Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 2 | For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history . |
| 3 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 4 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 5 | The DES accompanied the report with Circular 11/77 , ‘ The Training of Teachers for Further Education ’ , in which it declared the Secretary of State 's support for the proposals in principle , together with the hope that an early start would be made on their implementation , ‘ so far as this is possible within existing resources ’ . |
| 6 | This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power . |
| 7 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 8 | This imbalance has led to Eureka Audiovisual establishing the following priorities for its work ; the exchange and broadcasting of European works ; training , to encourage competition among European companies ; to assist countries with small production bases and minority languages ; to promote new technologies ; to create more networking opportunities for the industries of cinema and television . |
| 9 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 10 | Scrounged a kipper off our tour manager Tel for breakfast , and then went about cleaning some chimneys for the nobs up West . |
| 11 | Particularly for the concepts of accountability outlined in Divisions I and II of table 2.1 , an important way to communicate accountability is through the provision of financial , and related , information — financial accountability . |
| 12 | Slipstreaming away , waiting for the bits of gristle from the sandwiches . |
| 13 | It was empty now , except for the bits of string and wood that the nomes had used . |
| 14 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |
| 15 | And consequently , er the blockade did have er did have serious er serious consequences for the imports in relation to food etcetera , that er that were required by the er by the republican government . |
| 16 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 17 | The ideal is that the system adopted should guarantee ( 1 ) a unified internal European market for the products of biotechnology , ( 2 ) a consistent regulatory approach in all EEC countries , and ( 3 ) a common level of human and environmental protection . |
| 18 | The most reliable and valid yardstick of creativeness , of course , is retrospective , the capacity for the products of originality to survive the fleeting whims of taste , fashion , or claims as to their truth or value . |
| 19 | Unless the proceeds of industry were more equally distributed — putting cash in the hands of working-class people who would spend it not save it — the market for the products of industry would tend to dry up , leading to recurrent crises of over-production or , as he preferred to describe it , under-consumption . |
| 20 | The extent to which the desire for the products of industry , beyond necessities , results from the processes of want-creation as distinct from pre-existing materialistic tendencies is obscure , but there is some plausibility in Galbraith 's picture of a corporate system whose power includes an ability not only to stimulate demand for particular goods but also to shape prevailing social values . |
| 21 | For the themes of savage and city it is Demant and Dawson who are important , though neither writer is gripping . |
| 22 | It recommends that resources for the developments in primary and community care to pump-prime and provide transitional support be secured urgently . |
| 23 | they gather for the rites of youth |
| 24 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 25 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 26 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 27 | It goes on : ’ ( 2 ) The CAP negotiations must build on reasonably broad agreement on the principle of resource withdrawal in the shape of arable set-aside. ( 3 ) The negotiations must also develop constructively the common thread of agreement on the environment , and on the need for permanent measures to compensate for the disadvantages of farming in Less Favoured Areas . |
| 28 | It is common for the articles of association of a company that is a management buy-out vehicle , a joint venture company , or which is owned by multiple shareholders to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the consent of specified individuals . |
| 29 | The Terms Nos 1 – 8 listed as applying to " small claims " procedure all apply where an outside arbitrator is appointed , except for the powers under Ord 17 exercisable by a district judge on a pre-trial review ( see notes on " Pre-Trial Review " ) . |
| 30 | The master said : If there are no lovers for the beauties of Khvarism , yet Khvarism must have its lovers , seeing there are countless beauties in that land . |