Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " offer of amends " would be a valuable protection for the media in cases of unintentional defamation , were it not encumbered by what the Faulks Committee described as " expensive rigmarole " — a procedure which requires the swearing of a detailed affidavit about how the confusion arose , which must be served at the same time as the offer of amends . |
| 2 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 3 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 4 | Of necessity , he followed a twisting route through the trees in order to avoid patches of thick underbrush , all the while making sure he never strayed too far from the guiding line of the perimeter fence on his left . |
| 5 | ‘ The attendance ’ , said counsel for the defendant in Hunt v. Broome , ‘ is for the purpose of peacefully persuading a man not to work so the attendance must be in a position where the persuasion can be carried out ; otherwise its purpose is frustrated … |
| 6 | The apparent failure of the English to contain the Irish reveals a great deal of weakness about the English in Spenser 's eyes . |
| 7 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 8 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 9 | East of Tromsø , the ‘ capital ’ of Arctic Norway , is Lyngen , a superb area of jagged peaks that is near paradise for the climber in winter . |
| 10 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 11 | A council has been asked to give permission for the development in return for money for recreational facilities . |
| 12 | The Regional Council refused planning permission for the development in November of last year , and among the reasons for refusal was the lack of justification for the commercial development , and the harm that would be caused to this particular part of the Green Belt . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport finally granted permission for the scheme in February following over ten years of lobbying of Southwark Council by JS . |
| 14 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ it is essential for a suitor to request permission for the hand in marriage of the women he has chosen . |
| 15 | BACK IN THE COURTroom , David Calvert-Smith opens the case for the Crown in front of Judge Lowry . |
| 16 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 17 | The other was a £310,000 provision for the diminution in market value of an undisclosed investment . |
| 18 | There is the further grave difficulty about the idea in hand , as a little reflection will show , that in the given sense no causal circumstance , as distinct from cc " use , has the given power . |
| 19 | Hammond laughed , but his face was filled with loathing for the man in front of him . |
| 20 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 21 | One or two other questions , of a routine kind about the house in Mouncy Street , more to keep her talking , open her up , than anything else . |
| 22 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 23 | An additional difficulty for the archivist in UK government is the lack of a sense of history . |
| 24 | This makes it important to select the right measure for the purpose in view . |
| 25 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 26 | This liability is owed to the third party in tort by the party in default , and the terms of the contract between the party in default and the innocent party can have no effect on it . |
| 27 | In accounts of women 's struggle for the vote in Britain , Scottish women active in England are subsumed amongst their English colleagues while those active in Scotland remain unknown ; Scottish cities are treated as provincial English cities . |
| 28 | The English were well informed about the manoeuvres that had made him Emperor , and Charles II 's Poet Laureate , John Dryden , wrote a play about the struggle for the succession in Delhi . |
| 29 | Zborowski did have a buyer for the drawings in Lucien Descaves , the brother of the Police Commissioner who bought them up by the batch . |
| 30 | There may be deadlock and paralysis , but the government that will eventually take office will emerge after protracted bargaining between the parties in Parliament after a general election and without any reference to the electors and their wishes . |