Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This impressive linear earthwork running east-west is reckoned to be a division between the lands of Mercia to the north and Wessex to the south , and probably dates from the sixth or seventh century . |
| 32 | This division between the life-styles of men and women is well documented , but little is known about the precise form or effect of housework attitudes . |
| 33 | Their essence — setting up a division between the buyers of health care ( usually health authorities ) and its providers ( often hospitals ) — represents a huge improvement in the running of the NHS . |
| 34 | In addition to this general point about theory placing empirical practice into pre-determined boxes , there seems little historical rationale or evidence for this particular division between the types of functions and types of politics which characterize the local and the national state . |
| 35 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 36 | The Boadicea Club provides an opportunity for the tables to be turned . |
| 37 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 38 | I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed . |
| 39 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 40 | It provides an opportunity for the docklands to be redeveloped as a high quality , high density part of the city itself . |
| 41 | This is at the judge 's discretion ( Ord 21 , r 6(1) with opportunity for the parties to be present . |
| 42 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 43 | With such ambiguous structures , characterising any debate on how to improve them as a struggle between the principles of self-regulation and statutory regulation is unlikely to add to anybody 's understanding of the issues . |
| 44 | At the core of Hampden Babylon is a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil . |
| 45 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 46 | The other is between ‘ authoritarians ’ and ‘ democrats ’ , the classic struggle between the advocates of a strong state and the believers in popular sovereignty . |
| 47 | ‘ … This form of selection depends , not on a struggle for existence in relation to other organic beings or to external conditions , but on a struggle between the individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex . |
| 48 | A deeper pink suffused his face , colouring the skin between the freckles of pale orange that the tropical sun had cast there , and he took her by the wrists and said , in English , ‘ Maybe , we 'll see , maybe one day . ’ |
| 49 | Was he outgrowing his strength , she 'd wondered , as her other children had done , her vague fears of wasting fevers and rickety limbs vanishing to be replaced by incredulous horror as the soldiers on their tall horses had begun to charge . |
| 50 | A planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1984 allowed us to assemble a group of consultants and an architect to consider integrating these elements . |
| 51 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 52 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 53 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 54 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 55 | The portfolio would stay in Russia until authorities have given permission for the pictures to be exported . |
| 56 | The Dresden city government gave permission for the rallies to be held , insisting that refusal might have provoked violent demonstrations in the city , which had become a centre of radical right-wing activity since the end of the East German communist regime . |
| 57 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 58 | In the interim , as an earnest of the importance that we attach to this matter , my Department has today issued article 14 directions to prevent the county councils from granting permission for the applications for the time being . |
| 59 | ( 4 ) The provisions of section 68 of this Act shall apply to any remises or place in respect of which an occasional permission is granted as they apply to licensed premises , with the substitution of references to the holder of the permission for the references to the holder of a licence . |
| 60 | In Thomas Young v. Hobson ( 1949 C.A. ) the seller made a contract for the goods to be carried at ‘ owner 's risk . ’ |