Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 2 | It is worth adding , as something of an aside , that the experimental result just described not only gives reasons for preferring the associative account but also seems to demand an explanation in terms of acquired equivalence rather than acquired distinctiveness . |
| 3 | Secondly , the fiction/concession theory could have supplied an image of the company as separate and distinct from its shareholders which would also have supported the institution of limited liability , but there were strong reasons for preferring the natural-entity model of the company . |
| 4 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 5 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 6 | There are other reasons for using the phonological code , either before or after word recognition has been obtained , and some which go towards explaining its extensive use include : 1 allowing the generation of a memory of what has been read , 2 imposing an intonation upon the print in the service of comprehension , 3 imposing an external control on the reader 's attention to help convert the two-dimensional spatial display of text into a form appreciated by our temporally one-dimensional conscious processes . |
| 7 | If the Conservatives dismissed the British Union of Fascists without too much concern — and most could see no good political reasons for embracing the fascist faith — they could not dismiss the threat of European fascism so easily , and attempted to accommodate it instead . |
| 8 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 9 | reasons for taking the general SVQ |
| 10 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 11 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 12 | There were sound technical reasons for keeping the regular cast no smaller than four . |
| 13 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 14 | Since we are going to discover other reasons for rejecting the tripartite definition , we have no reason to pursue this point here . |
| 15 | This simplifying assumption may turn out to be incorrect — future psycholinguistic research may provide evidence that different lexicons are involved in the perception and production of language , or that different lexicons are involved in the processing of spoken and written language — but at present there are no good reasons for rejecting the simplifying assumption of a single mental lexicon . |
| 16 | The threat to British interests had changed , with international Communism replacing the political and military intrigues of predator European powers and Tsarist Russia of earlier centuries , but the policies for meeting the new threat remained traditional : the judicious stationing of garrisons to protect overseas territories from external aggression and from internal subversion ; the deployment of naval forces to maintain the freedom of the seas in areas of British interest ; and the positioning of strategic reserves at key points , like Egypt and Singapore , on the imperial lines of communication through Suez to the Far East . |
| 17 | This in turn was involved with government policies for promoting the nuclear generation of electricity , open cast mining and the privatization of electricity generation , with the threatened increased use of cheap imported coal . |
| 18 | She looks at national and local policies for mitigating the educational effects of gender and ethnic differences . |
| 19 | We investigate whether the adverse entropy changes observed experimentally for the melting of single strands of nucleic acids provide guide-lines for estimating the entropic cost of organising the nucleotide backbone in double helical structures . |
| 20 | With his plans for afforesting the poorer parts of his ancestral acres , the replanting , the harvesting of his mature timber crops , his Christmas-tree plantations of Norway spruce , he knew exactly what he was doing . |
| 21 | By early 1937 Waismann completed Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , but the Anschluss and later the invasion of Holland frustrated his plans for publishing the German text . |
| 22 | The report also outlined areas in which implementation of the White Paper had been delayed , including the publication of strategic reviews of nuclear and renewable energy , both of which had been postponed , and the failure of many local authorities to publish plans for achieving the 25 per cent recycling target . |
| 23 | In addition , Mary Wilson was also a keen campaigner for women 's brothels and contributed an essay to The Voluptarian Cabinet on this subject under the title Adultery on the Part of Married Women , and Fornication on the Part of Old maids and Widows defended by Mary Wilson , Spinster , with Plans for Promoting the same , Addressed to the Ladies of the Metropolis and its Environs . |
| 24 | In November 1911 Chapman added his own voice to many others suggesting plans for restructuring the entire league system . |
| 25 | In a letter to Greenpeace acid rain campaigner Andy Tickle , D. Aspinwall of the Air Quality Division in the Department of the Environment wrote on 20 March 1990 : ‘ You suggest that the Government has changed its plans for implementing the large combustion plants Directive . |
| 26 | We hear about his plans for harnessing the luminescent power of putrescent meat ( ’ I have read a Geneva Bible by a leg of pork ’ ) , and about his experiments with bottled air ( ’ Isle of Dogs air is the heaviest ’ ) . |
| 27 | The house would not approve the prime minister 's plans for scrapping the social security system . |
| 28 | They should instead produce clear policies and programmes for reinvigorating the local parties and be judged on them . |
| 29 | Against this background the member states of the Community asked the Commission to put forward proposals for achieving the single market . |
| 30 | Unesco 's proposals for helping the National Library are also of interest : one suggestion is to connect the library 's book stores by satellite with the information network in other countries . |