Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparation for viewing could include a reading assignment to be completed before the viewing session . |
| 2 | If a witness is not available to attend the hearing after a written statement has been filed and served the court may nevertheless admit the statement as evidence although the lack of opportunity for cross-examination will affect the weight attached to it . |
| 3 | The formulation and implementation of a national energy policy was the first priority of the new president in domestic politics , and , as he saw it , some sort of test both of the governability of the United States and of his exercise of leadership , ‘ Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation . ’ |
| 4 | At best , existence after death would resemble the interlude she was now experiencing while reclining in a deckchair : from all sides , she would hear the continuous babble of female voices . |
| 5 | A programme for reform might include the following : |
| 6 | The search for goodness could take the new hero into academia and out again , despairing of its false intellectualism and its established assumption that to be intelligent is only and always to be an intellectual . |
| 7 | Under the terms of the deal purportedly sealed in Paris , the Iranians would not free the US hostages until after the 1980 presidential election , thus ensuring that President Jimmy Carter 's bid for re-election would gain no credit from an " October Surprise " release . |
| 8 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right of appeal to a tribunal . |
| 9 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point . |
| 10 | In others , an acute episode of constipation may follow a change in diet or environment , a febrile illness , a period of dehydration , or bed rest . |
| 11 | Existing in a working-class milieu reinforced by the still-existing perception of status can create a cocooning effect : it provides a sense of the familiar and the comfortable ( in psychological if not financial terms ) . |
| 12 | Dulles had already warned that the defeat of EDC would provoke an ‘ agonising reappraisal ’ of US defence policy , hinting at a retreat from Europe to ‘ Fortress America ’ . |
| 13 | However , the extra speed of processing will repay the time taken to move these records if the file is frequently processed sequentially . |
| 14 | This approach is already suggesting that genetically determined variation in the oxidative metabolism of alcohol may play a role in individual susceptibility to alcohol related liver damage implicating acetaldehyde an an important factor in disease pathogenesis . |
| 15 | however in physical geography the geography of energy may afford a pertinent focus . |
| 16 | The mention of Devenish should unsettle the man , but it was vital to prevent him from thinking too hard . |
| 17 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 18 | Loss of weight could signify a variety of conditions , from worms to a tumour , and again I ca n't point to anything specific . |
| 19 | Loss of momentum could mean a return to the stagnation which prevented the Community evolving in the 1970s . ’ |
| 20 | Benno Baksteen , chairman of the Dutch pilots ' association , said : ‘ A sudden loss of wind can cause the aircraft to lose wind speed suddenly and to such an extent that it can no longer fly and falls . ’ |
| 21 | Loss of confidence will hasten the insolvency of the institution if a ‘ run ’ occurs , and fraud can occur in any and every function of a financial institution , and the risks involved can often be counted in millions , particularly in cases of computer fraud . |
| 22 | As a commodity , labour can not be allowed by management to participate in decision-making since this loss of control could endanger the private appropriation of profit ( Nichols 1980 , pp. 287–9 ) . |
| 23 | Oakley ( 1974a ) in her study of housework could find no correlation between hours worked by housewives and the quantity of domestic machinery they had access to . |
| 24 | Impressionism was out : henceforth , it was felt , the study of literature must emulate the natural sciences if it was to hope to survive as worthy of any dignity and respect . |
| 25 | A second reason why grammarians should not simply ignore social deixis is that , while the study of English may suffer no obvious penalties for such neglect , there is scarcely a single sentence of , for example , Japanese , Javanese or Korean , that can be properly described from a strictly linguistic point of view without an analysis of social deixis . |
| 26 | Communication skills … the products of study of history can take a variety of forms . |
| 27 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 28 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 29 | In addition , the fear of imprisonment may instil the fear of rape into young , smooth , neat , corporate executives — as it did in the case of certain Watergate conspirators — and lead to a dramatic and welcome improvement in their behaviour . |
| 30 | Despite the hard words exchanged across the Chamber from time to time this evening , it is plain that there is complete agreement on both sides of the House that those who arrive here with a well-founded fear of persecution should find a safe haven . |