Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Modules may be offered as free-standing units or in integrated modular programmes depending on the needs of various client groups . |
2 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
3 | The SAM molecules bind to the faces of the repressors , remote from the DNA , with their positively charged sulphur atoms lying at the carboxy termini of the B helices , as in the holorepressor structure . |
4 | It is therefore primarily an adult process , but will take different forms depending on the circumstances of the participants . |
5 | As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned . |
6 | Hydrophobic interactions predominate near the ends of the helices , with a lattice of hydrogen-bonds in the centre linking Thr37 to Gln44 , and Arg40 to Arg40 by water molecules . |
7 | Such a view lies at the heart of the reasons given by the writers of the National Curriculum consultative document ( DES , 1987 ) for a common curriculum in all state schools . |
8 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
9 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
10 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
11 | Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
12 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
13 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
14 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
15 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
16 | He walked to the old-fashioned kitchen range , where red-hot coals glowed behind the bars of the grate . |
17 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
18 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |
19 | Yet when he trilled on the water-whistle , he seemed to create birds singing in the branches of invisible trees overhead . |
20 | Lamps glowed through the ports of boats , vehicles had driving lights on . |
21 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
22 | Over 170 cyclists gathered in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle , near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire , over the long weekend of May ‘ -25 to celebrate 152 years of the invention , by Kirkpatrick Macmillan , of our favourite form of transport and recreation . |
23 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |
24 | So in theory a computer , by comparing the pattern of voltages registered by the voltmeters at all the portholes , could calculate the pattern of obstacles around the fish . |
25 | The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit . |
26 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
27 | Other employers referred to the advantages of employing search consultants for particularly sensitive appointments ; obviously a personnel director could not be expected to try and find his or her successor . |
28 | Our principal concern , in the present context , is to consider how conflicts between social groups develop within the limits of given structural conditions , how such conflicts bring about political change , and what kinds of social group play a major role in this process . |
29 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
30 | These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 . |