Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They point also ( 1987 , pp. 18–19 ) to an entrenched ‘ disbelief system ’ which includes scepticism about attempted reforms and a belief-far from groundless — that such reforms often fail . |
| 2 | Within the USA , the states are increasingly flexing their muscles in the form of rushing through anti-takeover laws when a favoured local firm is threatened . |
| 3 | No , I 've got her a box of things , I did a little box up with bits in all some for fifty p and a pound , doing that up and hair bands for her , giving her , given a little box with all little bits and pieces in it |
| 4 | There are separate oil pressure gauges for each engine and a battery of rectangular instruments giving the usual Ts and Ps . |
| 5 | Levels of lighting should be assessed for each child and a good contrast of print on paper provided . |
| 6 | Equally , there may be a separate policy for each individual or a master policy , covering everyone in the scheme . |
| 7 | Another column — budget — records the forecasts for the year and for each period and a third — variance — the difference between budget and actual for each period . |
| 8 | Another column — budget — records the forecasts for the year and for each period and a third — variance — the difference between budget and actual for each period . |
| 9 | The recent taunts were against the ‘ quack doctors ’ , ‘ faint hearts ’ and ‘ moaning minnies ’ who allegedly wished to give up on the fight for low inflation and a stable currency . |
| 10 | It was a recipe for low morale and a drop in standards . |
| 11 | The Japanese came to Britain partly for low wage-costs and a welcoming government , but mostly because it is in Europe . |
| 12 | Other sponsorships could be for travel or study overseas or for specific research or a long-term project . |
| 13 | Tolkien did best when he kept mythic invention on the borderline between literal story and a wider suggestiveness ( Fangorn , Bombadil , Lúthien , Roads and Rings ) ; too conscious an approach to ‘ mythopoeia ’ would have ended only in allegory . |
| 14 | In 1926 , eleven of her students attended Newnham College 's summer school for working women and a further three joined the summer school at Cheshunt College , where George Pateman and his wife were in charge of the arrangements . |
| 15 | Lawson ( 1978 ) used a face recognition task which yielded a LVF advantage for right handers and a RVF superiority for left handers . |
| 16 | When additional work is required for which payment has not been provided in the contract documents , the engineer may have power either to agree new rates for measured work or a fixed price for a defined piece of work . |
| 17 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
| 18 | The 18-year-old from North Shields beat off eight opponents and a tendon injury to take the lead after the opening compulsory figures . |
| 19 | The government responded to its difficulties on the economic front with Mengistu 's announcement of limited liberalization measures in March , including steps towards the introduction of a mixed economy , with scope for private enterprise and a free market in agricultural trade , although the state would continue to own the land . |
| 20 | The State must act in relieving distress , for private charity and a change of heart among the rich are not enough . |
| 21 | The similar Golden-banded Goby , B. nunus needs hiding places such as rocky caves or a plant pot . |
| 22 | A press system can be defined as paralleling a party system when such links exist between each newspaper and a party … |
| 23 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 24 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 25 | They also had relatively easy access to markets for stolen cattle and a reasonable amount of forest land in which to hide and transport animals . |
| 26 | He admitted that he had learnt of the Iran-contra operation in mid-1986 and had passed the information to his superiors , including Clair C. George , the agency 's deputy director for covert operations and a subordinate to Gates . |
| 27 | He shall be assessed on the whole amount or value of that benefit except in so far as is shown that the benefit derives directly or indirectly from income on which he has already been charged to tax for that year or a previous year of assessment . |
| 28 | It is for that reason that a degree of expertise is required in hand strikes and blocking techniques before a student is taught kicks . |
| 29 | BREWERS of Castlemaine lager were accused yesterday of not giving a XXXX for deaf people because a TV commercial for the Aussie booze uses ‘ gobbledegook ’ sign language . |
| 30 | By the same token , any discourse which seems to offer a synthesis between professional values and a sense of national character and moral worthiness , while also overlooking inhumane specialist tendencies and threats of moral ambiguity , is treated favourably in the Review . |