Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 offer an opportunity for help where work has deteriorated
2 Plea for help after mother grabs boy
3 The individual 's search for harmony Where power imbalances occur , the individual uses one or more of many checks to correct that imbalance .
4 Marketing research involves a more active search for information than reliance on the sources listed above .
5 Salmeterol seems to be up to 10 times more potent weight for weight than salbutamol for effects on heart rate , plasma potassium , and tremor .
6 It is true that the capitalist system of production with its inherent conflicts between workers and management makes for inefficiency but it is not necessarily true , as they claim , that collectivism is a more powerful force for productivity than individualism .
7 Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy .
8 Royal Cedar was a fourth winner from only eight runners for first season trainer , John McConnochie , who clearly paid a great deal of attention when assistant to Mercy Rimell .
9 Throughout the forty interviews a clear perception of housework as work emerges .
10 It may seem improper to juxtapose the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 , but the perception of homosexuality as obscenity is so widespread and homosexual literature continues to be seized and prosecuted under the various indecency laws , that it is not inappropriate to recall the Hicklin case in the present context .
11 There is no mention of faith because faith is not an important truth in this narrative .
12 These are the areas in which the remaining forest lands are located ; now only 22 per cent of the country is forested in comparison to nearly 100 per cent in 1900 and 66 per cent in 1945 ( Myers 1988 ) , which in itself constitutes a loss of revenue as timber exports ( a major source of foreign currency ) have declined in the last 20 years .
13 Teachers are not free to define the curriculum but this may be more a loss of face than substance .
14 Mrs. Wilson stressed that objections , if any , to any planning requests should be made without loss of time as action could be taken very quickly .
15 Mrs. Wilson stressed that objections , if any , to any planning requests should be made without loss of time as action could be taken very quickly .
16 As such , The Painted Nude is , indeed , a suggestive display , even if the debate which it stimulates seem to be more a result of accident than intention .
17 Each one hour excretion of PABA after instillation was obtained by subtracting background PABA from a one hour urine sample before instillation .
18 To return to my Degas quote : many of the writers seem to be appropriating what they see as ‘ feminist tools of socio-political deconstruction ’ by examining details of Degas ' work according to a binary opposition of woman as object/man as Baudelairean flaneur .
19 The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology .
20 This is because the study of poetry as poetry — rather than as historical or cultural material — is a matter of intuitive and affective response , not just of willingness to accept an intellectual discipline , as might be the case with philosophy , economics , and so forth .
21 All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse .
22 We then had a stroke of luck as Filden I broke down in Dieppe and the owner was sent to see if he could locate the trouble .
23 Originally Darlington College of Technology provided evening classes in adult literacy .
24 The town could also be a centre of excellence for nursery training , centred on the College of Technology where nursery nursing courses were already hugely oversubscribed .
25 Fermented from the clear , uncoloured juice of the black grape , Pinot Noir Champagnes have a deeper hue of gold than blanc de blancs Champagnes ( which can sometimes be almost water-white ) .
26 The 19th century saw a host of amateur archaeologists many of whom were more in search of treasure than knowledge .
27 As many teachers were unable to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Society when formal thanks were given and a presentation made to Hilary Weedon on the completion of her four year term of office as Chairman of the Executive Committee special thanks were given to her by Betty Syrett on behalf of the teachers .
28 Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position .
29 During his term of office as provost Councillor Thomson had a major role in attracting the Exacta Electronics firm to the town .
30 This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals .
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