Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few illustrations survive of the interiors of funeral furnishing establishments prior to the introduction of the camera . |
| 2 | There is a high correlation between the number of pages , number of days and the number of overall reports of particular cases , and these measures confirm the view that some cases predominate in the newspapers . |
| 3 | Some males return to the ponds on subsequent nights , but because there are few females around , very little happens . |
| 4 | Some courses draw on the students ' own experience , usually in the workplace . |
| 5 | Some chapters look at the manifestations of urban breakdown-John Benyon and John Solomos writing about racial conflict and disorder , for example — others , like Robert Reiner , at the evidence on rising crime rates and the complex ethical dilemmas which are often presented as simple . |
| 6 | Such taxes begin with the levies imposed by lay rulers to raise money for the crusades ( as the kings of England and France did for the Second and Third Crusades ) . |
| 7 | The auditor is not concerned with policy , but with its effects and whether such effects correspond with the intentions of the policy . |
| 8 | The auditor is concerned with investigating the outcomes of policy and whether such effects correspond with the intentions of the policy . |
| 9 | We may in such circumstances act on the instructions of the Board of Directors , provided we are sure they are mandated to act . |
| 10 | Such statements derive from the meetings of a specially convened working party on national objectives , but as a preliminary to this a national debate on the purposes of primary education has already taken place in 1978 , culminating in a widely publicised and widely representative National Seminar on the Content of Primary Education . |
| 11 | All of these factors weaken the ties that such businesses have with the communities in which they are located and make it less difficult for them to close down and/or relocate if and when business conditions deteriorate in one country relative to other countries . |
| 12 | As Raymond Williams puts it , speaking not specifically about the family but more generally about myths of a rural past which was happier and more stable , such myths stem from the contradictions of the present which are difficult to contain . |
| 13 | Nominal accounts — these accounts deal with the profits and losses of the business and include the sales account , purchases account and all expense accounts . |
| 14 | The figures quoted in these illustrations comply with the rates of return ( and other factors ) as set out on the LAUTRO bases , the higher illustration representing a future rate of return of 13% per annum and the lower illustration representing a future rate of return of 8 ½%; per annum . |
| 15 | The figures quoted in these illustrations comply with the rates of return and other factors set out in the Lautro bases , the higher illustration representing a future rate of return of 10.5% per annum and the lower illustration representing a future rate of return of 7% per annum . |
| 16 | The chief safeguard for freedom here is that these rules apply to the governors as well as the governed . |
| 17 | These rules deal with the requirements of English law as to the actual method of service and also set out the procedure for securing official assistance in the transmission of documents for service overseas . |
| 18 | These shortcomings lie behind the proposals and policies outlined by the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , Sir Roy Griffiths ( 1988 ) and the government in its White Paper , Caring for people ( 1989 ) . |
| 19 | In Philippe Sollers 's most recent works ( Le Coeur absolu ( 1987 ) and Les Folies françaises ( 1988 ) ) , the playful exploration of the drama of the male subject 's sexual psyche is frequently the central theme : these texts hover between the categories of fiction , literary essay and autobiography . |
| 20 | Sir , one has to have in these matters regard to the practicalities of the situation . |
| 21 | The second case concerns a somewhat lesser man : Guillaume-Sanche de Pommiers , damoiseau , who spoke on behalf of his two co-heirs and co-seigneurs , pierre and Pierre-Amanieu de Pommiers , when he acknowledged that they ‘ held in fee , immediately from the … king of England , lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine , the castle of Pommiers with the honour , and all that these co-heirs hold in the parishes of Morizès and Escaude , and at Tremblet , and the toll which they levy on land at Garges , near La Réole ’ . |
| 22 | If these joyriders crash into the barriers they will know what has hit them . |
| 23 | Many of these conventions fall into the categories of abbreviation and omission . |
| 24 | … show how many of these questions apply across the arts curriculum and as such are easily ‘ borrowed ’ by music , dance , English or drama teachers ; |
| 25 | It must be noted that these figures refer to the degrees obtained by all entrants in each category , and not just those graduating , as in Bourner and Hamed 's study . |
| 26 | We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support . |
| 27 | In this project we shall examine what preconceptions teenagers have about driving and how these preconceptions change as a functions of age and first-hand experience of driving . |
| 28 | It is important to emphasise that , as the competences identified by these bodies emerge from the Standards Development Programme , these will be incorporated into the appropriate SCOTVEC provision : National Certificate Modules , Higher National Units or Workplace-assessed Units . |
| 29 | Three out of four of these accidents fix on the properties of individual men as decisive variables directing the course of events : had Churchill been a less charismatic politician Britain might have given up her fight against Germany ; had Franco permitted an assault on Gibraltar it would probably have fallen ; and if Mussolini had not ‘ taken it into his head ’ to invade Greece , Hitler would have moved into Russia . |
| 30 | Half of these children belong to the families of the unemployed , and many belong to families who have work but at a desperately low rate of pay . |