Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister — this Minister — replied : ’ Warning signals are intended to alert officers to potential difficulties or risks in dealing with the individual . |
| 2 | One corner of the Instrumentation and Control Board activities was concerned for weeks or months with grappling with the problem . |
| 3 | This meant either working out very accurate tables of the movements of the moon or devising a chronometer which could keep time for a voyage of months or years without relying on a pendulum that would be disturbed by the rolling of the ship . |
| 4 | This supports the gravel and allows water to pass through slots or holes after passing through the gravel to produce biological and mechanical filtration . |
| 5 | They involve acquiring new knowledge and attitudes to learning including a degree of flexibility often uncomfortable to an insecure teacher and foreign to an authoritarian culture , more work and more thinking for everybody : and thinking in itself is hard work . |
| 6 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 7 | Presumably , they will choose the cheapest method and this will tend to alter the relative prices of shares and futures towards conforming with the no-arbitrage condition , that is , they will trade-the-cheapest . |
| 8 | People remove watches , jewellery and chains before venturing into the menacing streets . |
| 9 | Cave Squigs were unleashed upon the Dwarfs , but several were killed by Troll Slayers while others ran wild snapping at the Night Goblins , biting off limbs and heads before vanishing into the mountains . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed . |
| 12 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | They grabbed trays of rings and brooches before escaping in a stolen car . |
| 14 | ‘ Looking to the longer term , I believe these reforms will significantly encourage the development of larger discoveries , such as West of Shetland , where a higher rate of return is necessary to balance the increased risk and costs of operating in a more demanding deep-water environment . ’ |
| 15 | The major causes of geographical immobility include social ties and a reluctance to move away from family and friends ; indeed , the problems and costs of moving to a new location may be prohibitive for many people . |
| 16 | To reduce the complexities and costs of complying with a number of different requirements in different member states , the Community may co-ordinate , approximate or harmonise the relevant rules of national law , that is to say , lay down rules which must be adopted by all the member states . |
| 17 | It is not prurient but cruel , hip and disturbingly beautiful , intimate and playfully referential , as in Thomas and Dovana , where a naked black man and a ball-gowned white woman are caught , dancing , in a pose that both mocks and reveres the myths and fears of Gone with the Wind . |
| 18 | Try going back to sheets and blankets after sleeping under a duvet and you 'll probably agree ! |
| 19 | Joey plans to return to school and dreams of writing about the wild scenes he witnessed at Seth 's house — ‘ La Traviata in New Orleans , man , ’ he says . |
| 20 | These anxieties strengthen the importance of habit : people stick to credit types they know from experience , rather than risk the worry and difficulties of dealing with the unknown . |
| 21 | And provision by the welfare state expanded until the 1970s with benefits increasing in real value , access to higher education and health care expanding , and rights to housing for the homeless being guaranteed by law for priority groups . |
| 22 | Can I find a way of being a teacher — can I see any role models — which allows a satisfactory compromise between my career ambitions , my wish to be a good subject teacher , my desire to promote my broader educational ideals , my intention to be a ‘ real person ’ as much as I can , and my commitment to improving the status and conditions of teaching as a profession ? |
| 23 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 24 | There are both advantages and disadvantages in specialising in a particular section of the media . |
| 25 | He paused for a moment , checking the hall and stairs before stepping into the room and closing the door behind him . |
| 26 | Most of the police station meeting was taken up by discussion between council officers and the police on security for the Ks and ways of dealing with the club — to which the council , just to complicate matters further , had indemnified a £100,000 loan . |
| 27 | Even when new members are regularly taking their place on Panels , the training continues into every aspect of children 's lives , into care , physical , mental and sexual abuse , criminal activity , and ways of dealing with the variety of cases that come before them in the course of their work . |
| 28 | The narrow road , complete with alarming hairpin bends , wound its way over the mountains giving breathtaking views of lakes , fjords and waterfalls before descending into the fruit-growing region of the Hardanger Fjord . |
| 29 | An index to local geophysical surveys is nearly complete , and techniques for dealing with the digital field data , including their retrieval and presentation as profiles and maps , have been proved in a pilot study . |
| 30 | Briefing on this topic should cover the incidence of crime , whether it is usual for expatriates to employ security staff and , if so , when such staff should be on duty , and procedures for dealing with the police . |