Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’ |
| 3 | The American law of libel , including as it does no protection for the individual politician as well as political institutions , goes further along the road of freedom of the press than the English law ; nor would I wish to extend it . |
| 4 | Structural work had to be restricted to ‘ the minimum compatible with the provision of a reasonable standard of protection for the ambulant patients and the staff not required to remain on duty ’ . |
| 5 | One is obliged to note , however , that Dame Sirith does very little else to support the case that the Anglo-Norman fabliaux stand between the French tradition and English fabliaux . |
| 6 | This is in preparation for the new Sprinters when they come into service . |
| 7 | However , as EC businesses restructure themselves in preparation for the single market and as previously protected industrial sectors are open to competition for the first time , takeover activity is one means by which new corporate entities can be created and structured on a pan-European basis . |
| 8 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 9 | After delays caused by unforeseen difficulties with the foundations , the steelwork for the new workshop and museum has been erected . |
| 10 | Despite a major stratigraphic gap that includes most of the Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous , there is little angular discordance between the shaly limestones and shales of the Rhaetic and Lower Lias and the overlying glauconitic sandstones and limestones of the Upper Cretaceous . |
| 11 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 12 | Tim Devlin , of course , has an advantage as the sitting MP but it is too close to call at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | The key factor in the overall course of British economic development has been the particular , even unique , class character of British capitalism in the division between industrial and finance capital which has itself entailed a spatial division between the industrial provinces and the metropolitan hub of finance and commerce . |
| 14 | But the division between the permanent staff and new prisoners persisted . |
| 15 | His fingers felt the division between the old floorboards and then the cross-cut which marked the edge of a trapdoor . |
| 16 | Adrian Jones of Laser … says its easy to sail … its not for the beginner but the club sailor will be able to handle it … he says it gives the opportunity for the normal man or girl in the street to sail together in a powerful boat … all the boats will be exactly the same … it means that the best sailor will win … |
| 17 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 18 | Capitalism , for instance , developed from the struggle between the feudal aristocracy and the emerging capitalist class , both groups in numerical terms forming a minority of the population . |
| 19 | Such ideas had their major influence in South Wales where nearly all men were engaged in mining and could envisage a pure " class struggle " between themselves and the coalowners which would at the same time be a political struggle between the great majority and the rich minority . |
| 20 | The manufacturers found themselves ‘ excluded alike from the County Commission of the Peace and the Municipal Corporation ’ , and from ‘ this essentially ‘ caste ’ struggle between the Tory squires and the radical manufacturers ’ ( Webb and Webb 1963:93 ) there emerged not only the widening of the parliamentary franchise but also the pressure for change in the urban areas . |
| 21 | It was much harder to imagine Pascoe taking gloves and a knife with him when he went to MacQuillan 's office and creeping up behind him , and there was no evidence of a struggle between the dead man and his attacker which would have been the case if the killer had not approached from behind . |
| 22 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 23 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 24 | A demise for years is a contract for the exclusive possession and profit of land for some determinate period . |
| 25 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 26 | Rarely will there be a more appropriate case for the new law than that of Thomas Courtney . |
| 27 | The case for the scientific literacy and sympathy of George Eliot is well argued — but then it was familiar anyway . |
| 28 | There is a clear consensus that the case for the public ownership and management by State corporations of whole industries was limited ; and , further , that the objective was not nationalisation for its own sake , but the need to bring economic enterprise under social control — whatever that means . |
| 29 | The gap between the British and Prussian armies was still very narrow , yet Sharpe 's news proved that the Emperor had his foot between the two doors and , in the morning , he would be heaving damned hard to drive the doors apart . |
| 30 | The Institute has a wide range of specialised research facilities including glasshouses , growth rooms and chambers , an environmental wind tunnel , animal metabolism and animal behaviour facilities , an animal surgery , facilities for carcass and meat evaluation , and provision for the individual feeding and care of animals . |