Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is one of the finest hairdressers we have and there is nothing he ca n't do with hair ; whether it 's chignons for Princess Alexandra , wigs for Cher of shoots for vogue . |
| 2 | After years of thinking of Bailey in terms of neutral tones , within the technical restrictions of black and white , it is a shock to see him using slashes of colour : yellow , red , blue , green . |
| 3 | By the end of the eleventh century , the Cluniacs really had begun to reform the consciousness of Europe in institutions like the pilgrimage and the West was ready to embark on its Age of Faith . |
| 4 | There was no difference in the speed of HAPCs between patients with neuropathy and non-constipated patients . |
| 5 | Mayhew described the costermongers living in the coster districts of London with wives to whom they were not legally married although they remained permanently attached , and these are only the most famous of such alliances . |
| 6 | After closure of Woodhead to passengers in 1970 , the route continued to be upgraded with continuous welded rail and some of the class 76 electrics were fitted for multiple working . |
| 7 | The relative openness of Bosnia to influences from Croatia in the north and from Serbia in the south and east facilitated invasion and conquest from Croats , Hungarians , Serbs , Macedonians , Byzantines and Turks . |
| 8 | The first part of his book is an extended essay in counter-theory , intended as a prolegomenon to the second part , which offers a study of Shakespeare in terms of moral and psychological realism . |
| 9 | The sharp carving of the seer 's locks ( fig. 125 ) archaic in tradition , is precisely paralleled in the Apollo ( whose beautiful head is not , as I have carelessly asserted , cut from a separate piece of marble but is one with the body ) ; while the marvellous smoothness of the Cladeus ( fig. 128 ) is found on the west in the heads of Theseus and particularly of the bride , and in heads of Herakles from metopes at both ends . |
| 10 | As Peter Duus has observed , between 1895 and 1910 Japanese leaders contemplated the future of Korea in terms of helping to fulfil Japan 's expanding market in East Asia ; there was less concern with investment in manufacturing or in non-agricultural aspects . |
| 11 | On the other hand , legal strategies have been employed by the peace movement to challenge the authority of state agencies , whether by setting up Nuclear Free Zones , challenging the sale of National Trust land to the Ministry of Defence , or the siting of a shooting range in Berlin ( Guelen , 1985 ) 1 and suing the President of the United States of America for breaches of International Law.2 In other contexts , law has provided a forum in which the rights of individuals in the peace movement and the demands of the state have been adjudicated , for example in deciding on the validity of withholding tax contributions for military spending . |
| 12 | At the other extreme , coins occasionally depict buildings which were never built , such as the Temple of the Clemency of Caesar on coins of 44BC , or the round Temple of Mars Ultor on coins of 19BC . |
| 13 | A precedent lies in the success of securities house Smith New Court in winning £14 million in an action against Citibank over shares in Ferranti bought two months before a fraud . |
| 14 | While serving as agent in Canton for merchants in India and Singapore , and dealing in export and import commerce , he speculated in the opium trade which , although illegal , offered the greatest profits . |
| 15 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 16 | Units attached to the force under the direct control of the supreme military commander , Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rojanini , had been involved in the shooting in May of scores of unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in Bangkok [ see pp. 38894-95 ] . |
| 17 | As the level of violence in Natal between supporters of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Inkatha Freedom Party escalated , State President F. W. de Klerk on Oct. 29 doubled the number of troops deployed in the province . |
| 18 | The main new initiative attempted by Callaghan was the dispatch of the much-respected former Cabinet minister , Cledwyn Hughes , to southern Africa in 1978 , partly to facilitate a continuing rapport with the Carter administration in Washington on relations with the illegal Smith regime . |
| 19 | Sharp Corp says it has shifted production of low-value personal computers from Japan to companies in Taiwan and Korea : Taiwan 's Twinhead International Corp will make notebook computers and while South Korea 's Hyundai Electronic Industry Ltd will make desktops ; annual requirement for both types is 40,000 ; the Nara plant in western Japan will now make mainly high value-added products such as the Newton . |
| 20 | Dorahy , previously No 2 in charge at Aussie outfit Newcastle Knights , is no stranger to England after spells with Leigh , Hull KR and Halifax , where he also had 12 months as coach . |
| 21 | Students of French , German , Hispanic Studies ( Spanish or Portuguese ) , Italian and Scandinavian Studies are required to spend eight months of their third year in residence abroad ( South America may be an alternative to Spain for students of Spanish ) . |
| 22 | But an adjustment on the sale of the Aberdeen site and a further loss on the disposal of another site in Southampton pushed interim results for the six months to end-June into losses of £4.43 million . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Boosey still managed to play a good tune in the six months to June with profits up 10 per cent higher to £1.4 million . |
| 24 | MICHAEL Fallon , defending Darlington for the Tories , has repeated his warning of job losses at Rothmans despite claims of caremongering . |
| 25 | In a surprisingly bold move , Sir Leon is threatening court action by June against governments in ten countries ( only Germany and Belgium escape ) on the grounds that their state energy monopolies distort cross-border competition in contravention of the EC 's founding Treaty of Rome . |
| 26 | There were persistent allegations on UNITA 's radio service in the early part of June of attacks on UNITA officials and supporters . |
| 27 | For example , PCR has been used to confirm the persistent faecal shedding of HIV in children with HIV associated diarrhoea . |
| 28 | The coincidental presence of the Prince of Wales in Broadstairs for a brief private visit to a friend on the same evening converted it into a two-paragraph story . |
| 29 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 30 | Another historian , the very mysterious Malchus or Cleodemus , whose Jewish origin is only probable , presented the sons of Abraham as companions of Hercules who married the daughter of one of them ( Jos . |