so much that his first edition of the Tour to the Hebrides had to be amended on account of the unflattering position he took on Sir Alexander . |
| 8 | In spite of promising prospects for the future , it has so far been a complementary course , to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study . |
| 9 | Another problem arose in 1916 , which can not easily be explained without reference to the proposed ‘ Home Rule ’ in Ireland that had developed under the government of Asquith which introduced the Home Rule Act 1914 . |
| 10 | Thus the overshadowing effect can be explained without recourse to the mechanisms usually supposed to be responsible for it in associative learning ( but see Pearce 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The irreconcilability of two such extremes in one group of human beings could only be explained as part of the great mystery of human personality . |
| 12 | Similarly , the notion of collocation may be explained with reference to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionaries of Current English ( OALD ) : |
| 13 | The fashion for Bonington among French collectors can be explained in part by the wave of anglophilia that swept France under the Restoration . |
| 14 | This can be explained in part by the large numbers of dogs that were imported initially , but it is clear that the breed has really taken off and is now firmly established in the top ten most popular breeds in New Zealand . |
| 15 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 16 | According to the report , the overall net downgrading can be explained in part by the increased monitoring effort of the NRA and by the hot and dry summers of 1989 and 1990 , which in many areas reduced the amount of water available to dilute the inputs of contaminating waste . |
| 17 | It seems likely , too , that several other distinctive features of the church will eventually be explained by reference to the temple . |
| 18 | This huge deficit can be explained by reference to the growth of demand within the USA which has drawn an increasing volume of imports . |
| 19 | This latter is a piece of independent evidence , which is distinct from the actions , such as masturbation or thumb-sucking or the hysterical symptoms of neurotics , which are to be explained by reference to the concept of sexual instincts . |
| 20 | In any event , cases in which neither misrepresentation nor undue influence play any part can not , in my opinion , be explained by reference to the debtor husband 's status as agent for the creditor . |
| 21 | Van den Boogard concentrated his study on revealing characteristics shared by the Anglo-Norman fabliaux which could be explained by reference to the peculiar situation of the Anglo-Norman community . |
| 22 | Since a knowledge of could be used to trace the time path of money wages , , and since the magnitudes of X L and its twin X G could be explained by reference to the income-expenditure model , the Keynesian system was no longer underdetermined : the number of variables equalled the number of independent equations . |
| 23 | Only group 5 did not propose the following pattern : ( i ) The relative rigidity of this pattern can be explained by reference to the cohesive chains which develop through it . |
| 24 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 , much conformity may be explained by powerlessness in the face of social circumstances , where the actors recognise their inability to change things , and so resign themselves to making the best of it . |
| 25 | If the absence of active Judicial intervention is to be explained by confidence in the Diet 's ability to represent electoral consensus , we can see how Japan could manage without the fierce watchdog role that the constitution envisaged for the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | Increased concentrations of cross linked fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products and decreased platelet counts found in the plasma after peritoneovenous shunting has led others to suggest that the coagulopathy is secondary to disseminated intravascular coagulation induced either by fibrin degradation products or thromboplastin-like substances , and that ascitic plasminogen activators would be neutralised on entry into the systemic circulation . |
| 27 | England 's failure may be traced to irresolution at the society 's centre , the Queen herself . |
| 28 | First , Bologna has argued that the remarkable political vitality of the International Workers of the World ( IWW ) can be traced in part to the character of the American proletariat which it organised , in the early years of the twentieth century , as a ‘ mobile proletariat … completely against identification with any task or skill ’ ( Bologna , 1976 , p. 72 ) . |
| 29 | The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Noel Stock , who speaks as one who had Pound 's confidence in recent years and was in daily contact with him , explains that this passage derives from a hint thrown out by Jessie L. Weston in her from Ritual to Romance , to the effect that the charges of heresy brought against the Templars were not wholly unfounded , since some of the practices of the Eleusinian mystery-cults from the pagan Near East survived in the heart of Christendom in the rituals of the Templars , a survival to be traced in literature in the stories and poems about the quest of the holy grail . |