Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors . |
| 2 | If the costs and benefits do not differ for alternative opportunities under consideration these costs and benefits will be irrelevant to decisions . |
| 3 | Here on the horizons of thought such ideas as Kant 's noumena come to life . |
| 4 | In addition to Acts of Parliament both Houses have to deal with a great deal of what is known as ‘ subordinate ’ or ‘ delegated ’ legislation . |
| 5 | The Working Party included in its proposals for programmes of study those aspects of media education and IT which contribute most directly to the central aim of English : to widen the range of children 's understanding and use of language , and to develop their skills in it . |
| 6 | There is evidence that at times of stress many patients do not absorb verbal information and that a better quality of informed consent can be obtained by combining oral and written information as we did . |
| 7 | Moreover , the effects of industrial action on members ' attendance exacerbated the situation , and it is arguable that in times of adversity such bodies need stronger leadership and clearer terms of reference than this panel ever enjoyed . |
| 8 | The first , and rather obvious , point of criticism is that by concentrating on capital-labour relations and movements of capital these authors have largely neglected other kinds of relations ( such as those of gender and race ) which have dynamics which are relatively separate from those of class but which nevertheless combine with those of class in highly complex ways . |
| 9 | Turakina ran the needle through the folds of material several times , looped the thread upon itself , and then snapped it off short . |
| 10 | In all , we played two to three rounds of golf most days and then off to the practice paddock . |
| 11 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 12 | Since the beginnings of industrialisation these values have been provided by Christianity . |
| 13 | Rather , in most ordinary kinds of talk these principles are oriented to , such that when talk does not proceed according to their specifications , hearers assume that , contrary to appearances , the principles are nevertheless being adhered to at some deeper level . |
| 14 | Like many other towns , Swindon has no consultant overseeing the years of care such patients need . |
| 15 | For the purposes of law some actions must be regarded as voluntary , since only these can be justifiably punished . |
| 16 | For purposes of comparison these figures are also given as correlated averages rather than the average correlations which were reported previously . |
| 17 | For days before Hallowe'en several men devoted their spare time to preparing the track ; the grass was trimmed , weeds and stones removed , hollows and gullies washed out by the rain were filled and the whole course was meticulously surveyed for snags and bumps . |
| 18 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 19 | The under sheriff must hold on to the balance for 14 days in case any steps should be taken to make the defendant bankrupt , in which case he would have to pay the money he has recovered to the receiver . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , despite advances in education such hopes have not been realized . |
| 21 | In the communist world in the long years before collapse all concessions to the market were resisted as concessions to capitalism ; they were inconsistent with the accepted principles of socialism . |
| 22 | In one of the worst years on record many nests have been robbed or destroyed and adult birds shot or poisoned . |
| 23 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 24 | If the Carrier agrees to accept Dangerous Goods for carriage such goods must be accompanied by a full declaration of their nature and contents and be properly and safely packed and labelled in accordance with any statutory regulations for the time being in force for carriage by road . |
| 25 | Regarded as mere changes of weight these figures are of secondary importance . |
| 26 | On a larger scale , in very wet ground , lenses of ice several metres thick may accumulate over a number of years , causing hummocky ground ; on thawing they create pits from which originate many tundra ponds . |
| 27 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 28 | The absence of the laminated intervals in sediments younger than 4.4Myr further suggests that nutrients , in particular silica , were not supplied in sufficient quantities to fuel these bursts of export production in the eastern equatorial Pacific after this date . |
| 29 | I understand they run sightseeing trips for Allied servicemen in uniform some days . ’ |
| 30 | Starting from the classical theories of elasticity such questions as the prediction of elastic moduli from the inter-atomic forces and the part played by crystal structure and crystal defects have been the subject of research for a great many years . |