Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | or of the Princess ' joke |
2 | He was aware of the lath and plaster clinging to the bottom of the joists ; put a foot through that and you 'd be right through the ceiling below ; chap could fall slap into the bath from here , probably ; or into the twins ' room , maybe ; perish the thought ; daddy coming crashing through the ceiling , give the little perishers nightmares for the rest of their lives . |
3 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
4 | This was true of his walks , of his quiet dinners at the Davidsons ' or in the Travellers ' Club , of his afternoons of reading or letter-writing . |
5 | Those who want to rent a privately-owned furnished flat or house must make their own arrangements , but each student can obtain a rent card from the Accommodation Office or from the Students ' Union . |
6 | Those who want to rent a privately-owned furnished flat or house must make their own arrangements , but each student can obtain a rent card from the Accommodation Office or from the Students ' Union . |
7 | Whether this increase will be applied to the employer 's or to the employees ' contributions remains to be seen . |
8 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
9 | This advice is usually given in ‘ one to one ’ meetings held in IDB House or on the companies ' premises . |
10 | Diana Gittins has concluded that couples whose worlds increasingly centred on the home , rather than on the culture of the workplace or on the spouses ' respective circles of friends , most frequently achieved their ideal family size . |
11 | The questionnaire on page 35 of this booklet should be completed and handed in at the Sport and Recreation Display on enrolment day or at the Sports ' Centre Reception . |
12 | A further provision of SI 274 extends the exemption to companies other than listed companies and those listed on specified exchanges , provided that the advertisement meets the general criteria , and consists of or is accompanied by the whole or any part of the body corporate 's annual accounts or by the directors ' report . |
13 | We have seen that the social collectivities often known as ‘ classes ’ in British society are reducible neither to economic classes in the Marxist sense nor to the sociologists ' occupational classes . |
14 | Saynor was acclaimed as the supporters ' player of the year and as the players ' choice . |
15 | Darryl Williams was handed two trophies the club 's player of the year and as the players ' player of the year . |
16 | Well I 'm very grateful to Mr for raising this in such a way and for the members ' contribution . |
17 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
18 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
19 | And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public . |
20 | There are rights of appeal against decisions of the Law Society and of the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal . |
21 | Phillips and Williams ( 1982d ) suggest a ‘ positive ’ approach to transfer management in the rural sector in which housing visitors ‘ scout ’ tenants and try to suggest ways in which a small ( and diminishing ) stock can be better used both in terms of persons per dwelling and of the tenants ' patterns of spatial behaviour . |
22 | The second required the establishment of boards of governors for polytechnics and other LEA-maintained colleges , and the specification of the governors ' functions vis-a-vis those of the LEAs and of the colleges ' principals . |
23 | The other residents who had legal standing were the sisters and younger brothers of the karanavan , and the children of the sisters and of the sisters ' daughters . |
24 | The Crown Prosecution Service were informed of Buckley J. 's order and of the plaintiffs ' intention to appeal from the decision of Wright J. , and were asked whether they wished to intervene or make representations in the appeal . |
25 | Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged . |
26 | He 'd studied acting with Stella Adler , a follower of Stanislavsky 's principles , and with the Actors ' Studio , bringing his ‘ method ’ acting to the New York stage as early as 1943 . |
27 | Hugh Thomas , the technical delegate , stressed that the changes have been made because of the conditions and with the horses ' safety in mind . |
28 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
29 | There can be little doubt that if the Prussians had not diverted social and economic pressure into anti-Semitic and anti-Polish fears along the eastern borders , the pressures of industrialisation , democracy and socialist thought would have clashed with the government 's determination to support the Junkers and with the Junkers ' manipulation of Völkisch opinion . |
30 | Then up to the ground floor again and into the Ladies ' Reading Room . |