Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genevieve Lloyd , in The Man of Reason : ‘ Male ’ and ‘ Female ’ in Western Philosophy ( 1984 ) , looks at the way in which Western philosophy has conceptualised reason , and shows that throughout its history ideals of reason have incorporated an exclusion of the feminine , which creates both practical and conceptual problems for women who may experience conflicts between reason and femininity . |
| 2 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 3 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 4 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 5 | She has found that she can interest modern teenagers , and develop attitudes of stillness and attentiveness and reflectiveness , through detailed study of certain masterpieces . |
| 6 | When no trace of hair remained visible , he applied strips of newspaper and a warmed towel to complete the process . |
| 7 | The game could be a bit quicker with more chances for catching opponents by surprise and I have no doubt that David Johnson ( Watsonians , Glasgow and Scotland ‘ A ’ coach ) will be studying the possibilities so that hopefully Watsonians will be at the fore in adapting their style . |
| 8 | I would also like to see skills of writing and arguing developed and tested . |
| 9 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 10 | The military authorities in the nominally independent homeland of Ciskei declared a state of emergency on Oct. 28 " to combat activities of arson and terrorism " by the ANC . |
| 11 | For example , since women are the main socializers of children , they have an enormous capacity to affect patterns of personality and behaviour . |
| 12 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 13 | The former includes being able to adjust ways of speaking — such as tone and vocabulary — according to audience , context and purpose ; the latter involves skills of concentration and assimilation . |
| 14 | Keynes was concerned with producing a theory which was sufficiently general to embrace states of unemployment as well as full employment . |
| 15 | Some 55,000 million ringgits were allocated to the federal government , largely to implement improvements in transport and communications , education , health , defence and internal security . |
| 16 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 17 | ‘ Justice ’ refers to the obligation of the Prison Service to treat prisoners with humanity and fairness , and to prepare them for their return to the community in a way which makes it less likely that they will re-offend . |
| 18 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 19 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 20 | In addition , for the purposes of completing returns of information or transfer forms , the details supplied must be those of the incapacitated person . |
| 21 | In addition , general practitioners sometimes act as advocates for the community , meeting with local officials to try to promote improvements in sanitation and basic infrastructure . |
| 22 | A joint quality team meets regularly and last year ICI produced improvements in product and delivery performance , resulting in the higher level Q1 Silver award . |
| 23 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
| 24 | A lighthearted look at one of the pre-Medau ways of using loads of energy and having lots of fun . |
| 25 | In such circumstances actual results influence judgments of responsibility and culpability even though the agent did not contemplate the result which occurred . |
| 26 | Some areas however had very much higher proportions , suggesting patterns of migration and resettlement of retired people . |
| 27 | This sort of structure could be adapted to the situation where the departing shareholders of Target are willing to accept deferred consideration ( the debentures ) , the managers become or remain shareholders in Target and a venture capital partnership wishes to invest directly in Target . |
| 28 | Now the mud and sand have formed strata of clay and sandstone . |
| 29 | The University of Ulster offers programmes of study and research at four campuses — Coleraine , Jordanstown , Belfast and Magee College , Londonderry . |
| 30 | Most leading merchant banks have established their own property investment departments and have been at the forefront of developing innovative methods of financing projects through equity and long-term debt . |