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

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31 Some drama excerpts would give rise to a lot of discussion about relationships between the characters .
32 In the Pacific , just as in ancient Greece and Rome , dolphins have been traditionally regarded as messengers of the gods .
33 I am Julias Denton for homes for the children 's charity .
34 These involved the experimental subject in observing three-dimensional figures on a VDU , and then answering questions about aspects of the figures that were knowable — but hardly at an intuitive level .
35 These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself .
36 Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy .
37 In the initial phase of my fieldwork , my contacts were made through schools in the areas of Leytonstone ( in the borough of Waltham Forest ) and Catford ( which at that time was in the area of the Inner London Education Authority , now abolished ) .
38 It is for this reason that I regard the industrial action which swept through schools in the mid-1980s with regret .
39 Am gloomy about presents for the children .
40 ‘ It 's so chaotic at times and I really do n't like to have to dodge between cars with the children . ’
41 Grants for the purchase of drawings were made by the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and for books by the Friends of the National Libraries .
42 ( Government plans for an electoral law which would ban foreign financial support for parties in the elections were also criticized in both East and West Germany .
43 In her article on British arts funding ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , March 1992 , pp.1 2 ) Giulia Ajmone Marsan drew attention to a threat from a Tory Minister for Arts to the Arts Council 's freedom from political control .
44 The first is Factor Analysis which examines the correlations between variables across the respondents or products surveyed .
45 The upper unit has an average porosity of 12% , formed largely of voids between fragments of the breccias , together with some contribution from fractures .
46 However , they can still be useful for organizations in the throes of change , marker buoys in rough seas , navigational aids rather than the one and only route to take .
47 Over the billennia there has been a general loss of small bodies from the space between the planets , partly to interstellar space and partly through impacts with the planets .
48 He goes for walks with the boys and they talk about fishing and tractors . ’
49 Emily and Anne had dogs , and they used to take them for walks on the moors .
50 She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator .
51 This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine .
52 News after the market closed yesterday that China had approved a franchise for local conglomerate Wharf Holdings to set up a cable television network came as a shot in the arm for a market worried for months by the contracts issue .
53 Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux .
54 The complexities are formidable , and may well create scope for disputes about the procedures themselves .
55 Every year after the three-hours service on Good Friday , in which we choir boys were divided into three groups to lead the singing of the hymns , each group for an hour , a number of villagers went off to look for primroses in the hedgerows and woods .
56 The School offers supervision for candidates for the degrees of MLitt or PhD and other registered postgraduate students .
57 Sarah wed Ian Hodson , 27 , just 15 minutes late and insisted on posing for pictures with the officers .
58 The popularity of the Clio 's external design is almost double the average for cars in the supermini segment .
59 The agreement involved a delicate balance between concessions to the demands for greater autonomy by much of the French-speaking majority of Quebec and by representatives of the native Indian and Inuit population , and wider constitutional reforms designed to appeal to the western provinces , particularly the creation of an elected Senate where all 10 of the country 's provinces would be equally represented [ see p. 39000 ] .
60 Making risk assessments while they were driving may have caused drivers to think about risks in the situations to a greater extent than they would have in the course of normal driving .
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