Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity . |
| 2 | ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child . |
| 3 | Consequently , in classical and medieval times , there was no radical inconsistency between description based on the accurate observation of empirical reality and continued belief in a world of fable , inhabited by otherworld monsters . |
| 4 | Actually I am still in two minds about mibbe squeezing in a quick Hughes or a Heaney somehow . |
| 5 | The case for foot rests on the presumed equivalence of contrast between foot and query , in 17 : |
| 6 | It 's been said although I would n't say it for myself that the lack of pressure for change stems from the Royal Family 's landholdings . |
| 7 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 8 | All of the opportunities which exist for course monitoring in a monolithic , longitudinal course structure also exist at field level in the Modular Course . |
| 9 | However , Aglen 's appointment as inspector-general coincided with the anti-Manchu revolution of 1911–12 which resulted in the breakdown of the administrative arrangements of the Chinese , and faced by these unprecedented difficulties , Aglen made arrangements for the safety and integrity of customs revenue by placing it in foreign banks in his own name . |
| 10 | Resistance to the EEC-funded search for uranium began with the anti-nuclear movement but quickly developed , in the major area being prospected , Co . |
| 11 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 12 | Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement . |
| 13 | The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission . |
| 14 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 15 | Letter from R. Paul , headmaster of Currie High School , thanking the Village Association for cheque donated to the tercentenary fund . |
| 16 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 17 | The company is also hoping for permission to develop on a nearby abbatoir site . |
| 18 | THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to pressure from farmers to increase compensation for damage caused by the recent flooding of the Rivers Tay and Spey . |
| 19 | North Korea reiterated its demand for compensation not only for Japan 's colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but also for damage suffered in the post-war period , for which Japan disclaimed responsibility . |
| 20 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 21 | Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB . |
| 22 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 23 | Experimental evidence for chaos based on the mode-splitting instability was first obtained by Casperson in 1978 { 10 } : the route to chaos was not studied in detail , except that period-two was observed . |
| 24 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 25 | My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) . |
| 26 | Chartering aircraft for pleasure began in the 1920s . |
| 27 | ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution . |
| 28 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 29 | Primary involvement , however , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , seems to be exceptionally rare , especially in its isolated form : we have been able to identify only six cases in which patients presented with oesophageal tumour as the only manifestation of lymphoma ( five Hodgkin 's disease , one non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma ) . |
| 30 | Primary involvement , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , is rare , especially in its isolated form when it is the only focus of the disease . |