Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a speech by Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , to barristers this month , there have been fears that senior judges involved in drawing up rules would effectively block the use of the new rights in practice , by insisting that preparation of some cases and their presentation in court should be handled by different people . |
| 2 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 3 | To part with that money at this moment would wipe out my future . |
| 4 | The balance of this er well the community groups we do n't feel it 's right to spend that money at this point in time until we 've sorted out er where the other four hundred odd thousand pounds is actually going in that budget before we start throwing even more money . |
| 5 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 6 | She was under a duty to use the money to pay the gas bills ( cf. Hall , where the accused was not under a duty to use that money for that holiday ) . |
| 7 | I think they could have kept that money for that purpose what they want now , not to throw it across there . |
| 8 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 9 | Each component of these models was then expanded in the same manner to identify the associated activities . |
| 10 | Thus , even on the unrealistic assumption that consumers acting through the market are able to force managements to produce at the lowest possible cost , companies nevertheless retain a discretion within that constraint over such issues as plant location , appropriate levels of automation , and policy on research and development , since these and other delegated questions do not yield unique least-cost solutions . |
| 11 | Alas , the Gulf crisis has created a new phrase to frustrate travellers with little patience for this abuse of the English language . |
| 12 | Shinwell , of course , had little patience with such assertions , though he later conceded that running the finances of the Sailors and Firemen was far from easy . |
| 13 | Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives . |
| 14 | Although de Gaulle recognized as much , he and his regime made little progress in that direction , and it is surely too simplistic to lay the entire blame for this failure at Pompidou 's door ( as the General 's admirers are inclined to do ) . |
| 15 | Likewise , the Christian mind will make little progress in any direction unless its presuppositions are completely and consistently renewed by being brought into line with the whole of God 's truth . |
| 16 | I have little experience in these matters . |
| 17 | It 's funny 'cos , I mean , the T V news actually provides that function in this country , I think , of the middle ground , whereas it seems to me on a very limited sort of reading that the T V news erm provides a different sort of service in the States . |
| 18 | An in that case , now certain can the IRB be that admission to those World Cup matches will not only be freely available to , but will be as readily affordable , by the majority of South Africans , and not necessarily only the privileged few ? |
| 19 | Here is that coverage by that company . |
| 20 | W was that decision to any extent er influenced by , if I can put it rather er ineptly , the state of blood hound when it was taken out of service . |
| 21 | And the inspector will have to make that judgement in this case . |
| 22 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 23 | Other dealers felt little sympathy for this director . |
| 24 | ( Please complete this section PLUS section IIC individually for each course of this type ) |
| 25 | Apart from the difficulties of physically getting into clothes and fastening them , the patient also has to identify what each garment is , which way it goes on , and to which part of the body each part of each garment belongs . |
| 26 | Each part of these proposals is now considered . |
| 27 | Well , but it will not be effective until er , you have produced that license to this court . |
| 28 | Now the modern Sylvia realized that the family had very little money at that time and that the birthday party given for her was probably quite a meagre affair compared with the boisterous celebrations on her own children 's birthdays . |
| 29 | Having no steady work means Texas has little money for such luxuries , anyway . |
| 30 | There 's little money in this business , Nancy , little money and no thanks — but I 'm fond of seeing the young people around me . ’ |