Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , it was the local authority 's plan that there should be a period of assessment of the relationship between L. and her mother , the mother 's skills as a parent and her willingness to respond to counselling , and that a programme of rehabilitation should be entered into . |
| 32 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 33 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 34 | The neo-Georgian building pays testament to the company 's undoubted skills as a design and build outfit . |
| 35 | You acquire a wide range of skills as an actuary and continue to learn throughout your professional life . |
| 36 | Langdon 's maps , drawn of estates in about fifteen counties , are distinctive and their embellishments with Elizabethan strapwork ornamentation show his skills as an artist and draughtsman . |
| 37 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 38 | But I suspect the rages are in some degree tactical , part of the well-established struggle between a director and his producers . |
| 39 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 40 | Many schemes allow you to swap existing investments for a PEP but you should be wary of the costs and charges . |
| 41 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 42 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 43 | Physical demonstrations and protests , designed to secure much more widespread media coverage for a cause than is ever available for a cogent argument , are an increasingly frequent means of political communication and the House of Commons has not been exempt . |
| 44 | Well I I erm Roy Donson House Builders ' Federation , I I think it will because if you take Hambleton as an example and and and and we 've seen in more detail stage one er more detailed justification for the boundaries of some particular settlements in the Hambleton District Plan er based on a based on a landscape analysis . |
| 45 | Earnings per share fell from 11.9p to 4.2p.The company took a £200,000 exceptional charge for bad debts on a contract for a firm that went into receivership in November . |
| 46 | But McDonnell Douglas , which beat more than 100 firms to win the contract for a payroll and personnel system , says it will oppose the ‘ ill advised ’ legal action . |
| 47 | Ltd. v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha [ 1962 ] , in which it was held that a term implied in a hire contract for a ship that it must be seaworthy was such an innominate term . |
| 48 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 49 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 50 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
| 51 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 52 | What better case for an exception than this ? |
| 53 | Both articles sustain the case for an anti-essentialist and pragmatic politics , and therefore question the appeal to the category of experience in the two movements . |
| 54 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 55 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 56 | Here , of course , you will also need to make provision for a bed and clothes storage . |
| 57 | He loves Strach as a player and always mentions the fact that Strach is still the best right sided midfielder in the league . |
| 58 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 59 | She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria , suffered malnutrition as a child and had brought up her own children in poverty . |
| 60 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |