Example sentences of "[prep] the [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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1 | I have been asked to give my views on the most important events and changes in the ‘ domain of art and artistic culture ’ over the last ten years , which I have agreed to do , as much out of friendship for the Giornale dell'Arte ( and its editor ) as out of vanity ( let's be honest ) . |
2 | The central Cour Puget will house a display of Martin Desjardins ' sculptures originally made for the place des Victoires in Paris ‘ to the glory of Louis XIV ’ . |
3 | The project has been mounted by an international team , led by Paola Marini of the Museo Civico in Bassano , Beverly Louise Brown for the Kimbell , Filippa Aliberti Gaudioso for the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici del Veneto , and the distinguished Bassano scholars , Roger Rearick and Alessandro Ballarin . |
4 | ‘ We believe we have some results to show for our efforts and if anybody in South Africa , white or black , believes that opposition to sanctions represents support for the status quo , they are deluding themselves . ’ |
5 | The support for the status quo in these two areas had been ‘ soft ’ , with the public acquiescing because there appeared to be no politically workable alternative . |
6 | Beneath these divisions on policy lay deeper divisions based on economic and financial self-interest , with the prestige of Nyerere as party chairman adding weight to the argument for the status quo . |
7 | But apathy often works for the status quo . |
8 | It 's not the job of education to ensure that young people settle for the status quo . |
9 | As we shall see later in this chapter , the case for the status quo is perhaps too general and too romantic in its assessment of the value of the existing structures . |
10 | With each year that passed , peasant interest in and support for the status quo would increase . |
11 | Bowles and Gintis criticise the human capital theory as providing ‘ a good ideology for the status quo ’ and for the fact that ‘ the contribution of schooling to growth over the last half century may on balance have been negative . ’ |
12 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
13 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
14 | Few , if any , of the media commentators nowadays for the status quo . |
15 | I understand him to say that if there is a democratic vote for the status quo , it will be honoured , as will a democratic vote for independence . |
16 | Some 96 per cent of voters opted for the status quo . |
17 | The overall result of proceeding with such respect for the status quo in the countryside was the decline of agricultural production , the progressive deterioration of the social conditions of small farmers and farm labourers , and the gradual depopulation of the rural areas . |
18 | This ties in neatly with Croquet Day , which it is tomorrow , a chance for the hoi polloi ( all of us who do not play the game really ) to take up a mallet . |
19 | Well , well er well it is , because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job do n't they ? |
20 | The score for the Ballet de la raillerie , for example , shows that the two violins , two flutes and two voices mentioned in the livret do not form a six-part ensemble , but echo each other in pairs . |
21 | Some schools have asked for that to be kept for the sch er you know for them as well . |
22 | Although the courts have not expressly said so , it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus . |
23 | The answer to these questions ( particularly the last ) has important ramifications for the raison d'etre of the Chinese Wall mechanism . |
24 | Glial growth factors , proteins that are mitogenic for Schwann cells , and several ligands for the p185 erbB2 receptor , are products of the same gene . |
25 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |
26 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
27 | The women must already have been there , for the maître d'hôtel brought them immediately . |
28 | We shall be seeing more of this yacht , which has already been chosen as the class for the Tour de France à la Voile race in 1992/93 . |
29 | ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France . |
30 | It turned out to be the main dropping off point for the Tour de France and was at its noisiest when most civilized people were asleep . |