Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HUNDREDS of Tibetans have been imprisoned since late 1987 for taking part in demonstrations in favour of Tibetan independence from China or for their peaceful expression of dissent from Government policies in Tibet . |
| 2 | Simplicity There is no need for countries to decide what constitutes the appropriate exchange rate or for their general agreement on whether deficit or surplus countries are responsible for the adjustment burden . |
| 3 | It is , however , extremely rare for a Bill to be rejected , or for its main proposals to be overturned by amendment , except by lapsing upon the dissolution of a Parliament . |
| 4 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 5 | Feeling that little was to be gained by personal protest either to the BBC or through their local MP to Parliament , they decided that the best approach was to issue a Manifesto . |
| 6 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 7 | However , under section 15 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 it is lawful for a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near his own place of work ‘ for the purpose only of peacefully obtaining or communicating information , or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working . ’ |
| 8 | Once accepted as setting up a trust , this no doubt gives the beneficiary , who is also the addressee , an action against the heir , or against whatever other beneficiary of the estate is in possession of the object in question . |
| 9 | Western diplomats in Beirut believed that the delay was due to an internal dispute among the kidnap groups , or with their radical supporters in Iran , over the political value of each hostage , as well as concern among the kidnappers about their personal protection from future prosecution . |
| 10 | They were the faces of people concerned predominantly either with what people thought about their behaviour , property , social standing , or with their own judgment of other people 's behaviour , property , social standing . |
| 11 | You share your identity with your mates at work or with your own age at school , not with your elder brother . |
| 12 | It is not known whether Acca 's expulsion was connected with the temporary deposition of Ceolwulf or with his subsequent restoration in the same year , or whether it was a totally unrelated crisis . |
| 13 | With gloss and shine being the buzz words for hair ‘ 92 , Salon Selectives have introduced a new spray-in , Leave-In Conditioner — Type L. Loaded with vitamins and natural ingredients , this ultralight spray can be used instead of or alongside your normal conditioner for a silky smooth shine . |
| 14 | So the media of prose and verse ‘ pivot ’ too , shifting in value or significance as a character moves within the society of the play , or within its internal hierarchy of language and values . |
| 15 | So you must contrive a number of situations in which character is revealed , either directly in talk or in action or in what other people in your book , the vestigial " other suspects ' , have to say . |
| 16 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 17 | HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ . |
| 18 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 19 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |
| 20 | The degree to which the ESSE/L Project can be seen to be radical either as an initiative , or in its actual impact in schools , depends on how close it comes to one or other of these doctrines . |
| 21 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 22 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 23 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 24 | Well , I suggest that Toby arranges to be on the trip and that you go with him , either as his close friend or in your professional capacity as a caddie , or a bit of both . ’ |
| 25 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 26 | It is relative to what we perceive as being possible , through our knowledge of the experience of others , or from our own experiences in different periods of our lives . |
| 27 | You may also like to obtain health leaflets SA40 and SA41 from your ABTA Travel Agent or from your local Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 28 | Jigsaw Creator is excellent , in particular in its ability to allow jigsaws to be made from either the ready made pictures , or from your own creations in the Art Alive module , or from the Make a Monster game . |
| 29 | Sovereignty is the , we 'll turn to it later , we 'll look at sovereignty again , but linked to sovereignty is the idea that you can make legislation , you can pass laws and then you can say these laws are going to be carried out , implemented by courts followed by sanctions though very little law is related to foreign policy because the British government or the Russian government or the United States government ca n't make laws which apply worldwide or outside its own area of claimed sovereignty so there is a difference of the environment in which foreign policy takes place . |
| 30 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |