Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a precedent for this : the Marquess of Linlithgow ( a Lowland family and therefore without its own tartan ) introduced a ‘ new ’ tartan for the warders at Hopetoun House , outside Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 3 | For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history . |
| 4 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 5 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 6 | It was Osman 's father Mohamed who had returned in his car for the clothes for Mrs Zamzam 's children just before Um Al-Farajh was finally abandoned by the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 . |
| 7 | For the proposals in Gordon 's memo were agreed . |
| 8 | The DES accompanied the report with Circular 11/77 , ‘ The Training of Teachers for Further Education ’ , in which it declared the Secretary of State 's support for the proposals in principle , together with the hope that an early start would be made on their implementation , ‘ so far as this is possible within existing resources ’ . |
| 9 | This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power . |
| 10 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 11 | For the guts of Papert 's approach is to make geometry and other once-dusty disciplines concrete . |
| 12 | Later , as Paul prays for the disciples at Ephesus and lays hands on them , they have a similar experience to the household of Cornelius , namely they speak in tongues and prophesy . |
| 13 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 14 | This imbalance has led to Eureka Audiovisual establishing the following priorities for its work ; the exchange and broadcasting of European works ; training , to encourage competition among European companies ; to assist countries with small production bases and minority languages ; to promote new technologies ; to create more networking opportunities for the industries of cinema and television . |
| 15 | It contributed to D'Arcy 's increasingly bad mood as he scoured the city in his search for the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 16 | It will be a strange afternoon for the directors from Roker Park . |
| 17 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 18 | The first is what Hallam[00] has termed the ‘ Revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans . |
| 19 | The first is what Hallam has termed the ‘ revolution in the earth sciences ’ ( the word ‘ revolution ’ in his title implying a Kuhnian view of the transformation ) : the acceptance of plate tectonic evidence for the movements of continents , and the opening and closing of oceans . |
| 20 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 21 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 22 | Scrounged a kipper off our tour manager Tel for breakfast , and then went about cleaning some chimneys for the nobs up West . |
| 23 | Particularly for the concepts of accountability outlined in Divisions I and II of table 2.1 , an important way to communicate accountability is through the provision of financial , and related , information — financial accountability . |
| 24 | If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August . |
| 25 | ‘ But unless they get the crowds who turn out for the visits of Linfield and Portadown , every week , cash will always be in short supply . ’ |
| 26 | This is one explanation for why there are still many tickets available for the matches in England 's group . |
| 27 | And the IRFU did nothing for its cause by not awarding caps for the matches against Canada and the United States and by refusing to pay the players the regulation daily allowance because the tour was one day short of the stipulated duration . |
| 28 | Some Ealing posters collaged graphics with photography , as Minton did in the publicity leaflet for The Loves of Joanna Godden ( 1947 ) . |
| 29 | Although providing support for the findings of Mattila et al , our results show a weaker association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 30 | Slipstreaming away , waiting for the bits of gristle from the sandwiches . |