Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case there were clearly grounds for doubts about whether the accounting period ended on 25 October 1977 or 31 January 1978 , W believing the former and the company contending the latter . |
| 2 | There are a lot of herbs for when a child falls ill . |
| 3 | In letters to the Danish foreign minister , Poul Nyrup-Rasmussen , whose country holds the EC 's rotating presidency , and the EC commission president , Jacques Delors , Mr Beregovoy said he wanted the discussion of the oilseed deal put off pending completion of studies on whether the accord was compatible with EC common farm policy . |
| 4 | We do n't send more papers out to external referees because we do n't want to exhaust this valuable resource ( even though we have about 2500 referees on our database ) and because we are the best judge of issues like whether the paper belongs in the BMJ or another sort of journal . |
| 5 | There was some confusion amongst respondents over whether the question related merely to the keeping of a copy of an undertaking on the relevant file , or to a central record of undertakings as intended in the paper . |
| 6 | After the inquiry Mr Graham and Mr John Lindsay , a chartered surveyor and the second inspector , would prepare a written report for the secretaries of state with recommendations on whether the line should go ahead . |
| 7 | What we can do by way of conclusion , however , is to point out once more the strengths and weaknesses of these various approaches in terms of whether the hypothesis and explanations they employ are rigorous or not . |
| 8 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 9 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 10 | The question appears at first in terms of whether the suppression of pornography by censorship is worth the price in terms of loss of freedom of expression . |
| 11 | Questions of possession/non-possession are not only crucial in cases of stale claims but have , since the 1985 House of Lords decision in Street v Mountford [ 1985 ] AC 809 , been fundamental in decisions about whether an occupier of property is categorised as a " tenant " or a " licensee " . |
| 12 | Proper conduct — ‘ auditors should report to shareholders on whether the company has acceptable financial and other relevant risk management controls … ’ |
| 13 | Although the drawing program 's technique is trickier to get to grips with than the painting program 's , it has two main advantages . |
| 14 | It 's all pretty standard stuff for the digitally-minded , and easy to get to grips with for the novice . |
| 15 | The Barnes 's lawyers , he added , prevented him from testifying at hearings on whether the tour should be allowed . |