Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her clashes with other European heads of state over Britain 's budgetary contribution to the Community aroused all her basic emotions : here , indeed , she had strong support in Britain itself where sympathy for the bureaucrats of Brussels , with their butter mountains and wine lakes , was distinctly muted . |
| 2 | ( It might be useful to remind the reader at this point that the Speech and Drama movement , although fading at the school level , had become firmly entrenched in teacher colleges where many well qualified Speech and Drama people had gained appointments , colleges such as Trent Park and Goldsmiths ' , where teacher-training in the arts was not unlike theatre-training . ) |
| 3 | When they came out of it they often grew crazily rapturous simply at returning to ‘ a world of colour , meadows and flowers and woods … where rain on the roofs sounds like a harmonic music ’ |
| 4 | The prime report is in the form of a ‘ tear chart ’ ( fig 2 ) , where analysis of the sentences in the text is presented as a series of points on an XY graph ( box 1 ) of the number of long words in a sentence plotted against the total number of words in the sentence . |
| 5 | Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible . |
| 6 | Over these shorter distances where time on the feet is reduced , racing shoes can benefit most runners whether actually or psychologically . |
| 7 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
| 8 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | In practice , as we have seen above , it may be people 's own anticipation of lender distaste for these circumstances , rather than decision by the lenders themselves , which dumps people in this credit ghetto . |
| 10 | Marketing research involves a more active search for information than reliance on the sources listed above . |
| 11 | Cutting the small figures to an equal depth , the sculptor found himself forced to consider their three-dimensionality , to think of them as statues ; and it is this probably rather than emulation of the terror-masks that makes so many of them turn to look at us . |
| 12 | That implies moving towards prohibitions with penalties for conduct in breach of them , rather than appraisal of the outcomes of the conduct against some yardstick of the public interest . |
| 13 | In general , then , the discursive trend is towards establishing approved modes of argument and debate according to Parliamentary and legal criteria rather than submission to the rigours of the scientific proof . |
| 14 | But what else he could paint , other than trash for the tourists , brought him back to earth . |
| 15 | It should also encompass an intent to have anal intercourse or commit an act of gross indecency since such conduct ‘ would be regarded by many as more serious than abduction for the purposes of sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 16 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 17 | The public softening of Turkey 's attitude towards the Kurds may , in the end , be less a change in policy than recognition of the difficulties in controlling what happens across the border in northern Iraq . |
| 18 | Before that happens Britain will be in no position to do much more than talk about the implications of new technology . |
| 19 | Although opposition to the bondholders ' position was voiced loudly at the 1978 Annual General Meeting — when R.C.E. ( Robert ) Naish ( a non-bondholder with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare ) became President — it at least caused the bondholders to consider the question of their status . |
| 20 | Although inclusion on the registers would not mean land was actually contaminated , developers feared it would inevitably mean a drop in values . |
| 21 | Although deregulation in the markets for products , services and labour has brought benefits in the form of more choice and lower prices , the liberalisation of financial markets may leave a less happy legacy . |
| 22 | The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes . |
| 23 | This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged . |
| 24 | The prospect of Arthur Scargill entering Parliament invites mild derision rather than anxiety in the suburbs . |
| 25 | It is , in my view , necessary for the plaintiffs to do more than point to the provisions of the statute . |
| 26 | Perhaps this reflects over-ambitious goals rather than failure of the projects , for it will only be when attempts to calm large areas are made that possibilities emerge of encouraging former car journeys to be made by public transport . |
| 27 | On the state of the evidence at the moment , it may well be that there will be a request for to withdraw the case from the jury on the grounds that no reasonable jury properly directed could conceivably find er a anything other than reasonableness in the police acting upon the information they had and that 's for me to decide . |
| 28 | She had heard of storms great enough to flood some of the booths near to the shore , but never one that had thrown more than spray on the walls of the longhouses . |
| 29 | Israel has benefited more from competition than co-operation between the superpowers in the region . |
| 30 | But the emphasis on control rather than competition in the relationships , and the sponsors ' proprietorial pride , indicates their resemblance to relationships not with sons , but with high-achieving , perpetually infantilized daughters . |