Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare . |
| 2 | Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic . |
| 3 | Its Lunacy Act of 1838 , which required every department to develop a public asylum , can be seen as a model for the legislation of other countries . |
| 4 | ’ A book in the J. C. R. had to be signed each week to record the hours of war work required of us in return for the privilege of remaining students , and the variety of jobs was immense , including , in the long vacation , harvest and fruit-picking camps in various parts of rural England . |
| 5 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 6 | On the one hand it provides for the possibility of improved techniques for bringing about learning ; on the other it provides a rationale whereby such techniques can be explicitly identified as exemplars of more general principles of teaching . |
| 7 | It follows that any proposal for change would be referred to customary ways of thinking , and this provides for the possibility of operational techniques which realize new ideas being devised as an extension of existing practices . |
| 8 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 9 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 10 | As right-wing violence against foreigners continued on an almost daily basis , mainly in the east but with some incidents in the west , the Brandenburg Interior Minister Alwin Ziel called on Sept. 8 for the banning of neo-Nazi organizations which he believed were masterminding the attacks , particularly the Cottbus-based German Alternative ( DA ) . |
| 11 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 12 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 13 | As for the directors of early-music ensembles , it is well known that David Munrow and Christopher Hogwood first met in Cambridge . |
| 14 | Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 15 | Perhaps the standard procedures will enable us to fix the relevant space spans for the interpretation of deictic expressions like here . |
| 16 | Although libertarianism at present constitutes the main driving force for the Federation of Conservative Students , there was no evidence of this ideological philosophy in the branches we studied . |
| 17 | This , then , is a central paradox which underpins the dilemmas facing professionals and parents at Ashdown : the argument for the participation of disabled students in the decision-making processes which shape their lives and education is largely pursued in the school by able-bodied professionals . |
| 18 | It shall be determined particularly by private ownership , competition , free pricing and , as a basic principle , complete freedom of movement of labour , capital , goods and services ; this shall not preclude the legal admission of special forms of ownership , providing for the participation of public authorities or other legal entities in trade and commerce as long as private legal entities are not subject to discrimination . |
| 19 | " We are proposing that the President of the Republic be elected by secret vote , and that any citizen can be a candidate for the presidency within certain criteria , " said Chissano . |
| 20 | Responding to Chervov 's call for the inclusion of naval forces in the current Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) talks , the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , Gen. Colin Powell , said that " the real threat in Europe [ did ] not come from the US Navy but from the overwhelming Soviet ground forces , backed by air forces " . |
| 21 | Since the notion of literariness was not coterminous with the art object , it allowed for the inclusion of non-literary elements in a work without ditching the specificity of literariness . |
| 22 | Sometimes we get feedback : in the 1991 campaign on Morocco , over 10,000 members sent birthday cards to King Hassan containing a message about human rights ; as part of our campaign for the inclusion of human rights within the National Curriculum , over 3000 letters were written by members to MPs and ministers . |
| 23 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend do everything he possibly can firmly to nail the blame on Bruce Millan for the delay in these funds coming to the coalfield areas ? |
| 25 | Apart from the competition , the teams raised some £2500 for the Committee for the Promotion of Disabled Anglers . |
| 26 | Article 20.1 of the Danish Constitution allows powers to be ‘ delegated to international authorities set up by mutual agreement with other states for the promotion of international rules of law and cooperation ’ . |
| 27 | Andronikos was a leading member of the Archaeological Association of Athens and a member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London and the Society for Macedonian Studies in Thessalonika . |
| 28 | It called also for the promotion of closer ties with the European Communities ( EC ) , and for a complete restructuring of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) and the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ) , both of which were seen as ineffective . |
| 29 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 30 | Lord Scarman said : ‘ ACAS has to form its view as to what is best for the promotion of industrial relations and the extension of collective bargaining . |