Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIO DE JANEIRO ( AP ) — Luis Sales , head of a Brazilian advertising agency , was freed unharmed after being held by kidnappers for two months . |
| 2 | HATS OFF Delighted workers cheer pay cut boss Richard |
| 3 | With the abandonment of transportation , prison sentences and penal servitude had correspondingly assumed their pivotal role within the criminal justice system , and the 1850s also saw the beginnings of reformatory institutions for young offenders . |
| 4 | Prisons and institutions for young offenders were closing down , probation was thriving , and more time was allowed to pay fines . |
| 5 | It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , there is very often a total absence of any consideration within our residential institutions for sexual needs of those within them ; accompanied by stern suppression of any sexual relationship which may develop . |
| 7 | Gold and silver , once reserved for the service of cults and sovereigns , were displayed as plate by corporations like the City of London , the Inns of Court the City Companies ( fig. 40 ) or the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge and embodied as medals awarded by academies and other institutions for distinguished contributions to many fields of learning and professional activities ( Plate K ) . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Modern critics of an attitude theory have often argued , not unconvincingly , that the methods of reasoning used in support of ethical views , or of trying to reach agreement on them by a fair minded exchange of views between reasonable persons , neither need be , nor commonly are , different from those used in factual matters . |
| 9 | Surely there is no convention that judges may adjust their views about legal rights for purely strategic reasons . |
| 10 | In the longer term self-help groups may emerge , where librarians can pool views about recent publications , or library suppliers may see openings for a more active approach . |
| 11 | CONFLICTING views about economic prospects emerged in two surveys published yesterday . |
| 12 | These scales will be used to indicate mothers whose views about personal rights and maternal role conflict with their employment status . |
| 13 | Some may think that a mere journalist has no right to hold views about such things . |
| 14 | Still , ’ the Hungarian shrugged , ‘ my views about such things are strictly conventional . |
| 15 | Lib-Dem chiefs also plan to talk to prostitutes to find out their views about legalised brothels . |
| 16 | Boyle also spoke of her colleagues ' traditionally mixed views about general practitioners . |
| 17 | Perhaps like Groucho Marx they have other views about exclusive clubs . |
| 18 | And yet Golding is nothing like a political novelist in terms of British domestic politics , and his views about political parties , whatever they are , are not publicly a part of his fiction . |
| 19 | We know that different people hold different views about moral issues that they all treat as of great importance . |
| 20 | He had no such rigid views about any matters of political policy . |
| 21 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 22 | In this respect Gandhi propounds , views about particular religions similar to those of Tillich . |
| 23 | In discussion sessions it was not unusual for groups of participants to have strong and very different views about particular tasks ! |
| 24 | It also intends to develop greater object extensions using the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker — to increase the interoperabilty and communication of objects between Oracle-based tools and foreign software . |
| 25 | This , in turn , might account for our difficulty in dealing with objects through academic studies dominated by language . |
| 26 | Jobcentres , commercial agencies , hospital noticeboards , shop windows and vacancy boards on industrial estates are sources of vacancies for all ages . |
| 27 | As the total number of filled vacancies for all ages was 652,306 , this means that juveniles accounted for about 20% of all those finding employment through the exchanges . |
| 28 | The lengthy seizure of alien priories provides an obvious explanation for this , but the Black Death , of course , also multiplied vacancies for all patrons to exploit . |
| 29 | Vacancies for chief executives and managing directors have risen by more than one-third in the last year , while senior managerial vacancies have increased by 17.4 p.c . |
| 30 | City : Vacancies for top jobs up a third |