Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was manifest that the powers under section 39 overrode the duty of confidence , in particular having regard to the requirements of Schedule 3 , where breach of customers ' confidence was inevitable , for example when disclosing loans or deposits for the purposes of that Schedule ; the same applied to disclosure of large exposures under section 38 . |
| 2 | The Commission accused Macierewicz of " hypocrisy and an attempt to avoid the eventual legal consequences " in claiming that the documents were " informative " rather than lists of collaborators ' names as the Sejm resolution demanded . |
| 3 | Librarians need to know how comprehensive are suppliers ' approval collections , databases and listings , and to evaluate how far suppliers ' showroom stocks — and stock revision lists reflect ‘ the best ’ of what is available in print ( rather than collections of publishers ' cast-offs ) . |
| 4 | Although studies of children 's explanations have identified some weaknesses , the overall picture , as with many other aspects of cognitive and linguistic development , is of an extremely competent five-year-old who has the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities for giving and understanding explanations of events and actions . |
| 5 | Although arguments about women 's impurity are not used explicitly in the statements of the Vatican and various national episcopacies against women 's ordination , they are implied . |
| 6 | I find this particular facility to be more usable than Word For Windows ' text fiddling tools , purely because you can use any font you wish , as long as it is installed in Windows . |
| 7 | The Birmingham Feminist History Group ( 1979 ) have argued that although notions of women 's equality were important in the 1950s , nevertheless : ‘ Ideologies about women in the fifties are underpinned by the notion of equal but different — men and women have their special spheres ; and women bring different qualities ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 8 | Salah Muhammad no doubt found his task relatively easy because opposition to women 's education was not organized in any formal way . |
| 9 | Gender is a key source of variation as is ethnicity , which cross-cuts gender because ideas about men 's and women 's roles in the family do vary among the ethnically diverse groups of which the British population is now composed ( Anthias and Yuval-Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Because items like 'starlings ' and " green smoke " have single referents they are readily susceptible to paraphrase . |
| 11 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 12 | The SCOTVEC system will provide national audit criteria as benchmarks for centres ' internal quality systems to be measured against and also as targets against which those systems can be developed . |
| 13 | One dramatic concomitant is rising fertility among unmarried teenage girls , though changes in women 's education standards and work status can hardly be held accountable for such a sharp upswing in teenage fertility as the past decade has witnessed . |
| 14 | As Secretary of Women 's Affairs , my work was to fight for laws to protect and aid women workers . |
| 15 | For this study , when tests of mothers ' serum were the basis for referral the type of tests used were ascertained . |
| 16 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 17 | And you 'll save money on every book you buy — never less than 20% , often as much as 40% off publishers ' prices . |
| 18 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 19 | The right to buy policy and the alternative landlord scheme are presented as extensions of tenants ' choice , and for some this is undoubtedly the case . |