Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 During the work the original opening between Cell-y-bedd and the church was discovered , thus explaining the entry in the Parish records in 1721 ‘ for shutting up Melangell 's door — 9 pence ’ !
2 The asking of that question in 1962 brought problems about teaching and the curriculum into a sharper national focus , and into a context of Government and politics from which they have never since been dislodged .
3 The tough world of motor racing finds Cagney competing against his brother for glory and the girl .
4 The use of a spectacle-case for protection and the habit of keeping the lenses clean helps to ensure that these aids to sight are kept in a usable , effective condition .
5 Ore was crushed and stamped on the spot , being sent as a concentrate to Cheadle in Staffordshire for reduction and the manufacture of wire , and Dickson says , sheets for coppering the bottoms of ships .
6 Because of the heat all work stopped about lunch-time and the city came to a halt .
7 Bills for gambling debts are stuffed beneath an overflowing chamber-pot and the Prince is surrounded by medications for indigestion and the pox .
8 Right , now , we 've talked about very briefly , touched on the division between university and the city , and obviously the erm differences between the King and Parliament exacerbated what happened in the city .
9 Other lecturers emphasise the New Testament as literature and the response of the reader .
10 The work involved the evaluation of land for the rival purposes of agriculture , housing , air-fields , hydro-electric schemes , etc. , and often resulted in acrimonious tussles between Agriculture and the Home and Health Departments .
11 When formulating its eventual recommendations , the National Consultative Group will have to take into account two essential differences between agriculture and the rest of British industry : it is for the most part composed of relatively small-scale and highly efficient enterprises employing limited numbers of men and women working in relative isolation from one another ; and , as we have seen , the boundaries between the craftsman and technician in agriculture are shifting and difficult , if not impossible , to define .
12 Showing visitors the links between agriculture and the landscape has been an important part of the thinking behind each weekend 's programme .
13 There is a wide consensus among medical educators and students about the need for change and the direction it should take , and there are plenty of examples from Britain and elsewhere that change is possible and can be effective .
14 It is important to emphasise that the impact of the Teacher Placement Service is far greater than the sum of teachers taking placement , as evaluative returns and case study evidence consistently point to the experience as a stimulus for change and the development of partnership activities .
15 There is the push for change and the pull of security , the longing for intimacy and the fear of being engulfed , the wish to be the same as others and the drive to be different .
16 FEB 1992 In the 36 hours following the TOP launch in February 1992 senior managers talked to all Station staff , including shift workers , to explain the need for change and the part everyone would play in the process .
17 Anthony Bradley , emeritus professor of constitutional law at Edinburgh University , said there was a case for a double-stage inquiry which first examined the principle or case for change and the second to study how changes could be made with the minimum dislocation or waste of expenditure .
18 It therefore approaches and studies the mass media from a number of perspectives , such as cultural premises , the potential for change and the evolution of normative values leading to a ‘ new order ’ .
19 They will not bring about change unless the rewards for change or the resolution of a crisis situation can be delivered .
20 I flailed for support as the camera flew up to the padded ceiling .
21 She 's trembling violently and she starts to retch , leaning against me for support as the heaving racks her .
22 Visitors will be charged £1.50 for admission and the Taste Sensation roadshow set off for its Blackpool location just days after being unveiled at Park Royal .
23 The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] .
24 The relationship between income and the summary index can then be explored .
25 With costs unofficially estimated at up to £200,000 , the award seemed likely to force the closure of the magazine , which has built a reputation for trendiness and a circulation of 73,000 , selling mainly to people in their 20s .
26 For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft .
27 Most of them had pierced openings for part or the whole of the light , either left open or filled with glass ( 180 and 181 ) .
28 Test holes have been bored to see if the land is suitable for building but no reply has been received .
29 The refectory had been built when there was money around for building and the architect had let himself go with walls of glass and a high curving ceiling panelled in pastel colours .
30 Berry and Crothers ( 1974 ) found a slight correlation between exposure and the frequency of coloured individuals in the samples ( fig.12 ) , but none between colour or banding frequencies and food .
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