Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern .
2 Students turned against their universities and universities are the most important institutions for the professional-managerial class .
3 Fran Bennett 's article on ‘ The State , Welfare and Women 's Dependence ’ ( Bennett , 1983 ) gives an excellent account of the different strands within the contemporary women 's movement and their views about the appropriate source of an income for women .
4 Patient views about the appropriate role and relationships between themselves and general practitioners will also be explored .
5 And was he even the same guy as the one with markedly dodgy views about the international situation in the Far East ?
6 Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures .
7 Allied to this are views about the limited efficacy of law .
8 Right now I do n't want to get you up I want to encourage you to set your alarm for seven o'clock , quite low , and when I come on at about two minutes past just snuggle up to your wireless and enjoy the music and the news and the views about the religious scene in and around North Yorkshire and beyond .
9 But parents ‘ should not hold prejudiced views about the other race which might be uncomfortable for a mixed-race child ’ .
10 He became a Congregational minister , but his views about God 's inclusive care for the ‘ ’ heathen ’ and his views about the divine revelation in the Bible , brought him into conflict with the narrow-mindedness of some of his congregation , and in 1893 he left the ministry to devote himself to writing .
11 Gentlemen , you all know Miss Jarman 's views about the unfortunate voyage of the Princess .
12 They find themselves operating between two broad publics or constituencies with competing views about the proper realm of government in regulating the economy .
13 By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications .
14 By way of introduction , this chapter outlines three views about the proper role and status of the media : the Mobilizing Ideal , the Libertarian Ideal , and the Public Service Ideal .
15 Views about the proper role and function of judicial remedies to control government activity are inevitably political in nature in the sense that they concern the allocation of decision-making power in society .
16 Views about the exact composition of virtue , male and female , have changed over time , and they may vary , too , with differing social and geographical contexts , but the underlying theme is constant : the theme , that is , of difference .
17 In spring 1991 a research project was used to further the debate in a broader context of views about the whole decision-making process within the school .
18 Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose .
19 The government can make its value judgements about distribution or equality and can pursue its views about the desirable degree of vertical equity without impairing the efficient functioning of a free market economy .
20 A major theory under the economic heading argues that the material forces that produced fascism in other countries ( whatever one 's views about the social base of such movements ) were insufficiently rigorous to operate in Great Britain , even though the 1930s brought severe hardship in certain areas .
21 He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan .
22 Major topics in this literature are marital happiness , the division of labour and the general patterning of husband-wife roles ; the combination of women 's employment with marriage , and its consequences for husband-wife and mother-child relationships ; the inter-relationships between the nuclear family and the wider kinship system ; and the ‘ captive wife ’ syndrome — the socially isolated situation of women with young children .
23 This followed a succession of smaller mergers during the previous decade as the once dominant , but then struggling , independent British car makers joined together in an attempt to gain economies of scale and to maintain their market share in the face of fierce international competition .
24 Opposition Members would welcome the opportunity to debate Government and Opposition policies during the general election campaign , but , given that the Prime Minister does not have the guts to call an election , can you please ensure that , during the few remaining weeks of the Government 's period of office , Prime Minister 's Question Time will be used to ask the Prime Minister questions about Government policy ?
25 Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone .
26 A joint money laundering steering group was convened to revise UK money laundering guidance notes for the financial sector and examine how a new statutory requirement for employers to train relevant staff in recognising and reporting suspect transactions will be met .
27 Most of the reading recommended in the notes for the previous chapter is relevant for this one too .
28 I should add that Decca are still using the notes for the original LP set .
29 Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass .
30 Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass .
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