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

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1 I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding .
2 in respect of third party risks as complies with the requirements of Part VI , Road Traffic Act 1988 .
3 ‘ in respect of third party risks as complies with the requirements of Part VI Road Traffic Act 1988 ’ .
4 ‘ in respect of third party risks as complies with the requirements of Part VI , Road Traffic Act 1988 ’ .
5 Rollin quotes some biblical examples of regulations which , as he quaintly puts it , ‘ bespeak an eloquent awareness of the status of animals as ends in themselves ’ ( 52 ) .
6 When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll .
7 The programmes of study for each key stage provide opportunities to use units as links between key stages .
8 Notice that there will not be quite so many trajectories as points on the top face of B since trajectories will , in general , intersect this plane in a large ( possibly infinite ) number of points .
9 This adventurous and stylish design uses classical columns as supports with hooped timber arches to provide a real felling of movement as it sweeps away in a gentle curve .
10 The theory behind the stock editor approach was that one person ( or group of people ) working full time on the bookstock could achieve a more penetrating and unified approach , and that the stock editor could pay more detailed attention to such matters as checks on withdrawals , coverage of specialist reviews , and the perusal of lists of secondhand books .
11 In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) .
12 Windows reflect various colours as smudges in the dusk .
13 The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century .
14 Some people I mean , Elsie loves cleaning things so she 's spends all her time waxing things cos has to be cleaned very carefully .
15 Diana has targeted 600 local businesses as recruits to the NLBA with the aim to create a thriving business community .
16 It rejects what other conceptions of law accept : that people can have distinctly legal rights as trumps over what would otherwise be the best future properly understood .
17 The addition and removal of sub-assemblies and components from the tree may also create difficulties as jumps between " branches " may be inadvertently created or breaks produced making the data inaccessible through the tree structure .
18 D. Near the steelworks there are many engineering works , making such things as crankshafts for car engines , turbines for power stations , jet engines for aircraft and the tools and parts for other industrial machinery , i.e. machine tools .
19 Obviously , significant radiations will appear as marked increases , and extinctions as decreases of diversity , while the degree to which free migration is inhibited by geographic barriers , thereby promoting genetic isolation according to the classic model ( Mayr , 1963 ) , should be expressed by the ratio of endemic to pandemic organisms .
20 Labov comments as follows on both of these traditions of sociolinguistic research :
21 In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani :
22 These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet .
23 The underlying functions and motivational causation are , however , different , for the chimpanzee 's behaviour does not occur in the same setting of structured kinship and family relations as happens in man .
24 Carter said , ‘ We 're using the other rooms as billets for the men . ’
25 The successful candidate will be expected to prepare solids by solid state reaction , and test the function of the materials as electrodes in prototype batteries .
26 Thus , although the legal model may prevent directors from regarding third party interests as ends in their own right , it is arguable that it is consistent with the directors ' obligations to the shareholders for the company to sacrifice profits in order to protect them given these possible relationships with shareholder utility .
27 title page for edition and year of publication ; 2. contents page for book 's overall structure ; 3. index for key entries and emphases ; 4. chapter headings as signposts to detailed contents ; 5. first and last chapters for aims and conclusions ; 6. first and last paragraphs of each chapter for summaries ; 7. section sub-headings for signposts on detailed arguments ; and 8. first and last sentences of paragraphs for detailed arguments .
28 He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms :
29 For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions .
30 Men tend to see children as annexes to their own selves .
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