Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away .
2 He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane .
3 Diana admits that she was n't easy to handle during that baptism of fire .
4 A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense .
5 Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date .
6 Any substance that tends to re-awaken the craving for the primary addictive " drug of choice " is cross-addictive with that drug of choice .
7 The Central Statistical Office has confirmed that census of production data collected under the 1992 Standard Industrial Classification survey will show separate employee statistics for the book publishing sector .
8 I 'd imagine there 'd be people maybe down and outs maybe tramps sleep in that park with newspaper round them or something .
9 Thus , for example , the accounts and budget might be presented in detail but only total net expenditure of each division of service is compared with budget , showing the over-/under-spending and explaining broadly the reasons for any variance .
10 Standard groupings — for each division of service , these groupings represent the main areas of expenditure and income , e.g. employees , premises , transport , etc .
11 But then , for each division of service , a subjective analysis is provided , e.g. salaries , premises , etc .
12 The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future .
13 To describe a process ' first step behaviour we will thus use three levels of syntax : essentially one for each variety of choice .
14 In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved .
15 That division in sensibility , which still haunts the English middle classes , between the unsatisfactory domestic environments of cities , and the idyll of a cottage in the country , will be the subject of a later chapter .
16 The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality .
17 IBM claims that the Power/4 implements a unique parallel processing architecture , with memory bottlenecks reduced by the use of local memory for each processor in addition to shared system memory , eliminating the need for continuous updating of the cache for each processor unless the data is actually shared .
18 Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor .
19 This involves the court ordering a third party who owes your debtor money to pay that money into court instead of to your debtor .
20 Unless pressure is put on the Government , they will simply substitute that money for money that they were going to spend in the regions anyway , and the regions will not receive any direct benefit , although that was the whole purpose of the RECHAR regulations .
21 The people of my constituency are appalled that Monmouth borough council has millions of pounds tied up from the sale of council houses and can not use that money for housing .
22 The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting .
23 Why does Britain have the worst maternity rights , the fewest equal opportunities and the least protection against poverty pay ?
24 As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone .
25 Brush each strip of pastry with a little melted butter and then sandwich together in threes .
26 With unbacked hessian , you place a length of hessian onto a pasted wall , then gently press each strip in place with a roller .
27 As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties .
28 Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable .
29 The Finance Ministry announced on March 1 that payment of interest arrears to the " London Club " of creditor banks would be frozen until the banks agreed to reduce its debt of US$11,000 million .
30 The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system .
  Next page