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

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1 The corporations had wide powers of acquisition and management of the requisite areas ‘ and generally to do anything necessary or expedient for the purposes of the new town or for the purposes incidental thereto ’ .
2 In the book itself he carried through this programme by asserting that theology could not be dictated to by another discipline either about the nature of its object or about the methods appropriate to its study .
3 ‘ — to ensure that individuals do not suffer through ignorance of their rights and responsibilities or of the services available ; or through an inability to express their needs effectively ; , — to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services , both locally and nationally .
4 The RF Defence and Foreign Ministries were to negotiate the status of troops on Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states ' territories not forming part of those states ' armed forces or of the CIS strategic forces .
5 5.7.2 Not to do in or near the Premises any act or thing by reason of which the Landlord may under any statute incur have imposed upon [ it ] or become liable to pay any penalty damages compensation costs charges or expenses
6 Impressions and patterns may be made in the wet sand , either by hand or with the tools available .
7 China , Rachel had told Maggie , was the place for dragons , where it was hot , and where in the villages great paper ones were paraded with veneration .
8 The practical problems for an artist working in the streets , markets or in the homes various enormously from day to day .
9 Order 26 , r 5 applies where any change has taken place after judgment by death , assignment or otherwise , in the parties entitled to enforce a judgment or order or in the parties liable under a judgment or order .
10 1 Use of pipes The right to the free and uninterrupted passage and running of water sewage gas electricity telephone and other services or supplies from and to other parts of the Centre or any Adjoining Property in and through the Pipes which now are or may during the Term be in under or over the Premises This is a standard reservation and the tenant may wish to ascertain at the outset just exactly which are the pipes at the commencement of the term that will be the subject of this right .
11 9.13.3 the Tenant shall indemnify the Landlord against any damage occasioned to the Premises and any actions claims proceedings cost expenses and demands made against the Landlord caused by or related to the presence of the property in or on the Premises This provision has become rather popular of late and it is difficult to argue against its inclusion .
12 Does he recollect that during the talks last summer that he strove so hard to make successful the IRA , at least for a time , was marginalised ?
13 For many emigrants , conditions at sea were no better than for the animals these ships carried .
14 The number of reported cases was thirty-eight per cent higher than during the years 1916 — 17 and 1922 — 3 ( Table 3.7 ) .
15 There were no differences between Council homes and private ones on any of these assessments , nor in the amenities available .
16 If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer .
17 I decided that in the circumstances this was not a job that I would entrust anyone else to do , and I motored to Hampstead myself .
18 The second difference is that in the colleges advanced instruction is usually timetabled , if not a formal part of the course , whereas in universities and polytechnics it is generally neither of these .
19 In the United Kingdom it would mean that in the LFAs 10 per cent .
20 It is not surprising , therefore , that in the interviews several practice managers reported increased tension and stress among staff as a result of the changes .
21 It is estimated that in the years 1896–1913 German landholdings declined by over 98,000 hectares , 20,000 of which were in and around Danzig .
22 It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan .
23 It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic .
24 In fact he goes to great lengths to argue that the most important consequences of educational progress actually require ‘ sensitive judgment ’ using ‘ interpretative reasoning ’ , and that in the arts this means that valid and reliable assessment can only be achieved through what Best calls ‘ inter-subjective agreement ’ .
25 The numbers of teeth digested in the European eagle owl and tawny owl assemblages are much higher than in the categories 1–2 species ( Table 3.12 ) .
26 No tax is payable on the interest on National Savings Certificates , nor on the bonuses payable on Save As Your Earn contracts and index-linked Retirement Certificates .
27 But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less .
28 Some astronomers think that on the comets next visit in 135 years , it will approach the earth so close , it may even collide , wiping out most life forms .
29 In the second century a variant of this theme appeared in the assumption made by writers in the orthodox tradition that on the essentials all Christians rightly believing are agreed : the cacophony of dissension is a characteristic either of heretics or of pagan philosophers .
30 Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it .
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