Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 2 | The problem of diminished sight can be reduced or corrected by using spectacles or an illuminated magnifying glass : and for those who are severely handicapped the use of specially prepared large-print books or of Braille or of tape-recordings can help considerably in retaining a measure of independence . |
| 3 | Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States . |
| 4 | But management still lay , in Britain , more with LEAs than with heads or governors because in schools — primary , secondary or special — daily management was still at some distance from the control of finance , from the decision about a school 's total allocation of teaching staff , from the establishment of policies and schemes of priority in the school 's curriculum and organization and from the presentation of the whole picture of aims , methods and performance to parents and to other members of the local community . |
| 5 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 6 | The main hypothesis is that some CSPs are socially differentiated in that they are not all used by every social group , and that people are more aware of these CSPs than of others . |
| 7 | Now Leicester need a win in their last game , and they have to hope Boro slip up in their last two , at home to Grimsby on Tuesday and at Wolves next Saturday , if they are to keep hold of second place and avoid the nerve-wracking play-offs . |
| 8 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 9 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 10 | Through the generosity of sponsors buses are available to LEAs and to schools ( which would normally combine to form a group of two or three ) and are delivered free of charge . |
| 11 | WISE vehicles are available to LEAs and to schools ( which would normally combine to form a group of two or more ) and are delivered free of charge . |
| 12 | Here thoughts about Lucy and about gems are active together and can not be given a satisfactory literal translation describing exactly the degree of similarity between Lucy and a gem . |
| 13 | Surrounded by the glorious scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park , on the banks of the river Wharfe and with views to the ancient forest of Grass Wood , Greenways has a near perfect setting . |
| 14 | More than 100 people were thought to have been killed in faction fighting in Natal and in townships around Johannesburg during March , mostly between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha but also involving the security forces . |
| 15 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |
| 16 | It is the native accent of more than 203,000,000 people and is spoken over wide areas of the United States and in parts of Canada . |
| 17 | An increase occurred in FE and in schools ; in FE there were over 20,000 more candidates ( a rise of 24% ) while in schools , the increase was 26,000 ( a rise of over 15% ) . |
| 18 | Employers could contract ‘ occupational groups ’ of employees out of SERPS and into employers ' provision ( see Groves , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | He accused the West of ignoring the plight of the Asian refugees and concentrating instead on the Western nationals held in Kuwait and in hotels in Baghdad . |
| 20 | Interactive , headquartered in Naperville , Illinois and with lines into accounts such as Motorola , Swiss Bank and AT&T , will function as the hub of Systemhouse 's midwest region . |
| 21 | There was also pressure for some degree of autonomy from minorities in Kurdestan , Azerbaijan and Baluchistan , from Turcomans in Khorasan and from Arabic-speakers in Khuzestan . |
| 22 | It highlighted the use of selective repression by the security forces and military , including the killing of students and staff at the University of San Carlos and of leaders of displaced campesinos and the unemployed . |
| 23 | A conducted tour by Peter of this very small , very flat , but very green island with breathtaking views of the Hebrides and with windsurfers taking advantage of the persistently strong wind was greatly appreciated . |
| 24 | But another set of presidential advisers , based not in the Kremlin but in offices of the Russian government , are engaged in daily trench warfare with the conservative apparatchiks who still run the bureaucracy . |
| 25 | Oh erm Not Tyneside or Northumberland except for businesses ? |
| 26 | ‘ I have done so much with Middlesbrough that at times I think it might be nice to go elsewhere and start afresh . |
| 27 | Workplace Health , Safety and Welfare — Approved Code of Practice is available from HMSO or through booksellers . |
| 28 | They are the sort of people ( and very often the same people ) that in Britain you meet in CND and in scores of cluttered offices dedicated to under-regarded and under-rewarded causes . |
| 29 | The division consisted largely of recruits from both the Soviet Ukraine and from areas of pre-1939 Poland incorporated into the USSR by the Nazi-Soviet Pact . |
| 30 | Later studies have concentrated on comparisons with attitudes to oil development in Dorset and on reactions to Chernobyl . |