Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 2 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 3 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 4 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 6 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |
| 7 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 8 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 9 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 10 | It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum . |
| 11 | However , the significance of all this is unclear : in the southeastern part of the province there appears to be a greater inter-relationship of designs than in the west . |
| 12 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 13 | Lucien found it hard to doubt Azmaveth 's words because of the zeal with which she spoke , but he still had difficulty believing her . |
| 14 | The best image resolution was obtained from transverse images because of the orientation of the resonance frequency coils . |
| 15 | For many , the worst memories of that era are of food shortages because of the disruption to the agricultural system . |
| 16 | The prospect that perhaps hundreds of black and Asian children may have been wrongly consigned to special schools because of a failure properly to understand their needs is one which education authorities have been reluctant to confront . |
| 17 | The spadefish swim faster in schools because of a slime given off by the swimming fish . |
| 18 | However , Queen 's will be struggling for a scrum-half with former Irish Schools ' skipper Kenton Hillman ruled out for two months because of a shoulder injury , while centre Gerry Ross is heading for Trinity . |
| 19 | His replacement , Sosuke Uno , was forced out of office after only two months because of a sex scandal . |
| 20 | ABERDEEN 's Stewart McKimmie , who has not played a first-team game for seven months because of a knee injury , could be recalled for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final replay with Clydebank , at Kilbowie Park , tonight . |
| 21 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 22 | Halons are non-conducting , have low toxicity and put out fires fast , but production will effectively end in 18 months because of the damage they do to the ozone layer . |
| 23 | A student theatre has had to close for four months because of the risk of fire . |
| 24 | ‘ As bad as an Essex Ague ’ was a common expression ; and in the 1870s the garrison at Tilbury Fort was changed every six months because of the prevalence of malaria . |
| 25 | The DUP leader said the province was due extra funds because of the devaluation of sterling against the ECU — the common European currency used by the EC — since the UK left the Exchange Rate Mechanism last year . |
| 26 | This , of course , influences the tides because of the importance of its gravitational pull on the world 's oceans and seas . |
| 27 | Although the book will be published in a jurisdiction with literary proceeds legislation , the report indicates that the author may not be deprived of his royalties because of the absence of an identifiable victim . |
| 28 | There are differences among the units because of the need to adapt the standard model to the specific conditions of each site , such as its cooling capacities or degree of earthquake risk . |
| 29 | Serota , whose husband Nicholas is director of the Tate Gallery in London , is determined that Rambert should regain its place on the number one theatre touring circuit in Britain — but the Edinburgh Festival Theatre holds special attractions because of the size of its stage . |
| 30 | Carrie said , ‘ He sells saccharines in packets because of the sugar ration . |