Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lyle , although a commoner , has a very distinguished genealogy , for where the aristocracy are concerned , the further back they go , the better they get . |
| 2 | As for where the monarchy goes , that matters more . |
| 3 | You are still looking for where the boy could have been ? ’ |
| 4 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) In relation to building control , food hygiene and consultation with the lire authority , subsections ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of this section shall not apply to the application for or the making of a provisional grant of a licence under section 26(2) of this Act but shall apply to the application for affirmation and to the affirmation of such a grant . |
| 6 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 7 | Erm the question of the need for or the need for an orbital route has been put to our members on a number of occasions . |
| 8 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 9 | In Flanders , services are classified simply in terms of the age of the youngsters looked after or the type of service offered ( for example , observation and assessment ) . |
| 10 | But you 've now got a new wife or girlfriend and there 's a new child to look after and the money wo n't stretch . |
| 11 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 12 | It was darker indoors than out and the oil lamp was already lit in the hall . |
| 13 | The General , unfortunately , died of cholera shortly after but the locomotive survived until the 1960's at Haymarket Shed ; Edinburgh , hauling the daily goods service on the South Queensferry branch before final withdrawal from Bathgate shed . |
| 14 | This dilemma generates the paradox I have outlined above , where intellectualism and graduate recruitment become prized commodities and are publicly sought after as the organization seeks to elaborate its professionalism , but are simultaneously denigrated . |
| 15 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 16 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 17 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 18 | We require two types of jump instruction ; one ( the unconditional jump ) which always changes the program counter , and one ( the conditional jump ) which changes the program counter only if a certain condition is true ( such as that the accumulator contains a non-negative value ) ; if the condition is false , the next instruction to be executed is the one stored immediately after the jump instruction . |
| 19 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 20 | Other possible inferences , such as that the teacher was angry , would remain appropriate but would not be essential for interpretation . |
| 21 | And yet the feeling of departure is still here for although the love is strong in the face of illness or old age , the bearer of that love must inevitably leave the poet when he dies . |
| 22 | Autonomy however should not imply total independence for although the manager may divest his authority to the surveyor to run the job on site , he is still ultimately responsible and must show support at all stages . |
| 23 | The church was an excellent landlord for although the rent for the six-roomed house was modest — seven shillings and a penny per week — this included rates , repairs and decoration . |
| 24 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 25 | I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’ |
| 26 | There are more good people about than the world gives credit for . ’ |
| 27 | But it is in Between that the function of language to convey meaning is most actively questioned . |
| 28 | But if I may interrupt , how do you cope with the argument that Mr Curtis was making that if your settlement is , say , less than two and a half thousand it is no more than a large housing estate which relies on the centre of York for its functions , of service , shopping , entertainment , and therefore that the difference between that the difference between a new settlement beyond the greenbelt and peripheral development , in those terms , is no different . |
| 29 | The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur . |
| 30 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |