Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The claims which they make for the consequences of literacy belong to the same tradition . |
| 4 | What does this document say about the issues at hand ? |
| 5 | It is very stable , very comfortable ( forget about the layers of foam mat to pad the seat ) and sufficiently directionally stable to be a real pleasure on coastal trips . |
| 6 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
| 7 | Public attention to literacy often focusses on either ‘ illiteracy ’ — the problems many adults encounter with the requirements of reading and writing in the modern world — or with professional — often literary — writing . |
| 8 | Free in San Francisco to explore Chinatown , browse in the shops of Fisherman 's Wharf , ride a cable-car up and down the steep streets or visit the grim fortress of Alcatraz . |
| 9 | The first four children appear in the archives with regularity , as does Francis , a child born to Elizabeth and Lord John Russel , a man she married some eight years after the death of Thomas Hoby in Paris in 1566 . |
| 10 | An above average number of companies in the computer , telecommunications and microelectronics sectors appear in the lists of Queen 's Awards to Industry , published this morning . |
| 11 | Gone were such controversial elements as the plans to abolish security of tenure for civil servants , to enable public-sector wages and state pensions to be reduced , and to give the federal government a decisive say in the finances of state and municipal governments . |
| 12 | In Islington strange creatures appear on the streets at midday . |
| 13 | Gurney 's poems celebrate his love of the Gloucestershire countryside with the same unsentimental vigour as they report on the realities of trench warfare and chart his gradual descent into madness . |
| 14 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 15 | Others squat on the branches of forest trees with their roots dangling beneath them in the humid air . |
| 16 | The concept of the ‘ biographical career ’ is central to this approach as it allows consideration of the uniqueness of individual biographies , the meanings which individuals attach to the concepts of age and ageing , and how these change over time ( Johnson , 1978 ; Fairhurst and Lightup , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | To take the latter first , the New Critics clearly come very close to the Formalists and the Prague School in the importance they attach to the ideas of structure and interrelatedness ( they even occasionally called themselves formalists ) , and in their insistence on the objective character of criticism and the distinction of the author and the reader from the text . |
| 18 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 19 | One day he heard Rain Cloud say to the drops of water , ‘ Be quiet , stop quarrelling . |
| 20 | ( Neurotransmitters are chemicals that leap across the gaps between nerve cells to transmit messages in the central nervous system . ) |
| 21 | I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature . |
| 22 | Break through the mists of earth , the weight of the clod , |
| 23 | Support for the criteria of merit , need , equality , and entitlement is explored among different groups in the population . |
| 24 | SCAD — Support for the children of adult drinkers — talks to children as young as 12 and also those who 've grown-up with the problem , but are still trying to deal with it . |
| 25 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 26 | Is it the sullen sky , small and mean in winter , the rank dank smell of piss sharp through your nostrils when you walk below the tracks at Gospel Oak or beneath the highway in the Edgware Road ? |
| 27 | The images together speak of the losses within language incurred through the passages of migration — losses accrued through violation , silence and often subtlety . |
| 28 | Turn left at the Tabernacle Chapel and climb past the farms of Ty Mawr and Upper House to a mountain gate . |
| 29 | It follows , of course , that service contracts are ineffective if they conflict with the Articles of Association of the company . |
| 30 | Over the years since union , there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union . |