Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [coord] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such people [ i.e. religious fundamentalists ] may believe that the elevation of a wife to equal status with the husband is tantamount to subversion of the divine will for the hierarchy and hence integrity of the family . |
| 2 | Soon after work began however , it was found that there were serious problems in making a secure , stable base for the embankment and thus progress was brought to a halt . |
| 3 | Ideal for the patio or even windowsill . |
| 4 | But when there is a conflict between the Bible and either tradition or the assumption of theology I believe we should assert the supremacy of the written Word if for no other reason than that our Lord adopted precisely this approach with respect to the Old Testament . |
| 5 | Because in reaching its decision it takes account not only of the technical merits in terms of traffic relief but also , the wider impact er the other factors in terms of the route and also public opinion . |
| 6 | When bleeding is a steady ooze , it can often be stopped by injections of dilute adrenaline ( 1 in 10000 ) , and this also facilitates completion of the procedure and thereby drainage of the duct . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) The whole of the evidence sought from Dr. Hayes relates to matters which came to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown and accordingly section 9(4) applies . |
| 8 | After breakfast , the first washing-up of the day and then Mum and the girls would start to prepare dinner , for everyone except the elite had ‘ dinner ’ in the middle of the day . |
| 9 | INVESTORS should take note of the fact that Sir Ian MacGregor , hammer of the miners and now chairman of printing group HunterPrint , has been increasing his stake with the purchase of 840,000 shares , giving him a stake of 3.4 per cent . |
| 10 | When he became Minister of the Interior and thus boss of the Securitate , its various intelligence activities and methods were explained to him . |
| 11 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 12 | She can not have failed to be aware of the situation as the land reeked of the smells and both water and land were often strikingly coloured . |
| 13 | The year 1982 saw the death of Mr Sammy Lyttle , a longstanding member of the choir and sometimes choirmaster and in 1983–1984 there were deaths of Mr Cecil Mullen , Mr J H Montgomery and Mr W J Green . |
| 14 | The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster . |
| 15 | What better way of starting such a series than by talking to Asa Briggs , Lord Briggs , prominent author and historian , previous Vice-Chancellor of the University and now Provost of Worcester College , Oxford ? |
| 16 | Sir Arthur Gold , the former president of the European Athletic Association , a life vice-president of the board and now chairman of the British Olympic Association and supported Johnson , saying there had been ‘ wicked distortions ’ . |
| 17 | And beautiful : played over by the cheerful light of young and strong vigour , entirely desire of the senses and entirely pleasure in one another . |
| 18 | I find it almost impossible to accept that such an injury … could have occurred without extensive bruising and swelling of the nose and probably fracture or disruption of structures within the nose and associated tissues . ’ |
| 19 | Not only the statesmen of the age but also public opinion , partly sheltered from the realities of war by the employment of mainly professional armies , were untouched by the enthusiasm for peace which usually prompted such schemes and indifferent to the dreams which they embodied . |
| 20 | Er , just to take you quickly through er the first part of the report and then hand over to Moat . |
| 21 | Grasmere , too has lost its galleries but evidently they were there once as de Quincey wrote describing them in his Recollections , ‘ A very interesting feature of the elder architecture , annually becoming more and more rare viz the outside gallery , which is sometimes merely of wood , but is much more striking when provided for in the original construction of the house and completely enfoncée in the masonry . ’ |
| 22 | The majority of the workforces in the Middle East remain multinational and the vast labour forces of the Subcontinent and far East are readily available and accessible to companies operating in the Middle East . |
| 23 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 24 | Pending further research , I can not consider the word in 10.1 to be inconsistent with the language of the rest of the book and therefore evidence of interpolation . |
| 25 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 26 | According to John Dunster , then a scientist with the AEA and now chairman of the NRPB , the main radioactive cloud travelled south-east across most of England and on over Europe . |
| 27 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 28 | There is little wrong with the tenor and even toughness of the Code but its weakness is that it is unrealistic when crucial choices have to be made by its members . |
| 29 | If an abatement notice , served in compliance with s.93 of the 1936 Act , is not complied with at the expiry of the specified time , or the local authority thinks that the nuisance , although abated , is likely to recur , s.94(1) of that Act provides that it is the duty of the local authority to institute summary proceedings for a nuisance order , in order to obtain compliance with the notice or otherwise abatement of the nuisance . |
| 30 | Often retching and vomiting occur with the headache and sometimes vertigo ; worse ( < ) morning , night , motion , stooping . |