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

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1 These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems .
2 At the time , and indeed until much later , I had no knowledge of Mrs Castle 's objections or of the many discussions that had taken place on this subject at government level .
3 Clearly he was not an opponent of royal authority , or of secular policies , or of the warlike activities that these policies required , or even of Rufus himself .
4 Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured .
5 Our minds ca n't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in , but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols .
6 But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed .
7 There is , however , always the problem of knowing whether the fault in the mediation process lies in the validity of the principle or in the particular techniques that have been used to operationalize it .
8 For the small producer , subcontracting to a TNC , the system is prohibitively expensive and the expertise required to run it is considerable , so it tends to be controlled by TNCs , or by the gargantuan retailers that they supply .
9 Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area .
10 Already by the mid 1970s it appeared , however , that neutralisation under Great Power guarantees as elaborated by Malaysia was acceptable neither to the majority of Southeast Asian states nor to the external powers that count .
11 In my opinion , the sooner that we return to serious discussion about the government of the Province , and about the other considerations that were invested in the earlier talks , the better the people of Northern Ireland will be served .
12 He remembered that they had forgotten about dusk and about twilight on Renascia and about the strange tricks that the shadows could play .
13 Inevitably , policy failures were attributed to the government and its officials , when the blame lay more widely with the whole of the community and in particular with the strong British dislike both for rethinking an entire situation and for the radical changes that might have to follow from such a reconsideration .
14 Frey 's attempt to discredit these ‘ simple ’ desires will not work here ; and for the same reasons that it was finally discredited earlier in this chapter .
15 In the same manner and for the same reasons that Ravenna became the capital for the western part of the Roman Empire , the lagoons on the northern shore of the Adriatic became a refuge for people fleeing from barbarian attack .
16 The programme of work is based on the assumption that it will have implications for addiction studies , policy studies , prevention studies and industrial studies generally , and for the particular disciplines that will be brought together in the Centre .
17 The French State was fashioned in a Europe with a wide variety of political forms but , once it was created , it changed the terms of competition and of survival for lesser powers and for the ramshackle empires that in part covered these principalities .
18 He therefore had a lively sense of what the Library 's readers expect and require , and of the scholarly standards that the Library must maintain .
19 She read her books with an intense concentration — and she learned what Johnny had to do , and of the terrible odds that were stacked against him ; for as she , in her time , moved towards the middle of July , she knew that , for Johnny , it was August ; and in one of her books she learned that it was in August , between the 8th and the 15th , that the most heavily concentrated forces of enemy bombers had been sent against the military installations , and the ports and airfields of Britain .
20 Secondly , the LEAs will be required to delegate many of their responsibilities for the management and control of the schools ' budget share , and for the appointment and dismissal of staff , to the governing bodies of the schools ( and of the larger colleges that remain under LEA control ) .
21 So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done .
22 And underneath the lofty claims that they were fulfilling the will of God and freeing the kingdom from oppression and tyranny , and the open attacks on the regent 's actions , there were still hints of the desire to come to terms , which reflect their awareness of how shaky the basis of their self-defence was .
23 While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory .
24 ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said .
25 Behaviour comes about as a result of the interaction of these mental processes with each other and with the environmental stimuli that are constantly impinging upon our sensory systems .
26 When will the Opposition tell Labour councils to open those houses , and get the homeless off the streets and into the empty dwellings that those Labour authorities control ?
27 So alright , we 're gon na filter the water that goes into that , but the stuff inside the pipes and inside the little waterways that through the cooling bars , are still got stuff in .
28 The European Regional Development Fund ( ERDF ) was finally established in 1975 , together with general agreement on the definition of a region , on the criteria for determining eligibility for assistance and upon the general characteristics that policies should possess .
29 In open battle and in the plundering expeditions that constituted the normal form of aggressive warfare , they needed the backing of archers , both mounted and on foot , and of numerous infantrymen .
30 The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale .
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