Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 2 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 3 | With the development of the capitalist mode of production there is an intensification of two principal contradictions within capitalism ; that between the forces of production and the social relations of production , and that between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 5 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 6 | Most discussion of agency has focused on the attributability of the actions of one State to another for the purposes of liability . |
| 7 | If the owner snatches the shoes back , he will have stolen them for they belong to another for the purposes of theft . |
| 8 | As a result , the A and B lists provide just over half of the records on daytime Radio 1 . |
| 9 | The 14 group practices and five singlehanded practices identified by the sampling technique represented 66 or 16% of the 403 general practitioners responsible to Berkshire family health services authority , and the sample consisted of half of the claims for night visits from these doctors , a total of 1988 visits . |
| 10 | Just under half of the places on trust boards have gone to women — a development which was welcomed yesterday by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 11 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 12 | The general regulation of economic and social life at the national level , and relations with other nation states , require a complex apparatus of government and administration , parties with broadly formulated aims and policies , and competition between parties ; but there is also a need for more direct and immediate means of political action , which would allow the effective expression of particular grievances and interests , counter some of the consequences of centralization and bureaucratic administration and make possible a more continuous practical participation by large numbers of citizens in determining the quality of their lives . |
| 13 | Erm what I 've mentioned then on the handout is some stuff about um er the business of traumagenic dynamics and the possibility that some of the consequences of child sex abuse cold be thought of as as er post-traumatic stress disorder . |
| 14 | While the basic nineteenth-century response to poverty was to try to strengthen older institutions , some of the consequences of urbanization and industrialization posed problems for which entirely new responses were necessary . |
| 15 | Some of the consequences of vision screening will be in the area of correction or remediation as well as in identifying problems with sight and influencing educational placements . |
| 16 | Maguire ( 1985 ) investigated the reasons for poor nurse-to-patient communication and gave examples of some of the consequences in relation to diagnoses ; to treatment ; to investigations ; and to potential complications which became actual problems . |
| 17 | Some of the objects on show are clearly and satisfyingly ‘ fake ’ , in the sense that their sole intention is deception for some form of gain . |
| 18 | Some of the objects on show are drawn from the collection of the late Jerome Strauss who assembled a group of 2,400 pieces , donated to the museum after his death in 1979 . |
| 19 | Though some of the effects of competition , particularly on the BBC , were beneficial , others were not . |
| 20 | It 's the part that can be told in an article which is tracing some of the effects of heterosexism . |
| 21 | The insulin like growth factors are thought to mediate some of the effects of growth hormone on tissues . |
| 22 | Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) : |
| 23 | Some of the effects of caerulein infusion have been reproduced in this study by exogenous platelet activating factor and the results indicate that platelet activating factor administered in a single dose by itself can induce pancreatitis with typical enlargement of the pancreas and inflammatory changes in the tissue as well as in the increase in plasma amylase concentration . |
| 24 | Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English . |
| 25 | Some of the effects of loss can be explored by using the idea of suffering . |
| 26 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 27 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 28 | However , some of the improvements to functionality are of marginal importance to the average financial user . |
| 29 | The librarian listed the following as some of the improvements in library use to which the project had contributed : ( 1 ) improved general use in the past year during lesson time , particularly in IS and history ; |
| 30 | Her account has some of the qualities of myth in validating shared beliefs and providing a charter for social action . |