Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 2 | To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay . |
| 3 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 4 | All our pension fund assets are managed by independent , professional fund managers , each of whom has specific instructions that no asset may be invested in or loaned to Tomkins , in any way , ’ Mr Duncan explains . |
| 5 | Just a quick word about this lot , each of whom has special characteristics . |
| 6 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 7 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 8 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 9 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 10 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 11 | The aims of sexual activity may focus on any of the erotogenic zones , that is , those parts of the skin , or those organs of the body , the stimulation of which produces sensual pleasure . |
| 12 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 13 | This may seem simple but , as I shall try to show , it involves a series of steps , each of which poses difficult problems . |
| 14 | .. ’ . The second is completed by specifying a position or role the occupier of which possesses certain rights and duties , and which the consent purports to allow Y to occupy . |
| 15 | There is one elementary truth , the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans ; and the moment one definitely commits oneself , then Providence moves too . |
| 16 | The same is true of voluntary work , much of which involves concrete skills such as typing , driving , accountancy or teaching others technical skills . |
| 17 | Such views are very different from those that would be associated with behaviourism or epiphenomenalism , neither of which allows mental states any causal role in the production of behaviour . |
| 18 | The nuclear industry produces waste streams which contain a variety of radioactive metal ions , the extraction of which minimises radioactive discharges . |
| 19 | The sample , placed in a dialyser bag , is suspended in distilled or deionized water , circulation of which encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days . |
| 20 | All of which lends circumstantial weight to the idea that oncogenes may be activated by stripping them of their methyl groups — and also explains the common observation that tumour cells may sometimes express inappropriately characteristics of other tissue cells . |
| 21 | It has already been noted that there is a variety of cleaning agents each of which affects specific types of soil . |
| 22 | In room J , there is a skilfully drawn hexagonal mosaic , divided into seven internal hexagons each of which holds interlaced guilloche triangles ; in room W , is another hexagonal mosaic-this time divided into six triangles , each of which carries a square . |
| 23 | In addition , about 36 fragments of metallic nickel-iron meteorites have been collected , one of which contains minute diamonds , and is the second of its kind known in the world . |
| 24 | Any particle could in principle be used ; most results have been obtained with neutrons or electrons , each of which has various advantages and disadvantages for particular samples . |
| 25 | Barbara Rashbass , director of the foundation , says that charitable bodies are entitled to decide how to allocate their funds and that unsuccessful applicants are free to apply for support from other medical research charities , none of which has similar restrictions . |
| 26 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 27 | To the people of England , it is more than a question of who administers local government : the lines on the map , the cricket teams , the Lords Lieutenants and signposts are important . |
| 28 | There 's the absence of serious consideration , beyond a handful of wary churchmen , of who bears moral responsibility for the creation that is Saddam Hussein . |
| 29 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 30 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |