Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |
| 2 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 3 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 4 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) . |
| 10 | There is a considerable wish to have efficiency in enterprises , and to bring this about the jobs of men and women have been simplified . |
| 11 | It was by no means uncommon for teachers to switch from one type of grouping to another as the activities of individuals and groups of children changed . |
| 12 | Most discussion of agency has focused on the attributability of the actions of one State to another for the purposes of liability . |
| 13 | If the owner snatches the shoes back , he will have stolen them for they belong to another for the purposes of theft . |
| 14 | As a result , the A and B lists provide just over half of the records on daytime Radio 1 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |
| 19 | While the original version of Engelbart 's famous paper showed this structure , subsequent reprintings of the paper have removed that feature — this despite the claims by Engelbart that his group found such presentation extremely helpful . |
| 20 | Some of the warnings in Roger Bullock 's chapter about faulty use of information are demonstrated in the points made by Martin Knapp about the use of cost information to come to flawed conclusions . |
| 21 | Responding to some of the charges on Sept. 10 , Bhutto claimed that she was " honest " and dismissed the allegations against her as " an act of desperation " on the part of the President . |
| 22 | were some of the directors of P L C also directors of developments ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Constant rain turned some of the walkways into quagmires . |