Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As principal lady inspector Anderson sought to create a rational framework for inspection while preserving the independence and enlarging the sphere of activity of the women 's branch . |
| 2 | Repeat them movement , while counting to 4 slowly , as often as you can — for instance while washing the dishes or waiting for a bus . |
| 3 | Many d-i-y jobs around the home require you to stand on something so you can reach higher , for instance when changing a light bulb or painting a low ceiling . |
| 4 | In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency . |
| 5 | ‘ It gives us the opportunity to work on persuading the huge catchment area around us that it is perfectly possible to get the Hamilton habit after work when experiencing a top evening out . ’ |
| 6 | To control for wealth when assessing the effect of age on preparedness to break the law , we look separately at the rich and poor . |
| 7 | The court can give directions relating to medical or psychiatric examination or any other kind of assessment when making an interim order or at any time while an order is in force ( s38(6) ) . |
| 8 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 9 | The first navigation of the Straits of Magellan was a far more difficult problem of seamanship than crossing the Atlantic … |
| 10 | Unfortunately , we accidentally eliminated this system of protection when developing the King Edwards and other breeds of potato used today . |
| 11 | There are lots of superstitions which are linked to the moon , such as turning over the coins in one 's pockets as a form of luck when seeing a new moon through glass , while the phases of the moon used to dictate the timing of weddings and other important aspects of life . |
| 12 | The most common cause of damage when getting the glider out of the trailer and putting it back at the end of the day 's flying is impatience , and the only answer is never to rig without an adequate number of people . |
| 13 | ‘ Photo ’ regulating — it allows the skin to benefit from the positive effects of daytime whilst preventing the formation of free radicals . |
| 14 | Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit . |
| 15 | Lichtheim describes Marx 's concept of ideology as illuminating the fact that human beings do not have ‘ true consciousness ’ ( Lichtheim 1967 : 22 ) . |
| 16 | There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism . |
| 17 | The Warsaw Convention , with all its amendments , protocols and variations , seeks to limit the liability of international air carriers to a specific sum of money while acknowledging the air carrier ( airline ) as the only party liable ; that is to say aircraft manufacturers , component manufacturers , pilots , engineers , air traffic controllers and governments who operate airports and navigation services are excluded from all liability unless negligence can be proved . |
| 18 | The limited partner(s) contribute a fixed amount of money when joining the partnership , and this money must remain in the partnership . |
| 19 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 20 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 21 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 22 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 23 | The irony of murder as doing a lot — doing anything — bears the stamp of Svidrigailov . |
| 24 | Proof of this may be demonstrated by the relative lack of pleasure when smoking a cigarette with one 's eyes shut . |
| 25 | And it is necessary to assess the nature and significance of the polarization between ‘ multiculturalism ’ and ‘ antiracism ’ in this field , especially given the left 's construction of antiracism as representing the more genuinely radical intervention in this field . |
| 26 | The egg shape is a clue to building in the sense of rhythm when drawing the small birds ; you can practise drawing ovals and thus build up bird shapes . |
| 27 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 28 | To us they seem at least as intriguing and worthy of study as do the signs and wonders which become the obsessive concern of mystics , religious and many others outside the laboratory . |
| 29 | Conversely , Henry VII 's shell is more tubular , probably allowing for a more natural appearance of majesty when positioning the funerary sceptres in the hands . |
| 30 | Units need to be able to offer the highest standards of hygiene while maintaining a homely atmosphere . |