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

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1 We have seen that in Wagon Mound they did not define the kind of damage necessary as property damage but distinguished between damage by fouling and fire damage .
2 Even though men , traditionally , have more time for hobbies than women , especially when children are small , by retirement age many women who are not working full-time have made a programme of daytime social and leisure activities for themselves .
3 The rooms at the back were of course dark and pokey and the cupboards had a strange sickening shut-up smell that remained however much they aired them .
4 It is of course true that evidence will be difficult to acquire in cases of marital rape .
5 It is of course important that growth in size be linked to growth in maturity , otherwise we may simply see the fulfilment of Jesus ' warning about the seed sown on the rock , which shoots up fast but withers because its roots are not deep enough .
6 In Andersen Consulting v CHP Consulting Ltd. ( 1991 ) , a case concerning a dispute about maintenance of computer software by third parties , it was said that confidence is frequently used in connection with copyright material as it is : of course notorious that copyright protects only the expression of ideas and does not protect the idea itself
7 Sources of income other than unemployment benefits and earnings do matter , but less than benefits and earnings ( similar results appear in Atkinson , et al.
8 There are particular difficulties on the question of whether a covenant is purely personal or runs with the land where the obligation in question , whether on the part of the lessor , lessee , or third party guarantor , involves the payment of money other than rent .
9 assignment of rights of action possible but assignee must be able to show genuine commercial interest .
10 Participation and active citizenship therefore have a limited role due to the desire to preserve stability and the claims that it is unrealistic to have citizens active in decision-making ; ‘ the electoral mass is incapable of action other than stampede ’ .
11 The performance of each dictionary was tested using each of the three documents , and measured in terms of percentage correct and z-score ( the t-score could now be replaced by the z-score since sample sizes were sufficiently large ) .
12 The law recognises degrees of homicide other than murder and is observed with some nicety on the matter of recklessness or assault with intent to cause bodily harm .
13 This may well make the act of intercourse uncomfortable and batter and bruise the external genitalia and the opening of the urethra .
14 Table 4.3 Multivariate analysis of serum lipid and lipoprotein levels , for the incidence of coronary heart disease in the Framington Study , 1977
15 It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments .
16 Forms of credit other than hire purchase were largely neighbourhood based .
17 The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity .
18 A comparison between the figures given in the table and similar figures for the period 1947–1964 suggests an increase of about 25 per cent. , virtually confined to Chichester and Rye Harbour gravel pits and clearly correlated with the increase of water available as digging progressed .
19 Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier .
20 Most forms of capital other than land escaped , while the real burden on land itself was , according to O'Brien and Mathias , " light and diminishing " .
21 He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition .
22 And I would agree with Schatzman that ‘ possibly one day we shall speak of lingua somatic or psycho semantic not psychosomatic illnesses . ’
23 The average torque per phase can then be found by averaging the instantaneous torque over one cycle — This method can be repeated for each excitation scheme to give an exact expression for the pull-out torque in terms of phase current and inductance .
24 The awards came in a survey conducted among readers of TV Quick and TV Weekly .
25 In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting .
26 In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting .
27 This tends to leave their perception of their own teaching — both how they do it and how well they are doing — in a rather uncomfortable vacuum , especially if the staffroom ethos prohibits any kind of discussion other than crisis-management and grumbles about individual or whole-class ‘ personalities ’ .
28 Quality of client brief and design .
29 In the end , however , his thought eliminates conflict between the individual and the society , because , as in the sociology derived from Durkheim , there is no source of value other than society itself .
30 The would-be astronauts will be spun in a giant centrifuge to simulate the experience of rocket lift-off and re-entry , and sealed inside altitude chambers to experience the lack of oxygen at 16,500 feet .
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