Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some supernatural manifestations are regarded as portents of good or evil ; one such occurrence was the Spectral Train of Kyle . |
| 2 | Hence as a diversion I compose something else , such as duets for clavier and violin . |
| 3 | The General Directorate for Fine Arts and Archives of the Spanish Ministry of Culture has announced a Pta100 million funding programme for archives in Central and South America which relate to Spain 's colonial past . |
| 4 | The approval by the parliamentary Finance Committee on Sept. 20 of US$6.5 million of investments for industrial and infrastructure development in the occupied territories ( including the Golan Heights ) prompted protests by the opposition United Workers ' Party ( Mapam ) . |
| 5 | Commander of the Derry Brigade in 1971 , Director of Operations in 1977 and Chief of Staff from 1978 to 1982 , he is regarded as the Sinn Fein leader with most influence over IRA activities . |
| 6 | The volumes of savings by personal and business customers with us is now tremendous . ’ |
| 7 | Singing was her first love , though , and she returned to the Gael-Linn studio earlier this year to record a new album of songs in Irish and English — with the help of a host of fine musicians including brother Michéal and producer Donal Lunny . |
| 8 | Since the early 1960s Mr Briggs has cleared 450 acres of bracken by a variety of methods including aerial and knapsack spraying , and said : ‘ The problems of over-grazing by sheep are well known . |
| 9 | It would consider in particular whether changes were needed in the conduct of police investigations ; the role of the prosecutor in supervising the gathering of evidence ; the role of experts in criminal proceedings , and the relationship between forensic science services and the police ; the access of defendants to legal and expert advice ; the powers of the courts in directing proceedings ; the role of the Court of Appeal in considering new evidence on appeal ; and arrangements for investigating allegations of miscarriages of justice when appeal rights had been exhausted . |
| 10 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 11 | Such a view ignores the combined impact of adversarial divorce courts , lack of support for separating couples going through loss and change , lack of awareness of different roles and responsibilities of step-parents , lack of recognition of step-families in legal or welfare systems , and the negative image of step-families , all of which have contributed to the difficulties of remarriage and a rising re-divorce rate . |
| 12 | As the cholera epidemic claims an increasing number of lives in Central and South America , a number of church and development organisations are struggling to teach people how to cope with the disease , which can be cured if the right steps are taken . |
| 13 | At the moment we can not make precise predictions about the level and type of demand , but we do know that the number of places in residential and nursing home care has declined in the past year . |
| 14 | If there are only two levels ( on and off ) available then the number of colours including black and white is 2 3 or 8 . |
| 15 | The second tactic is to ensure that we stop adding more people to the numbers of tragic people on our streets as a result of years of social and self-neglect . |
| 16 | Presentations of costs of residential and fostering care and intermediate treatment which ignore these important considerations can result in unjustified conclusions about cost effectiveness . |
| 17 | For greater communication and sharing of resources between ordinary and specialist provision . |
| 18 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 19 | The persistently repeated rapid rise and fall of civilizations in Central and South America may , for all we know , reflect just this process . |
| 20 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 21 | It was originally isolated from endotoxin treated monocytes but can also be produced by a variety of other cells upon stimulation with a number of cytokines including IL-1 and tumour necrosis factor ( TNF-α ) . |
| 22 | The oil crisis of the early seventies provoked a rush of decisions at federal and state level to find clean energy sources , and this is one result ; the four thousand windmills that line the ridges of the Atamont hills in central California . |
| 23 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 24 | If the difference of interests of bourgeois and worker is the social contradiction of capitalism , then the advent of modernist culture is what Daniel Bell has rightly called the cultural contradiction of capitalism . |
| 25 | Yet our present line of argument shows that there is another possibility that , because of failures in individual and superego development , such conflicts will no longer be confined within the personality , but may break out between it and the outside world . |
| 26 | The main development objective is to produce a well-documented , user-friendly version of the main suite of programs with self-documenting or transport inputs and automated production of model manuals from the inputs by which the model is defined ( the 1981 manual of the UK model was produced in this manner using a prototype version of the new system ) . |
| 27 | It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers . |
| 28 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 29 | Both terms are widely used in the everyday speech of laymen concerning economic and business affairs . [ … ] |
| 30 | To Norman Cook the success of records like that and music such as En Vogue 's ‘ Lies ’ , music he plays at his ‘ Ted Free Zone ’ night in Brighton , signals the end of the uptempo madness that was house . |