Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1921 she investigated differential operators in quantum mechanics by abstracting their essential properties , taking these properties as axioms and building all consequences thereupon . |
| 2 | The Halifax Building Society has also produced a booklet called Home Help for Widows , which has been compiled in conjunction with the National Association for Widows and gives practical advice on property matters . |
| 3 | He would pray for hours and memorize large sections of the Bible . |
| 4 | Alphabetical indexing languages specialize in establishing specific labels for subjects and providing direct access to individual subjects . |
| 5 | Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader 's interest . |
| 6 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 8 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 9 | Any social debate about AIDS acquires a political dimension with associated prejudice about race , religion , social class and nationality ; in fact , it has become a direct threat to free travel between countries and to open international exchange and communication . |
| 10 | ‘ Part of our scheme included players attending coaching seminars for youngsters and making public appearances which would generate genuine interest in our game . |
| 11 | We will introduce more choice , improve management of estates and create new rights as part of the Tenant 's Charter . |
| 12 | Further west the US XVIII Corps — composed around a nucleus of US airborne troops — together with the highly mobile French forces , thrust deep into Iraq from Rafha , with the objective of reaching the Euphrates at Nasiriyah in order to seal the Kuwaiti theatre of operations and to prevent Iraqi forces from escaping to the north . |
| 13 | It will also inform schools about the role of the police , making young people aware of dangers and help foster crime prevention . |
| 14 | It takes an initial order of objects and applies random changes to the order , viz sub-order reversals and sub-order translations ( 13 ) . |
| 15 | It seems certain to blacken miles of pristine coastline , kill hundreds of birds and wreck lucrative shellfish grounds . |
| 16 | This is a remarkably small number of cases and needs further examination . |
| 17 | This situation will change with the privatisation of restaurants and housing next year . |
| 18 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |
| 19 | Word processing programs allow the user to delete one character or word or sequence of words and insert new letters ( e.g. to correct spelling ) or new words or phrases to improve the clarity of the document . |
| 20 | Finally the algebra introduced by Boole to model logic mathematically has found application to the design of computers and telephone switching circuits , again via the very real problem of reducing construction costs . |
| 21 | We are too well aware that the government is short of funds and needs additional revenue quickly , principally , I suspect , to fund unemployment benefit . |
| 22 | It is short of funds and needs more support to spread awareness . |
| 23 | Single older people are more prone to suffer from a lack of amenities and occupy unfit dwellings than larger elderly households . |
| 24 | By cutting the state salaries of clergy and ending religious domination of education , the republican government pushed into opposition the near 25% of the Spanish population who were Catholics . |
| 25 | The game of soccer is an ideal vehicle for acts of collective aggression , guaranteeing encounters between rival groups of supporters and providing emotive issues which serve as rallying points for aggressive behaviour . |
| 26 | It seeks to streamline the bodies of representation and accreditation of the nursing professions by removing duplication of roles and removing confusing remits . |
| 27 | More experienced observers tended to note a greater number of aspects and produced related clusters and sub-groups indicative of sensed assonances . |
| 28 | The appellant and two accomplices broke into a number of cars and stole various objects from them . |
| 29 | This is nothing like a synchronized , long-distance , man-and-dog walk and should not be confused with it , but it is a minor walk of sorts and demands some interpretation . |
| 30 | Simplistically , it would appear that this change could be accomplished merely by making family planning information , services and supplies available to all women of reproductive age and motivating them to use the services , confining childbearing to ages 20–34 , reducing the total number of pregnancies and lengthening inter-birth intervals , but much more is involved . |