Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But the movement for political rights overlooked the immensely conservative tendencies inherent in the structure of the surrounding society and particularly the institution of the family .
2 He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 .
3 The former was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises .
4 Section 1(1) refers to dangers due to the state of the premises or things done or omitted to be done on them .
5 Prior to the Act the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty , which was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises , and the activity duty , which was concerned with the occupier 's activities on his premises .
6 Estimates of the number of adults with cystic fibrosis in different age groups alive at the middle of 1990 were obtained from the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Survey ( J Dodge , personal communication ) .
7 A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes .
8 They are becoming increasingly critical to aircraft maintenance operations due to the shortfalls in trained and skilled staff experienced by the aviation world .
9 But it is also an example of the dangers inherent in the assumption of positivist historians that , if enough facts are piled up , a changeless , timeless historical ‘ truth ’ will emerge .
10 Fortunately , we 're more alive to the dangers inherent in the bruising of delicate psyches .
11 The Sw.Fr 150 million 1996 Notes outstanding at the end of 1991 have been swapped into £58 million at an interest rate of 6.85 per cent .
12 The valuation date will usually be the rent review date ; and the court will lean in favour of a construction which produces the result that the rent is valued by reference to values prevailing at the start of the period for which it is payable ( Glofield Properties v Morley ( No 2 ) [ 1989 ] 2 EGLR 118 ) .
13 While margins were under severe pressure in commodity style products due to the import of low priced promotional products from the Orient , unit sales overall increased in both the mass and department store markets .
14 Flows due to the transactions of these customers influence the cash position of the money market but are not disclosed by the Bank .
15 If by any chance there are errors in the minutes , then by accepting such a motion you are authorising the Chairman to sign the minutes complete with the errors as the correct record of the previous meeting .
16 He is anxious that it will increase conflicts between groups due to the strengthening of and increase of group identity .
17 The relative risk of a child being overweight is five times that of a child with normal weight parents ( Poskitt 1980 ) .
18 Four obvious groups interested in the management of these electronic records are , the legal profession , historians , records managers/archivists , and computing professionals .
19 These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records .
20 Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ .
21 He has to abandon some of his contemporary behaviour and to accept the older patterns prevalent among the majority of the congregation .
22 The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ?
23 The bare infinitives are used to refer to reactions concurrent with the contemplation of the scene which the person in question has before his eyes , spontaneous reactions , leaving no room for reflection .
24 Two of the species present in the field are of particular interest , both to population biologists interested in the manner in which the numbers of plants are regulated and to evolutionists concerned with the extent and significance of natural variation .
25 The value of computerized information retrieval lies not only in the in-depth storage and retrieval of information but in the opportunity for developing in-depth search strategies free from the restraints of searching a number of bibliographic tools for relevant information .
26 These degrees are generally of 21–24 months ' duration by full-time study , 36 months full-time for the MPhil in Clinical Psychology .
27 ‘ Apart from the fact that you were three months pregnant at the time of Simon 's death , ’ Vitor completed .
28 Gordon Harker 's girlfriend Lisa Hughill was five months pregnant at the time of the assault .
29 OPTIONS : Any chariots may have up to two additional crewmen each at a cost of 7 ½ points each .
30 OPTIONS : Any chariots may have up to two additional crewmen each at a cost of 3 ½ points each .
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