Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soldiers , laden with packs , had arrived in trucks , and at-the-double feet quickly formed into orderly ranks before disappearing into the unlit interiors of a dozen carriages . |
| 2 | adapt and reactivate Resolution 125 ( 1981 ) of the CLRAE on the role and responsibility of local and regional authorities in regard to the cultural and social problems of populations of nomadic origin . |
| 3 | Use the normal rules for drowning from the WFRP rulebook . |
| 4 | The long-term effect on the student and his/her ability to obtain information , is , however , of much greater interest than the measurement of short-term skills with regard to the use of specific bibliographic tools . |
| 5 | Only limited notes need to be given in the abbreviated accounts for filing with the Registrar : |
| 6 | She believes that it prevented many Labour supporters from registering on the electoral roll ( in the hope of avoiding payment ) , thus depriving Mr Kinnock of a large number of votes . |
| 7 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 8 | He accuses a ‘ small band ’ of top clubs of working against the rest within the Premier League and wants a boycott of dealings with them . |
| 9 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 10 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 11 | A short while ago I posed a question to the Daily Mirror about the method used by marine artists for putting in the mass of rigging in their paintings — is it put in by brush , pencil , or inks ? |
| 12 | It is possible to distinguish many different forms of giving in the field of welfare . |
| 13 | The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system . |
| 14 | The musical show is on at Guildford Civil Hall on Thursday , April 23rd at 2 p.m. and you could win yourself two free seats by colouring in the Mr. Men picture , filling in the form and sending it to The Junior Editor Club , The Herald , 114–115 West Street , Farnham , GU9 7HL , to arrive by Friday of next week . |
| 15 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 16 | On neurophysiological grounds one would expect there to be considerable differences between different individuals with regard to the most effective channels of learning ; therefore , one must regard statements such as that quoted with a certain amount of scepticism . |
| 17 | ( iii ) Pupils will have seen different kinds of writing in the home — their names on birthday cards or letters , forms , shopping lists and so on . |
| 18 | There is some evidence to suggest that the high costs of operating in the south and south east , and the growing skill shortage problem , are beginning to influence location decisions but the region seems set to retain its leading position for some time to come . |
| 19 | Widows and deserted wives , on the other hand , may well have been forced to supplement their meagre earnings by resorting to the Poor Law . |
| 20 | By the late 1960s various ways had been developed within English studies of dealing with the " inadequacies " which resulted from the dissonances between student attitudes to literary study and teaching based on the elevated canon of great literary texts or " classics " . |
| 21 | First , while the courts have generally avoided rigid classifications in deciding on the applicability of natural justice , they have not discarded such tools altogether . |
| 22 | And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking . |
| 23 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 24 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 26 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 28 | These were scarcely more analytic or explanatory in their approach but were interested in different kinds of data , and , as a result , developed different techniques for dealing with the problem of representativeness . |
| 29 | In which case , the contrary themes of common sense are perfectly adequate ways of dealing with the contradictions of everyday life . |
| 30 | By the 1840s abolitionists in England had long experience in less public ways of reaching into the government and its administrative arms . |