Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They aim to finance it by attracting a minimum of one million households paying £10 a month each for access to the football-only channel . |
| 2 | I take that as part of the Labour party 's approach to defence procurement , which is to tick off each individual project , factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it . |
| 3 | Right , all I was going to ask was , have you , have you started a new sentence there , or have you got that as part of the original sentence ? |
| 4 | He emphasises how the uniformity of this architecture contrasts with the marked regionalisation seen in artefacts and views this as evidence for the native origin of the tradition . |
| 5 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 6 | All honours candidates have to undertake a research project and submit a report on this as part of the final examination . |
| 7 | In May 1988 , the Kenyan government , dependent on the World Bank for a structural adjustment loan , agreed to this as part of the approved Industrial Sector Adjustment programme . |
| 8 | We would will this as part of the social contract because our own selfishness would enable us to see its necessity . |
| 9 | We can characterise this as rule by the non-elected with power in the hands of a bureaucratic elite . |
| 10 | The mutual recognition provisions apply where applications are made simultaneously or within a short interval of one another for admission of the same securities to official listing on stock exchanges in two or more member states . |
| 11 | I say this of course in the late twentieth century . |
| 12 | She had posted off a length of pale blue silk for Jennifer 's dress , and another of velvet in the same shade for Christopher 's page-boy suit . |
| 13 | Rapid acceleration gave pilots a false nose-up sense and they were correcting this with nose-down on the flying controls and flying into the ground . |
| 14 | The dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the categories for a word , the corpus supplements this with information about the actual usage of the word . |
| 15 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 16 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
| 17 | We used this in conjunction with the other variables to assist in exploring internal community norms of language . |
| 18 | Brenda 's initial response to Trevor 's " even if " e's in is car , man " is the London English " I would n't sleep in " is car " ( line 10 ) : but she reaffirms this in Creole in the same turn ( me na sleep in " is car ) and furthermore gives her reason : " for me have me bed at home " . |
| 19 | Fewer do this in response to the next question , presumably because it is not so obvious an effect unless the required figures are being directly pointed at . |
| 20 | Attendances at open air masses were reportedly hundreds of thousands below the Vatican 's expectations , and analysts attributed this in part to the increasing appeal of Protestant evangelism and Afro-Brazilian sects . |
| 21 | And I 've said this er I 've said this in week to the civil service unions , I never did believe in lobbying Parliament . |
| 22 | The letters were placed in the House of Commons library , with a covering note from Mr Nicholas Ridley , the present Trade Secretary , to Mr Gordon Brown , Labour 's trade spokesman , saying he had done this in view of the public interest . |
| 23 | With materials designed to highlight language items , we have an indication of how materials designers approach the question of video 's role in the lesson.I will look at this in relation to the traditional stages of a language lesson , presentation , practice , reinforcement , and to the elicitation stage some teachers introduce before presentation . |
| 24 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 25 | Erato has clearly borne this in mind with the latest batch of eight mid-price ‘ Emeraudes ’ , and thankfully without having to resort to second-rate orchestras , conductors , and engineering ( all are DDD recordings ) . |
| 26 | We need to bear this in mind in the next chapter when we consider some of the problems of lexical retrieval experienced by patients exhibiting an acquired language disorder . |
| 27 | The department agreed to consider this in consultation with the local authority associations . |
| 28 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 29 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 30 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |