Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 2 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 3 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 4 | Often what begin as experimental course-work exercises of only medium-to-poor standard become high.quality on.going productions as teachers not only get accustomed to the requirements of curriculum materials planning but recognize through experience the stimulating value of these materials in their work with students . |
| 5 | Then we learned the hymns for mass the following morning . |
| 6 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline system has detected that the media item may be faulty . |
| 7 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline Operator has indicated that the media item may be faulty . |
| 8 | For instance the outside hand balances the inside hand directs . |
| 9 | For instance the 1970s concern remains that public expenditure pay may neither be under control for particular groups of workers nor spent wisely or efficiently for others . |
| 10 | In their most liquid markets New York and Los Angeles , for instance the Real Estate Data Inc publication will give you comprehensive details of ownership , values and rents on a street-by-street basis . ’ |
| 11 | JE : Yes , much of the music he wrote for you , for instance the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia , lies very low , particularly the slumber song that precedes the rape . |
| 12 | Take for instance the current edition of the British Medical Journal . |
| 13 | mental institution and having to give up his job because once they get that position if they speak out , in any way , for instance the Civil Service you ca n't speak out at all even if you can see something that you know is wrong |
| 14 | Some cakes will be particularly attractive to younger children — for instance the colourful clown , the sheep with its woolly coat made from fluffy frosting , or the large tortoise nibbling a piece of lettuce . |
| 15 | Cases of it are known , for instance the intriguing phenomenon called meiotic drive . |
| 16 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 17 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 18 | It needs to be appreciated that pupils with defective vision may respond inappropriately as a result of missing visual detail , for instance the facial expression and body gestures of others . |
| 19 | For the process to proceed smoothly it is necessary to ensure that responsibility for overall policy decisions is assigned to an appropriate individual or group ( for instance the managing director or the board of directors ) . |
| 20 | The spectrum of religious beliefs is best approached initially through compendia : for instance the Concise Encyclopaedia of Living Faiths , edited by R.C. Zaehner , or the more recent Handbook of Living Religions , edited by John R. Hinnells ( which has bibliographies for each religious tradition ) . |
| 21 | Most of the problems that are arising are not just because of the Trusts but because of other things like for instance the contracting process that is proposed , the t the changing in the financing that is incorporated and of course the general under-funding which there is within the N H S. These are far more important problems in the long term . |
| 22 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 23 | This morning for instance the Scottish executive of the people 's party will have an opportunity to examine the fruits of some of the labours of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , which has been functioning as the honest broker following the swiftly evaporating euphoria of the 25,000 souls who turned up on 12 December . |
| 24 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 25 | For instance the chronological grouping of particular watermarks has revealed that a small portrait of Petrus Sylvius , Saskia 's cousin , was printed twice : once in 1637 , which is the date below Rembrandt 's signature this was on the occasion of Sylvius 's move from Amsterdam to Friesland after he had been received as a minister of the church and again , in an unaltered state still carrying the date of 1637 much later , in 1653 . |
| 26 | I 'm hopeful with the royal family getting so involved in lobbies and British charities which do lobby , and for instance the anti-smoking lobby , where there 's somebody that 's supporting that there 's always going to be somebody who 's opposing that . |
| 27 | They are political constraints , particularly with the U N , they are political ones when one considers government to government aid , I mean at the moment for instance the British Administration will only give large , significant amounts of emergency relief to countries which are already recipients of British development aid . |
| 28 | Of the two the electromagnetic force is intrinsically far stronger : for instance the electric repulsion of two protons is 10 36 times stronger than their gravitational attraction . |
| 29 | For hymnody the main source of those with a traditional approach to the office hymn is The English Hymnal ( or The New English Hymnal ) . |
| 30 | In view of the grave nature of the crime he appeared in Inveraray before Mr John Campbell and a jury for sentence the next day . |