Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In Benjamin 's dualistic conception , allegory refers to bits and pieces of every-day life — often discarded objects , sometimes relics — that together constitute ‘ myths ’ through which individuals in a given historical period understand the social world .
2 It will automatically calculate , for example , what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items .
3 Being able to challenge government decisions in the courts offers to groups disappointed by the outcome of the policy-formation process the prospect of re-opening the policy argument before the courts .
4 The honours year course builds on courses in physiology , pharmacology or a third-year course on brain and behaviour , but many students turn to neuroscience having done biochemistry , zoology or psychology as third-year options .
5 Playing the offside game would become a riskier business , especially against forwards with the pace of Lineker or Rush , who would be given the benefit of the doubt which at present goes to defenders .
6 One benefit deriving from advancing years is that my clerk diverts to others briefs that are devoid of interest .
7 A recent study for the California legislature showed that $1.1 billion of the $10 billion state budget goes into services for both documented and undocumented immigrants , including about $1.5 billion for education .
8 Thus glycoproteins function as cellular recognition molecules , and it seemed to me that if synapses , which are par excellence recognition and attachment points between cells , were going to be modified by training , then glycoproteins would be involved .
9 As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense .
10 Many local authorities award grants to students reading for the Bar on the same basis as University awards .
11 The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground .
12 IGGY TAVARES Ph.D looks at worms — your fish 's favourite live food — and how to obtain them .
13 Lower Mills stands between Bonds and Upper Stonehouse Mills , some of the buildings shown having now been demolished .
14 Faris ( 1968 ) , exploring the way such symbols come to represent complex conceptual domains , coined the phrase ‘ symbols of high meaning capacity ’ , which exactly fits the structural significance hair has for police ideology .
15 If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut .
16 Millions lost as trading park lies in ruins
17 Oliver Lange looks at residencies , sponsorship and other initiatives and shows how useful these can be for artists .
18 The second-year economic history course looks at changes in the world economy between 1750 and 1914 while the second-year social history course studies world urbanisation from antiquity to the present day .
19 The primary division amongst critical views lies between readings of these tales as fundamentally serious moral reflections on the state of humankind despite their undeniably comic appearance , and readings of them as essentially lighthearted tales , designed to amuse rather than to disturb , elevating solaas well above sentence .
20 Thus if Exceptional children is the preferred term , when the user looks under Children he must also be able to trace a route to the document .
21 According to an official survey , the income needs in terms of dinars of a family of four in early 1987 varied from 17 per cent above the Yugoslav average in Slovenia to 18 per cent below the average in Kosovo .
22 There was some sort of monitor with dials which I could n't make head nor tail of , two drip stands with tubes — one lot going up her nose , the other into her arm — and her right leg was coated in plaster and suspended in mid air by a pulley contraption on which the Spanish Inquisition probably held the patent .
23 However , the presence of CFCs , which have strong absorption bands in parts of the infrared spectrum , may induce their own ‘ greenhouse effect ’ within the stratosphere , thereby offsetting the carbon dioxide effect ( Ramanathan , 1975 ) .
24 Publishers now accept novels which are composed of a series of short , interlinked stories , novels where prose narrative alternates with poems and — perhaps most interestingly — the epistolary novel has been resurrected , along with the novel of fragments , where every page contains a separate ‘ statement ’ that is linked to every other statement through place , character and feeling .
25 The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there .
26 Thirdly , in generating assessment exercises from objectives the whole process took much longer than anticipated and initially reviewers were unhappy with the quality of exercises produced by contract ‘ item writers ’ .
27 This Update looks at aspects of the new beginning , from an individual view of the validation process to an account of how new national units are developed .
28 Chapter 6 examines the way in which studying physics interacts with students ' sense of identity , and looks at how this differs for male and female students .
29 SUBSIDENCE the downward movement of a site on which a building stands from causes unconnected with the actual weight of the building .
30 Milk board looks to options
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