Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population .
2 The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below .
3 ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child .
4 That extra-strong attachment for Mum remained until the end of our mother 's life , at the age of eighty-two .
5 Consequently , in classical and medieval times , there was no radical inconsistency between description based on the accurate observation of empirical reality and continued belief in a world of fable , inhabited by otherworld monsters .
6 The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document .
7 The case for foot rests on the presumed equivalence of contrast between foot and query , in 17 :
8 It 's been said although I would n't say it for myself that the lack of pressure for change stems from the Royal Family 's landholdings .
9 We , therefore , provide an outline of the Queen 's Bench Division procedure , indicating the changes that have taken place and specific recommendations for change made by the Review .
10 Ironically , the best hope for change lies in the failure of so many new drugs to make the grade .
11 The need for change hinges on the state of the city coffers .
12 The impetus for change comes from the Management Charter Initiative ( MCI ) , an employer-led pressure group which hopes eventually to transform all management qualifications into quantifiable ‘ competences ’ .
13 2.3 The proposals for change embodied in the report were accepted and a new arrangement of 35 modules was agreed which may be found in Section 00 of Interdisciplinary Studies in the National Certificate Catalogue under the heading Physical Education and Recreation ( see Annex 2 ) .
14 His words illustrate the growing disarray of the economy , caught between workers venting long-suppressed grievances and vague blueprints for change issued from the top .
15 Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before .
16 Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable .
17 If the kingdom of Heaven is interpreted as the Christian community in Matthew 's Gospel , then the plea for patience applies to the community itself .
18 Important work is also progressing in the recognition of engineering drawings for both the lines of the drawings and for text found on the diagrams ( Waite , 1989 ; Dori , 1991 ; Lysak and Kasturi , 1991 ) , and of musical notation ( Fahmy and Blostein , 1991 ) .
19 However , Aglen 's appointment as inspector-general coincided with the anti-Manchu revolution of 1911–12 which resulted in the breakdown of the administrative arrangements of the Chinese , and faced by these unprecedented difficulties , Aglen made arrangements for the safety and integrity of customs revenue by placing it in foreign banks in his own name .
20 ‘ We 're in for a storm , ’ Ashley remarked , grimacing as thunder rumbled in the distance .
21 Reducing the volume of waste not only makes it more manageable and reduces the further risk of contravening the hygiene regulations , but since most local authorities or waste contractors charge for removal based on the volume , you will also make considerable savings on removal charges .
22 As his appointment preceded the 1932 Adult Education Regulations , Lee was not an Article 11 tutor but represented the new regional policy for provision developing at the Cambridge Board , which included the 1930 appointment of Harold Shearman as its tutor in Bedfordshire , and W. P. Baker in Cambridgeshire the following year .
23 The strategy must be to seek to ensure that the defendants bear the costs , at the end of every successful case , of every application for inspection made in the face of an unreasonable refusal of access .
24 Resistance to the EEC-funded search for uranium began with the anti-nuclear movement but quickly developed , in the major area being prospected , Co .
25 Information can be made available more easily through computer links without the need for a significant layer of intervening administrative bureaucrats or middle managers .
26 Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on .
27 As to the second stage , like the Court of Appeal I can see no ground for impugning the grounds for decision stated in the letter to Mr. Choudhury .
28 Among other things that it is the teacher who has all the good ideas , thereby making it difficult to hand over responsibility for decision making to the children .
29 However , if there is then an advancement to the unmarried minor out of capital , that capital is treated as income paid to the child to the extent of the accumulated income .
30 Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement .
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