Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 2 | The EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on May 2 [ see above ] concluded that the EC was " willing to recognize Macedonia as a sovereign and independent state within its existing borders and under a name that can be accepted by all parties concerned " . |
| 3 | One of the more important of these was the quota sample , an attempt to approximate to random sampling methods but in a way that minimised the practical difficulties often involved in selecting and contacting respondents , so offering considerable advantages in cost and convenience . |
| 4 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 5 | To the far right are two output jacks offering Pre-Fade input ( for connecting other preamps into the D12 's power amp ) and Post-Fade output ( for hooking up to other power amps or to a desk or mixer ) . |
| 6 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 7 | Therefore , the unwillingness of policemen to define their role in these terms does not show itself in a failure to perform these duties but as a judgement that it is ‘ really ’ the work of others . |
| 8 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 9 | The experience of California both in pollution control policies and as a testing or proving ground strongly influenced the direction of federal policies during the 1960s . |
| 10 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 11 | From being 10-6 down at the interval their pure brand of running rugby thrilled the crowd as the Souter backs blazed over for four thrilling tries and for a victory that appeared well beyond their reach at the half-way stage . |
| 12 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 13 | Concrete vaulting supported the tiers of seats as in an amphitheatre and under the vaults were corridors lit by outer arcades . |
| 14 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 15 | We had supposed that the second bacterial pattern , with separation between cytoplasmic and chromatinic content and parietal structures and often of typical ring shape intrabacterial electron opaque vacuolisation , represented the morphological consequence of a H pylori linked to nutritional conditions or to an acid or cytotoxic attack in the absence of a mucus layer , or all three . |
| 16 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 17 | Baldwin ( 1954 ) states that 42 per cent of Mexico had ‘ accelerated erosion ’ and so on , although as section 1 of this chapter suggests , it is difficult to know how to gauge the significance of these figures except in a general and qualitative way , which indeed may be sufficient . |
| 18 | For the empty command of a gang of thugs and for a government that 's just using you . ’ |
| 19 | This concern has expressed itself not only in papers on children 's acquisition of literacy ( e.g. , Donaldson , 1984 , 1989 ) , but also in the publication of a number of children 's stories and of a reading and language programme for children in primary classrooms ( Reid and Donaldson , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 21 | In the Regional Council 's view , the appeal proposal is contrary to those terms , in that the development would precipitate unnecessary , excessive resource commitment in schools resources and to a degree that is far removed from the ‘ cost effective use of infrastructure investments ’ . |
| 22 | Each of the three cases will be examined for 90 per cent packed files , randomized to individual record positions and to a bucket that can hold ten records . |
| 23 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 24 | The transfer of energy caused by a difference in temperature between a system and its surroundings or between a system and another system is called heat . |
| 25 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 26 | There are similar provisions in relation to individual restrictions regulating minimum resale prices or charges as between a manufacturer and a retailer . |
| 27 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 28 | Wearing a black , gold-embroidered silk cloak over a finely woven shamma , he came across the room to greet us , shook hands and with a smile and a gesture invited us to be seated . |
| 29 | The only safe definition is negative : it is a school which admits pupils of all academic standards and without a test or assessment of ability ( save in so far as that may be used to secure what came to be known as ‘ a balanced intake ’ ) . |
| 30 | It says , DataGate will be able to data crunch — in the same way as a traditional mainframes but on a Unix or Windows NT server — maintaining mainframe-like data security and integrity features . |