Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our lucky winner will receive a complete new bathroom worth £1,000 chosen from the Armitage Shanks Cottage range in the new Chablis shade . |
| 2 | He sold a Holbein masterpiece earlier this year for £10million to pay for the upkeep of his estate . |
| 3 | The case for Nucella depends on the synonymy of N.theobroma Roding with Buccinum lapillus L. ( Winkworth , 1932 ) . |
| 4 | Only when a Logic 1 pulse is applied to Ck ( clock input ) it is possible for data applied to the S and R inputs to be allowed through to the bistable proper and take effect . |
| 5 | Crystallographic statistics for data used in the refinement of the repressor-operator complex . |
| 6 | In theory the program will run with 512k but this may leave the planner with inadequate memory for data associated with the plan . |
| 7 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 8 | Samples received from ICC show the ratio of characters to keystrokes to be 2:3 and the ratio for data delivered to the project team may increase to 1:2 . |
| 9 | Such activities were by no means limited to the slave trade . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most convincing indication of a dent in poverty is marketing information showing that the boom in consumer durables in the 1980s was by no means limited to the top 10% of the population . |
| 11 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 12 | Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period . |
| 13 | It is a striking fact , by no means lost on the men who have to pay for them , that the spirits which so plague their womenfolk have expensive tastes and invariably request such items as costly perfumes , jewellery , fine dresses , and delicious foods and sweetmeats . |
| 14 | To the disappointment of some of its supporters , the new Labour government proved to be by no means wedded to the idea that the British empire ought now summarily to come to an end . |
| 15 | Still , the Alvarez range is by no means confined to the self-consciously exotic : guitar-wise , there 's the non-scoop AED200 , a more conventional style of guitar which counterbalances the company 's more elaborate ambitions . |
| 16 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 17 | Discrimination in the job market is by no means confined to the medical profession . |
| 18 | Indeed , such an observation is by no means confined to the service sectors discussed here , and is a result of service policy pressures much wider than ( and perhaps in opposition to ) concerns about the provision of high quality community support . |
| 19 | Poverty and deprivation are by no means confined to the North . |
| 20 | But this role is by no means confined to the Twelve . |
| 21 | Irresponsible behaviour was by no means confined to the evacuees . |
| 22 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 23 | It by no means follows from the fact that x is a recognised authority in a discipline or professional field that x has authority to teach . |
| 24 | These facts by no means dispose of the controversy over the effects on economic performance of overseas investment . |
| 25 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 26 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |
| 27 | It had by no means disappeared from the Christianity of their descendants eighty years later . |
| 28 | There are very many more species , but I believe enough have been indicated to let you see that the rose is by no means restricted to the Hybrid Tea — there are many other kinds to provide variation and interest . |
| 29 | His personal rapport with Kennedy was one asset , but in addition , as on previous occasions , he could hope to play on the contradictions in American policy , and exploit the fact that Kennedy himself was by no means persuaded of the virtues of MLF . |
| 30 | But plans to build the hospice on a site in Upton , Wirral , were blocked after people living near the proposed development claimed the centre would cause too much disturbance and a colony of protected bats would be driven away . |