Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Braham 's importance lies essentially in his ability to use mundane or ‘ innocent ’ objects as vehicles which carry the much heavier load . |
| 2 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 3 | Once the inner city is defined as a suitable case for treatment it becomes the logical social laboratory for any and all political , economic and social projects which can be presented as palliatives for the urban crisis . |
| 4 | Several member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) , in the context of the EC debate on European political union ( EPU ) , made proposals during October which addressed the issues of common European security and defence policy , and in particular the role of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , which currently comprised nine of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) but not Denmark , Greece or neutral Ireland . |
| 5 | A radical approach to shared assessment , which emphasises the importance of getting to know and understand each other ; the identification of aims in terms of what people would like to see happening ; and a process of considering plans for action which recognises the existence of different perspectives , moves the focus away from the usual concern with the individual and how he/she should change , to focus instead on the role of other people and wider circumstances . |
| 6 | The intimacy between couples who take an interest in each other is an essential ingredient of a lasting marriage . |
| 7 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 8 | In his support for helmets he adduces the case of Roger Davis . |
| 9 | Knowing a bit about Devonians I expressed no particular interest but commented on their rustiness and on the difficulty of getting spares for such old equipment . |
| 10 | Five and a half years … second sentence for inmate who kidnapped a prison officer . |
| 11 | Life ban for couple who starved an alsatian . |
| 12 | To ‘ work to ensure a system of legal liability for members which provides a reasonable balance between the interests of auditors , preparers and users of accounts ’ is ranked 14th in a list of 15 detailed objectives , which does not encourage one to believe that it is being given a proper priority . |
| 13 | One long-established form of regulation , which has a well-established pedigree in the economics literature , is correction for externalities which break the link between competition and efficiency . |
| 14 | If the mortgagor is a lessee for years he effects the mortgage by a sub-lease . |
| 15 | For six years , they cheerfully raked in premiums for policies which paid the mortgage if you were made redundant or forced to take time off work because of sickness or accident . |
| 16 | In Britain a party 's first-category candidates somehow find themselves adopted for seats they are all but certain to win , second-category candidates for marginals and third-category candidates for seats they have no hope of winning . |
| 17 | Who Cares Wins John Hind and Stephen Mosco search for MPs who provide a five-star service for electors |
| 18 | ln religious ceremony , ‘ the same manifestations are to be observed in each case : cries , songs , music , violent movements , dances , the search for exciteants which raise the vital level ’ . |
| 19 | Now they were provided with a meal for which the police , at that time paid sixpence , and for the sixpence for breakfast they got a thick round of bread , margarine , a piece of cheese and a mug of tea . |
| 20 | More sinister changelings became channels for daemons which walked the land in those host bodies , twisting and melting their anatomy into devilish monstrosities with scales and horns , claws and feelers — until the possessed bodies finally fell apart , until the vestiges of corrupted mind were sucked away as spirit-meat for those parasites from outside of normality . |
| 21 | We have a term for publications which break the rules ; Victorian Handbills . |
| 22 | We have defined crime as behaviour which breaks the criminal law . |
| 23 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 24 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 25 | With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz . |
| 26 | At the foot of the Himalayas lies Nepal , a sleepy , little-altered country guarding the huge bulk of terrain which yields the highest mountain in the world . |
| 27 | From force of habit he banishes the garlic and adds sliced truffles . |
| 28 | Reviving them , according to the RSNC would involve reinstating traditional methods of management which encourage a wide variety of plants and animals . |
| 29 | In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers . |
| 30 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |