Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 2 | But about lunch-time the drunks began to look in . |
| 3 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 4 | Out of costume , he wore Lucie 's cut-down clothes , and would watch for hours the barons of raw meat swing and drip , swing and drip , over wood planks dyed permanently blood-red . |
| 5 | ‘ The task of preparing for freedom the races which can not as yet govern themselves ’ , he wrote , ‘ is the supreme duty of those who can . |
| 6 | For generations the Scots kept their whisky to themselves , distilling it in homes and farmhouses throughout the Highlands , Islands and glens alike . |
| 7 | When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive . |
| 8 | If , for instance the openings of the coronary arteries are involved by the syphilitic process , the swelling of the tissues after treatment may lead to blockage and sudden death . |
| 9 | Consider for instance the Riders . |
| 10 | Broadly speaking , this theory states that stress or dissatisfaction is more likely to be experienced by an individual if her/his ranks are discrepant — for instance the ranks associated with income , education and ethnic group . |
| 11 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 12 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |
| 13 | For instance the letters h and n , or c and e are easily confused . |
| 14 | For instance the names of residents were used not only for personal records , but also for certain financial accounts , and for day-to-day tasks such as preparing menus and issuing medicines ; the statistics about the dependency levels of residents were periodically collated from individual records and passed to the headquarters , and so on . |
| 15 | The same interests appear even in slighter work : for instance the backs of the boys jumping to the pipe on an enchanting pelike ( fig. 90 ; one of the new shapes , a version of the one-piece amphora ) . |
| 16 | Some minor differences , for instance the angles at which tools had been applied to surfaces , might indicate the hands of separate craftsmen ( ibid. , p. 75 ) . |
| 17 | For instance the responsibilities of the four officers were rearranged to reflect the structure of the first resolution conceptual model ; the OIC personally addressed the issue of developing performance indicators for the system as a whole and the associated sub-systems ; and measures were put in hand to improve the handover of information about residents between shifts . |
| 18 | As the statistics in Table 8 indicate , heavy physical work during pregnancy ( see for instance the categories of unskilled labourers and unskilled construction workers ) more often lead to premature birth than conditions of other occupations . |
| 19 | It is at work in all relationships that are called symbiotic — for instance the ants milking their aphid ‘ cattle ’ ( page 181 ) . |
| 20 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 21 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 22 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 23 | Hopefully with Mick O'Toole 's son Kieran acting as agent the rides should soon mount up and with them will come the winners . |
| 24 | There are also the foreseeable difficulties that emerge when one takes as the basis for study the concepts of ‘ normal ’ and ‘ typical ’ children . |
| 25 | For centuries the followers of the Messiah had combined a shrewd business sense with the world of prayer and devotion to their prophet . |
| 26 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 27 | Crudely expressed , the librarian 's aim must be to acquire for stock the materials which are likely to be most frequently used . |
| 28 | Another client was not particularly impressed with the new Oxford Street branch of For Eyes the opticians . |
| 29 | He lovingly picked out for Waddesdon the deks of Kings and carpets of emperors . |
| 30 | Easily Accessible : For walkers the Dales Way passes by and the Pennine Way ( stretching for 185 miles from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders ) can be reached near Malham . |