Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 2 | This is where a sales idea could come in , but for the right reasons it could be good , but also , for the bad reasons , it could be totally wrong . |
| 3 | For the pregnant girls it is often a real eye-opener to see the other girls go off , deliver their babies and come back , having survived it all . |
| 4 | DEC was trying to gain visibility last week for the 661 companies it says are porting programs over Alpha . |
| 5 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 6 | This is indicated in Layton 's references to the views of science on the one hand in terms of ‘ the disinterested pursuit of truth ’ , and on the other , particularly by those involved in the Great Exhibition , as ‘ the producer for the industrial market place ( so that science was to be studied for the economic benefits it would yield ) ’ . |
| 7 | Despite Edward 's concern to obtain a wide measure of support for the war and consent for the financial exactions it necessitated , the measures the government took to raise money and supplies in 1338 and 1339 gave rise to grievances which resemble those which underlay the conflicts of Edward I 's last years . |
| 8 | It comes courtesy of AIS , the information service that pumps out Notams and an awful lot more from Heathrow and is well known within the aviation world for the personal briefings it can give for aviators seeking to make foreign journeys . |
| 9 | But for the real enthusaists it 's the Russians and their East European neighbours which have aroused the most interest . |
| 10 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |
| 11 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 12 | Each member country must determine the detailed content of training for the various specialties it chooses to recognise under the directives . |
| 13 | I recommend it not only for its excellent chapter on 17th century siege warfare , but also for the many clues it throws up en passant about where you might begin searching if you know of , or read about , a siege in your locality that is not in the book 's contents list . |
| 14 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 15 | For the New Critics it was an objective structural feature of the text , but they offered no precise structural criteria for identifying it . |
| 16 | For the new pilots it was a disturbing experience . |
| 17 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 18 | For the fifteen minutes it 'll take , the computers will be completely in charge . |
| 19 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 20 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 21 | Aromatherapy can help many disorders , but for the best results it should form part of a holistic health regime . |
| 22 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 23 | Pisistratus had made Eleusis a symbol of the unity of Attica ; for the fifth-century Athenians it was that , and a symbol of Athens ' rule over a united Aegean as well . |
| 24 | Now the European Institute of Technology — an industrial organisation founded by IBM Europe , AT&T , Enichem , Montedison and Philips — has asked it to handle the intellectual property rights for the scientific projects it supports in European institutions . |
| 25 | For the older cattle it was the animation of a remembered pleasure . |
| 26 | Why could n't she slide out of herself and be someone else , if only for the ten seconds it would take to push open the door of the hotel and step across the threshold ? |
| 27 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
| 28 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 29 | Well today , poll tax has now gone up one pound , but for the old fogies it 's gone down one pound |
| 30 | It 's claimed that the laser-engraved cards are fraud-proof at a cost of £1.20 each to produce , compared with 25p for the old cards It 's an investment that the industry hopes will beat the fraudsters hands down . |