Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss Adjusters generally outline the steps being taken , the reasons for this and the likely period involved . |
| 2 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 3 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 5 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 6 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 7 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 8 | Below the arches are fat , circular columns instead of the usual piers , and there are openings between these and the apses . |
| 9 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 10 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 11 | Swinging his arm from left to right , he had scythed through one row of skinny necks after another until every bird was decapitated and motionless . |
| 12 | The panel is still considering the divisional schools library service erm the , they 're very clear is at to whether these costs to the library is a fixed cost or a variable cost or perhaps even more to the point that it will need to reach the cost of libraries are fixed and variable and the differing views both within the panel and schools about that and the panel is continuing deliberating research . |
| 13 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 14 | Which part of town ? of course , your budget is going to rule out many areas — for example , Knightsbridge is out of bounds for all but the super-rich . |
| 15 | While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation . |
| 16 | The term ‘ constitution ’ , as S E Finer shows , is to be understood in positivistic terms as a code of rules which aspire to regulate the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government , and defines the relationships between these and the public . |
| 17 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 18 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |
| 19 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 20 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 21 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 22 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 23 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 24 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 25 | and erm , but I I have to say that I , I do believe that we need to address more particularly er the transport a aspects of this and the planning aspects of it which , I think er are tending to get eased out of the er agenda , any way , if I may say er in respect of trading standards and the legal aspects of er the , the er produce that 's being sold there . |
| 26 | Of course , one kind of answer to the why has to do with the particularities of each and every research project . |
| 27 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |
| 28 | For those readers with little or no background in geology there are a number of excellent introductory texts . |
| 29 | Very dark halls with little or no natural light will benefit from what the Americans call ‘ Plugmold ’ . |
| 30 | Freud 's difficulties arose because he did not fully appreciate the need for co-operation between patient and therapist : he was inclined to treat his patients as docile subjects with little or no role to play . |