Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations , the much-acclaimed reductions in barriers to manufactures , trade did little for those LDC 's that were poorly placed to produce , let alone export them . |
| 2 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 3 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 4 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 5 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope for a rapprochement between our two countries , which know very little about each other , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Apart from which , we barely know each other , know very little about each other . ’ |
| 8 | The Lollipop timetable of one night stands meant that they visited seventy-two venues in twelve weeks ; although they did not venture further than St. Louis , it was exhausting and afterwards they could remember very little about each town . |
| 9 | For many freshwater hobbyists , invertebrates are a whole new departure ; we know little about many species , but one with a longer history of captive care is the Apple Snail . |
| 10 | We hear very little about those localities where people are working away quietly with encouraging results , and about the many examples of excellent collaboration that protect so many children . |
| 11 | So in 1547 Henry VIII decreed the appointment of two Masters and two Surveyors of the Woods , one each for either side of the Trent , as officers of the Court of Augmentations . |
| 12 | Labour Councillors charge community charge payers an extra seventeen pound each for those members of the public that they have urged not to pay the community charge . |
| 13 | I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths . |
| 14 | ‘ Not much of that about these days . |
| 15 | Translating Drama into an academic subject is not easy , but Pigott Smith does n't see that as any excuse . |
| 16 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 17 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 18 | And how enervating , how disappointing , how absolutely … crushing to realise that nothing has changed — over the last few decades at least — and that for many women , their primary response is still to be beautiful rather than brainy . |
| 19 | They pointed out that large numbers of patients , especially among the old , were unlikely ever to be really fit to enter normal community life , and that for many others the community care services were still woefully inadequate . |
| 20 | It noted , however , that the increase in new lending was confined to a relatively small group of countries , and that for many others , notably in Africa , there had been no improvement . |
| 21 | But when you have to face up to the fact that no one wants to know and people are more interested in the apprehension and sentencing of the offender , that for many people is even worse than the original crime . ’ |
| 22 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |
| 23 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 24 | That for many people words are grey and lifeless objects is only too apparent from the way they use them , especially in print . |
| 25 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 26 | It 's like that for many people , a large number of whom are women . |
| 27 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 28 | ‘ The Eastern Health Board also has to realise that for many people , the Royal is situated in a no go area , ’ the MP said . |
| 29 | That this unit is relatively ‘ shallow ’ genealogically speaking , i.e. that it tends to consist of two generations only and that for many couples the main tie of commitment and responsibility is the conjugal one . |
| 30 | One explanation for this may be that for many jobs it is high productivity which leads to low job satisfaction . |