Example sentences of "[conj] prevail [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While it is in these that we are primarily interested in for the development of teaching material , they are likely to be dependent on the climate of attitudes that prevails in the lesson .
2 It is in yachtsmen 's best interests that some flexibility is permitted now , otherwise all the wide and diverse skills that prevail on the Hamble at the present time will gradually disappear .
3 That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time .
4 An undated set of questionnaires in the 1922 file for the Roslavl' area reveals the prickly atmosphere that prevailed between the busybodies from the towns , as the rustics perceived them , and the primitive mores of the rustics themselves .
5 The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed .
6 Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were in office in conditions far removed from those that prevailed at the beginning of the decade .
7 I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time .
8 It should wear off eventually — in a week , a month or a year — depending on the astrological and meteorological conditions that prevailed at the time she launched it .
9 The general climate of gradual relaxation of constraints against foreign ownership that prevailed at the end of the decade has probably extended to the Chinese and the smaller Indian local population .
10 Charter parties are common and can still be classified into the three main types that prevailed at the end of the second world war : demise , voyage , and time charters .
11 Alnwick had a relaxed air this evening that was a complete contrast to the bustle that prevailed during the day .
12 All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century .
13 The Harter Act failed , for example , to forbid the low limits on damages that prevailed throughout the shipping world at the turn of the century .
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