Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 2 | Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated . |
| 3 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 4 | It seemed to be in permanent decline , possibly for some of the same reasons as the Liberals after 1918 . |
| 5 | It should be sent ( or preferably taken ) as soon as possible , together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) which you will have been given by the Registrar of Births and Deaths , to the local Social Security Office , and as in most cases there is an entitlement to a National Insurance death grant , application can be made for this at the same time . |
| 6 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 7 | From this examination of some of the many patterns of family life which exist in Britain in the 1980s it can be seen that traditional views of the family are unsupported by research findings . |
| 8 | Our 84 years young Vice-President had the honour of being presented to Her Majesty The Queen when , accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh , she officially opened the D.L.F. 's new Centre in Harrow Road , London , W.9 and saw demonstrations by physiotherapists and occupational therapists of some of the many aids and equipment available . |
| 9 | This Chapter has been very largely concerned , first , with the presentation of some useful analytical distinctions , and , secondly , with a review of some of the many intricacies of deixis in familiar and less familiar languages . |
| 10 | Again there is nostalgic recollection of some of the former county names e.g. Pembrokeshire . |
| 11 | The tour will include a view of some of the former waterworks equipment and will provide an insight into how the rangers manage the park and balance the needs of wildlife with those of the visiting public . |
| 12 | Yet this image , allowing for exaggeration , is not totally removed from the reality of prewar Japanese society , and the persistence of some of the same characteristics in the post-1945 period therefore means that such categorization still contains a measure of truth . |
| 13 | There were only eight private acts for enclosure in the whole of England before 1714 , eighteen under George I ( 1714–27 ) , and 229 under George II ( 1727–60 ) , most of these in the latter part of his reign . |
| 14 | Well course , there 's gon na be a certain amount of all in the same day is n't there ? |
| 15 | With the help of many of the same printing presses , ink suppliers and distributors , Harlequin Enterprises , a Canadian firm which dominates the world 's romantic-fiction market , is doing a roaring business by expanding into Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | Repeated non-availability or failures to show up after agreeing to an engagement are likely to result in a discontinuation of offers of work , and in this sense casual working requires an acceptance of many of the same disciplines as apply to working in a regular fashion . |
| 17 | Alas , however , we speak here of a democracy of those with the least sense of urgency to correct what is wrong , the best insulation through short-run comfort from what could go wrong — a democracy run by and for the contented majority , in which those who do not share in its benefits do not participate . |
| 18 | Job losses , which until recently were unheard of in the NHS , usually affect older people first , resulting in the loss of those with the most skill and experience . |
| 19 | In the spring , this need of young animals for the company of those of the same age is very obvious . |
| 20 | Thus , before medieval drama went into the streets as part of a religious festival , less developed kinds of dramatization of several of the same events — key moments in the Christian history of the world — had been performed in churches , and some of the very earliest of these — the Quem quaeritis ? episodes of the encounters after the resurrection — had been performed within religious services . |
| 21 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 22 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 23 | Sources close to the KIO say the civil suit in Britain has no bearing on separate , and so far unsuccessful , criminal cases against many of the same defendants in Spain . |
| 24 | At the moment , at secondary level any school 's review of a National Curriculum plan has two main imponderables - namely how to organise keystage 4 from fourteen to sixteen in a way which accommodates choice and avoids boredom and alienation amongst those with the least attainment in the compulsory core and foundation subjects in the first three keystages . |
| 25 | In March 1952 Soviet statesmen suggested a unification of Germany in exchange for its non-participation in coalitions or alliances directed against any of the former wartime allies and in 1954 Molotov more clearly presented the idea of neutralising Germany . |
| 26 | Equally , it went through many of the same traumas as Britain in the 1960s and 1970s while the Thatcher crusade for the market-led economy found an echo not only in Reagan 's America , but in France , Australia , Spain , and even social-democratic Sweden . |
| 27 | Despite its undoubted success , IDG has lost parts of its core home market for many of the same reasons it has succeeded abroad . |
| 28 | As in the 1950s and 1980s , and for many of the same reasons , Labour 's ‘ forward march ’ seemed far from guaranteed . |
| 29 | Increasingly firms from developing countries are extending abroad , for many of the same reasons that earlier prompted the moves of developed country multinationals . |
| 30 | Braque was dissatisfied with traditional perspective for many of the same reasons as Picasso . |