Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it failed comprehensively to push through various plans for mergers between the assemblers . |
| 2 | A third consequence of Gandhi 's insistence on the imperfect nature of particular forms of religions is his plea for the spirit of toleration between religions on the grounds that it increases spiritual insight and gives a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 3 | ‘ The Scotch lassies came down to do the herring for the barrel processing , the same as the Dutch , the pickle processing , and some splitting for kippers in the fish-houses . |
| 4 | The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition . |
| 5 | On the whole , there is very little variation between Authorities in the amounts per head allocated on the basis of total population figures , although Westminster provides a striking exception ; the very large amount for Westminster derives from the large daytime population , since all provision for library expenditure for commuters is transferred to their place of work ! |
| 6 | Education about dangers on the roads is top of the agenda at the new TEARS Traffic Education and Road Safety centre in Malvern . |
| 7 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 8 | There is , however , no need to look for metaphors in the struggles of labouring women , including Mary Leapor , for whom education was a barely attainable luxury . |
| 9 | At the moment it says , it describes how suggestions for improvements to the systems and procedures are generated . |
| 10 | The World Bank granted Algeria a total of dollars 341,000,000 in loans during its fiscal year ending June 30 , 1989 , including a dollars 63,000,000 loan for improvements to the ports of Algiers , Oran and Annaba was approved on June 29 ( see also pp. 36749 ; 36905 ) . |
| 11 | This Convention attempts to harmonise data protection legislation among the signatory states to remove the need for restrictions on the free flow of data between states on the grounds that personal data is not protected . |
| 12 | We walked for hours about the streets of Notting Hill and talked and talked . |
| 13 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 14 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 15 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 16 | In the January 1972 hearings of the Select Committee on Expenditure of the House of Commons , repeated requests made by Members of Parliament for a list of the programmes subject to analysis and for copies of the reports so far prepared were denied . |
| 17 | This is sufficiently clear from the rules relating to infant shareholders , who are liable for calls on the shares unless they repudiate the allotment during infancy or on attaining majority , and who can not recover any money which they have paid unless the shares have been completely valueless . |
| 18 | As captains , they served sometimes as leaders of small expeditions , sometimes under the personal leadership of the king ; as lieutenants , they exercised authority in castles and garrisons ; while others still served as men-at-arms in the armies of both sides . |
| 19 | The politicians in Washington are there to fight for their state and the conflicts in Washington are not conflicts between , so much between the states and the federal government , as conflicts between the states for different advantages . |
| 20 | The second group are the likely end-users of the AI ; they range from officers in middle management through SNCOs to the Airmen on the line . |
| 21 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 22 | Conversely , developing your skill with the nuances of essay-writing style can enhance the effect of the points you make , and enable you to steer comfortably through complexities of the arguments you present . |
| 23 | The discussion of military issues was postponed until February , but delegates did agree the military oaths for servicemen in the CIS strategic forces , and in the armed forces which seven states were to have in common ( i.e. not Ukraine , Byelarus , Azerbaijan , Moldova ) . |
| 24 | The 30-year-old Palacio used to fight for coins in the streets of Medellin and was good enough to fight for the WBA super-bantamweight crown two years ago , when he claimed he was robbed . |
| 25 | Similarly , there was a difference between groups in the rates of reported non-smoking ( χ 2 a d j =9.2 , df=3 ; p=0.03 ) ; this difference was no longer significant after potential confounders were adjusted for ( F 3 , 3 5 =2.5 ) . |
| 26 | His initial steps were taken to foil what he interpreted as attempts by the superpowers or their proxies to bolster the bipolar order . |
| 27 | For clients of the services for mentally ill people , protection of conditions of employment to work toward that outcome is important . |
| 28 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 29 | The Practical Curriculum , for example , a useful , practical discussion document for schools from the Schools Council , had to be held up so that it should not upstage an HMI view of the curriculum . |
| 30 | The teaching role of the bishops , as successors to the apostles , is described as a service to the whole Church . |