Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 2 | Although both groups tend to appear as a limited disease , most cases being in stage I-IIE , the morphohistological subtype seems to be a decisive factor in dissemination , as only one case ( 5% ) of low grade/mixed grade compared with 20% of the patients with high grade were classified as stage IV . |
| 3 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 4 | Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour . |
| 5 | Many of the cases appear to turn upon a consideration of whether the payment was voluntary or involuntary . |
| 6 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 7 | These results indicate that index futures appear to conform to a general pattern of leptokurtosis . |
| 8 | ‘ Is nice , ’ said Adam , lapsing into broken English like foreigners tend to do in a strange land . |
| 9 | So , if the clients want to invest in a fund , they can do . |
| 10 | On the other hand , overt researchers are not only expected to ask questions that could seem impertinent coming from anyone else , but they might also find themselves sought out and given confidences that the believers want to share with a ‘ stranger ’ who has some understanding of their beliefs , but is not actually part of the official organisation . |
| 11 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 12 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 13 | Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed . |
| 14 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 15 | There are also major problems with compaction and the abandoned ranches become covered in a stunted tangle of indigenous pioneers and exotics . |
| 16 | Instead of a single central processor autocratically controlling a whole computation , large numbers of autonomous computing units cooperate to arrive in a communal state which reflects the outcome of the computation . |
| 17 | But some examinees fail to search for a connection between the book-work question and the rider , thus missing the point intended by the examiner , while other examinees , finding no connection between the two ( in fact there being none ) , avoid the question altogether . |
| 18 | To the extent that interest rates and yields do fall with an expansion of the money supply , people may well hold larger money balances : after all , the opportunity cost of holding that liquidity ( i.e. the interest sacrificed by not holding bonds , etc. ) has been reduced . |
| 19 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 20 | SHELL forecourts have sailed into a ‘ discrimination ’ row over ferry crossings . |
| 21 | The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive . |
| 22 | Attempts to highlight and remove differing forms of sexism , sexual inequalities and discrimination in schools have led to a range of policy statements and strategies from local education authorities and individual schools . |
| 23 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 24 | TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College . |
| 25 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 26 | Much less satisfactory , however , is the harsh rule that holds a writer responsible for unintentional defamation , where readers have jumped to a conclusion which was never intended . |
| 27 | The Governors of the eight US states abutting the Great Lakes have agreed on a series of voluntary pollution controls . |
| 28 | It is surprising how few units have changed to a cheaper implant in the face of a limiting budget for prostheses . |
| 29 | Unstereotyped , of striking beauty and enduring strength , the north Wales castles have survived as a unique and lasting monument to their age and their creator . |
| 30 | PC Fishwick said it is likely the ties have come from a shop in the North-East or North Yorkshire . |