Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We acknowledge that individuals drawn to WFS 's conference possibly had genuine intentions , but we have no confidence that the aims , objectives , and structure will set the path for building a women 's movement . |
| 2 | Haider had been dismissed as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 for praising the Nazis ' employment policies [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 3 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 4 | It may well be worth surveying the teachers ' intentions and , later , their further use as a guide to improving long-term take-up . |
| 5 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 6 | After signing the visitors ' book , the couple were driven at high speed to Seoul 's new £4 million British Embassy . |
| 7 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 8 | Mr Masduki , after attending the miners ' rallies in London last year , said that he dreamt of the day that ‘ this could happen in Indonesia ’ . |
| 9 | In such cases the court will , when giving reasons for striking out and after hearing the parties ' representatives if they wish , indicate who in its view is to blame for the delay , thus assisting the process of professional disciplinary sanctions and the pursuit of compensation by litigants . |
| 10 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 11 | When Lufthansa pulled out of sponsoring the Women 's European Open , Mrs Doyle replaced them with The European newspaper . |
| 12 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
| 13 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 14 | To reform an unconscionable decision of the courts which is unworkable in practice ; Parliament may pass an Act which has the effect of overruling the courts ' decision . |
| 15 | In the second volume of his Principles of Geology , Lyell had addressed the question of geographical distribution as a means of challenging the catastrophists ' notion of mass extinctions . |
| 16 | These agreements not only had the effect of gaining the Indians ' approval of the film but also lent it a greater authenticity . |
| 17 | At national conferences such as Acton and Edinburgh , the lesbians in general , and the separatists in particular , were accused of being elitist , divisive , of tearing the women 's movement apart , and taking energy away from ‘ the real struggle ’ . |
| 18 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 19 | The less squeamish members of the group had the delight of checking the others ' feet , while they sat with gritted teeth and eyes tight shut . |
| 20 | The application by Mr. Wadsworth on behalf of the appellants to adduce fresh evidence before this court is for the purpose of explaining the appellants ' apparently defiant behaviour towards the judge , and the first question we have to address our minds to is whether that evidence should be admitted . |
| 21 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 22 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 23 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 24 | The second will tend rather towards structuring the students ' thinking towards the creation of language activities in different modes . |
| 25 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 26 | Offsetting this barrier is the possibility that the costs of imitating the leaders ' original innovations can be much cheaper . |
| 27 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 28 | Instead of fostering the peasants ' bid for liberty , the commissars emasculated local peasants organizations and , by forcibly requisitioning grain , did all they could to subject the peasantry to the dictates of the State . |
| 29 | I 'm extremely disappointed , that erm , we do n't seem to make any progress towards getting the savings erm , that , that , erm , we were promised . |
| 30 | The experiment of holding a members ' team quiz , at a time when travel from outside the area might be difficult , has been agreed to be worth repeating . |