Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 2 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 6 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 7 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |
| 8 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 9 | ‘ We will also keep a better check on rider 's allowances so we do n't have a situation like the one where Adrian Maguire lost several wins through riding with the wrong allowance , ’ said Michael Caulfield of the Jockeys Association , who are involved in the new system . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible . |
| 12 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 13 | New guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of adults with learning difficulties have been published by the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped . |
| 14 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 15 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 16 | In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage . |
| 17 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 18 | The Armed Forces Supreme Court sentenced 26 non-commissioned army officers to terms of imprisonment of between six and nine months for participating in the abortive military coup of Dec. 3 , 1990 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 19 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 20 | The warning came from former Liverpool defender Glenn Hysen , who knows Limpar 's strengths after playing alongside the enigmatic winger many times for Sweden . |
| 21 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 22 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |
| 24 | It indicates the significant aspects of budgeting in the public sector , the influences from the different social sciences , and the areas covered . |
| 25 | Aside from the practical aspects of caring for the young people , there was much talk of spiritual care and regeneration , so that the young men at Elpis Lodge would go out into the world ‘ imbued and enlightened with the hope of a better future ’ , and not embittered by the ill-treatment and injustice they had experienced . |
| 26 | The main meal begins with words of blessing over the unleavened bread , which symbolises the urgency of the first Passover ( Exodus 12:11 ) . |
| 27 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 28 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 29 | Accommodation offices provide information on the types of housing available locally , on college policy regarding priority for halls of residence , comparative costings , lists of housing in the private sector and considerable back-up on your legal rights , housing law , etc . |
| 30 | The shattered towns and cities of Croatia , bombarded and battered by months of shelling in the civil war . |