Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |
| 2 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 3 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 4 | It is a criminal offence for the directors of a bank to withhold information to which the Bank is entitled as supervisor . |
| 5 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 6 | The episteme rather delineates what Foucault calls a ‘ cluster of transformations ’ ; these , he suggests , enable the substitution of ‘ differentiated analyses for the themes of a totalising history : |
| 7 | The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring ( Goldberg , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Evidence of Taiwan 's desire to improve relationships with mainland China was also apparent in the government 's less than enthusiastic support for the activities of a propaganda radio ship Goddess of Democracy , sponsored by a French magazine and supported by a Paris-based group of Chinese exiles . |
| 9 | However , even now the epidemiological evidence for the disadvantages of a sedentary lifestyle and Western diet in causing current epidemics of obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes in the developing world provides a compelling basis for promoting primary prevention of these diseases . |
| 10 | The whole show for the election of a new Speaker called for the talents of a W P Frith . |
| 11 | Doubts concerning American policy in any case were often offset by a higher regard for the Americans as a people . |
| 12 | Although the International Law Commission did not consider directly the liability of a member State for the acts of an international organisation it seems likely that these two requirements would nevertheless be applicable . |
| 13 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 14 | In all other cases it would seem that the union 's responsibility for the acts of an individual are to be determined by the general law of master and servant or agency . |
| 15 | However the settlement leaves open the question whether member States can be found liable under international law for the debts of an organisation which has entered into transactions in its own name . |
| 16 | In the ex-French territories of North Africa the sudden removal of Frenchmen from all senior and technical posts caused severe problems for the railways for a period after independence . |
| 17 | Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole . |
| 18 | In 1980 , for example , Stephen Kellert at Yale University surveyed a random sample of more than 3,000 Americans for the preferences from a list of 33 different animal species . |
| 19 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 20 | The time trend accounts for the effects of a constant natural rate of growth of output while VP allows for the possibility that the efficiency of the economy , and hence the natural level of output , is reduced by a variable inflation rate . |
| 21 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 22 | Mr Thompson , sen , had been receiving sickness and invalidity benefit — about £93 a week — for the effects of a 1988 gunshot wound to his side after he was shot in the street as he walked home . |
| 23 | In place of the requirement to debit debt charges to individual operating statements , the law now requires that the local authority makes a ‘ minimum revenue provision ’ for the accounts as a whole . |
| 24 | An account of Sir Kenneth Cork 's contribution to the accountancy and charitable bodies reads flatly without some attempt to record , among other things , his involvement in the International Year for the Disabled and his encouragement to me when I instituted fro Accountancy the ( now ) annual award for the Best Report for the Accounts of a Charity ( writes Colin Cassie , former associate editor of Accountancy . ) |
| 25 | This limitation does not apply to any transaction for the Firm 's own account or for the accounts of an Associate provided that such transactions : |
| 26 | THE spokesman for the convicts in a squeaky-clean Danish jail says he will vote No : he fears he may be sent to do his sentence in less salubrious surroundings elsewhere in the European Community if the Maastricht treaty is ratified . |
| 27 | The early eukaryotic cell soon evolved an efficient method of sustaining its own growth , for the properties of a particular cell ( such as its shape and its abilities ) are determined by the chemical processes that go on within it . |
| 28 | And finally , readers may recall NME 's STUART BAILIE 's ‘ sex ’ posé on BARNEY from THE MILLTOWN BROTHERS bending over naked for the cameras at a Paris jaunt . |
| 29 | Therefore , if someone develops a new form of layout for the components in a computer or a new configuration for printed circuit boards , these are unlikely to be granted patents . |
| 30 | Relations were sometimes strained and occasionally explosive , and a picture emerged for the evaluators of a fair degree of conflict between the committee and its chairman . |