Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 2 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 3 | These are concealed either within the fitting 's baseplate or within the recessed connection box . |
| 4 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 5 | Tickets can be bought on board or from the civic centre . |
| 6 | Six patients were found from their medical records to have had serious infections either during the current admission or within the previous two years while drinking heavily . |
| 7 | The great majority of their courses , whether in business and management studies , the sciences and technologies or in the social sciences , prepare students for specific career outlets ; thus modern language courses for the most part give attention to the practical application of the language with a view to the student 's ultimate employment , for example as an interpreter , while courses in social science often include options in such areas as community work , social planning , industrial relations , and public administration . |
| 8 | Three patients ( two randomised to cisapride ) had originally presented with large or multiple chronic duodenal ulcers associated with small solitary areas of slough on either the incisura or in the prepyloric region . |
| 9 | In addition , a serious breach , or a breach of a term classified by the contract or by the general law as a condition , will allow the innocent party to terminate the contract . |
| 10 | If you 've had your sofa or curtains for a while and have thrown away any spare material , take a snip from the inside of a seat cushion or from the inside hem of a pair of curtains to stick in your book . |
| 11 | What do you think would be the profile of an effective RE teacher , whether in the primary or in the secondary school ? |
| 12 | The P/E ratio may be selected from newspapers and published financial statements for similar individual entities or from the relevant industry sector statistics . |
| 13 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 14 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 15 | Details were wanted on the number of Englishmen employed " in the Mynes or at the said worke , either for getting Oare or about roasting & melting furnace or hamers , & whether there be any skilful to manage those works if the now farmers should dye . " |
| 16 | In many cases there is a hefty bank and ditch marking the village boundary , but in others this may be marked only by a slight change in level or by the continuous line of the rear of the platforms . |
| 17 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 18 | It is true , I think , that there is a certain sort of eclecticism , practised for example by some neo-Freudian writers such as Erich Fromm or by the American ‘ ego psychologists ’ , which may undermine anything useful that Freudian theory really has to offer . |
| 19 | Either in March or in the second budget which is due in December this year tax increases of some kind therefore seem inevitable . |
| 20 | Either in March or in the second budget , which is due in December , tax increases of some kind therefore seem inevitable . |
| 21 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 22 | The EEC commission , in backing the expenditure of some £50 million on Super- SARA , said that ‘ no other facility available at present or in the foreseeable future provides the range and advantages for in-pile loss of coolant accident simulation . ’ |
| 23 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 24 | This did not imply , however , that they had necessarily been approved either by the European Parliament or by the various national parliaments and the Commission complained that Italy had implemented fewer than half of them . |
| 25 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
| 26 | Attach the remaining side of touch-and-close fastener to the front edge of the batten with steel tacks or along the top back edge of batten if fitting outside a reveal . |
| 27 | Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish . |
| 28 | The sort of shade I mean is the dappled shade cast by mature apple trees and maples or by the high branches of an oak . |
| 29 | ( Someone suffering property damage not exceeding £275 may , of course , be able to claim for it in negligence or under the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 30 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |