Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the family deal with conflicts about colour within and without the family ? |
| 2 | Three reasons may be advanced for labelling these cases as manslaughter rather than murder . |
| 3 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 4 | Many of the orders were based on over-optimistic plans for expansion rather than the replacement of existing aircraft . |
| 5 | However , such a procedure is not always suitable for explanatory research since , in this case , the aim is to achieve sufficient cases for analysis rather than a representative sample of some population . |
| 6 | Contracts for sale etc. or land to be made by signed writing 2. ( 1 ) A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made in writing and only by incorporating all the terms which the parties have expressly agreed in one document or , where contracts are exchanged , in each . |
| 7 | Much of the debate has related to reducing waiting times for surgery rather than for outpatient appointments . |
| 8 | Such an arrangement , if introduced , will not only simplify the grant system but should also be more neutral in effect ( by neither penalizing nor rewarding authorities for expenditure above or below GREA — see Wilson , 1986 , p. 52 ) . |
| 9 | encourage organic farming as a way to reduce massive European surpluses through Set Aside and Beef Extensification schemes . |
| 10 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 11 | It recommended the establishment of an independent body to review fees and also that theses fees should be seen as guidelines for negotiation rather than mandatory rates . |
| 12 | The desire of some parties for justice rather than finality fuels challenges to decisions ; parties whose challenges fail wish to sue the expert ; and the poorly defined boundary with arbitration provides material for disputes about disputes . |
| 13 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 14 | Similarly the artist Goncharova 's original gorgeously coloured designs for traditional Russian wedding costumes were made austere in keeping with Nijinska 's demands for simplicity even though Les Noces was to be danced sur les pointes . |
| 15 | The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program . |
| 16 | This also helps the printers with the positioning if you are supplying the images as artwork rather than treating them electronically . |
| 17 | There are also opportunities for service overseas where the veterinary surgeon can play a major part in the world-wide struggle against malnutrition , particularly in the developing countries . |
| 18 | The Party of European Socialists is constructing a European programme for jobs , growth and recovery to be channelled toward employment , intensive areas of growth , to tackle the pattern and distribution of work , to increase opportunities for employment rather than re-cycling unemployment and all of this to recognize that growth alone will not be enough . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been writing songs about prison ever since I started writing songs . |
| 20 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 21 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 22 | Dr Barsamian stresses , however , the importance of a correct understanding of such concepts and methods of analysis so as to avoid unrealistic expectations about their capabilities by non-experts . |
| 23 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 24 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 25 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 26 | Critics of the government 's drive for efficiency claim that it is motivated more by considerations of cost rather than of value for money or quality of service provided . |
| 27 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 28 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 29 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 30 | For navigation in the hyper-medium , it is important to be able to identify uniquely individual units of text so that cross-references can be resolved . |