Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 2 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 3 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 4 | Fran Bennett 's article on ‘ The State , Welfare and Women 's Dependence ’ ( Bennett , 1983 ) gives an excellent account of the different strands within the contemporary women 's movement and their views about the appropriate source of an income for women . |
| 5 | Conventionalism does not deny that many lawyers hold rival views about the best interpretation of the practice they share . |
| 6 | And was he even the same guy as the one with markedly dodgy views about the international situation in the Far East ? |
| 7 | Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures . |
| 8 | Allied to this are views about the limited efficacy of law . |
| 9 | He became a Congregational minister , but his views about God 's inclusive care for the ‘ ’ heathen ’ and his views about the divine revelation in the Bible , brought him into conflict with the narrow-mindedness of some of his congregation , and in 1893 he left the ministry to devote himself to writing . |
| 10 | Gentlemen , you all know Miss Jarman 's views about the unfortunate voyage of the Princess . |
| 11 | They find themselves operating between two broad publics or constituencies with competing views about the proper realm of government in regulating the economy . |
| 12 | By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications . |
| 13 | Views about the exact composition of virtue , male and female , have changed over time , and they may vary , too , with differing social and geographical contexts , but the underlying theme is constant : the theme , that is , of difference . |
| 14 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 15 | The government can make its value judgements about distribution or equality and can pursue its views about the desirable degree of vertical equity without impairing the efficient functioning of a free market economy . |
| 16 | A major theory under the economic heading argues that the material forces that produced fascism in other countries ( whatever one 's views about the social base of such movements ) were insufficiently rigorous to operate in Great Britain , even though the 1930s brought severe hardship in certain areas . |
| 17 | He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan . |
| 18 | By mid-1966 unemployment in Germany exceeded vacancies for the first time since 1959 . |
| 19 | Perhaps recognising the risk , Malaysia has used tariffs only as a temporary form of protection for the first-comer investor in certain sectors , like television sets . |
| 20 | In all three parts " reasonable " means providing no more than relevant and necessary protection for the legitimate interest of the covenantee . |
| 21 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 22 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that broad agreement had been reached on protection for the German minority in Poland " in accordance with international standards " . |
| 23 | Being a Member of Parliament during the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century could be a hazardous occupation . |
| 24 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |
| 25 | A further cause for concern was Recommendation 6 , with its proposal to base grant for the coming year to each Responsible Body not only on the standards of its own work but also on the needs of the area it served and on the provision made by others . |
| 26 | By the time ‘ taking stock ’ is occurring in preparation for the annual report to parents , priorities are being considered for next year 's Plan . |
| 27 | Of course , not all their games have this aspect of preparation for the serious business of life . |
| 28 | He has been thrifty and pored over contracts , although there is no preparation for the mental upset of a group folding . |
| 29 | Peasant revolution could achieve the immediate ‘ socialization ’ of the land and abolition of private ownership in preparation for the ultimate transition to socialist production . |
| 30 | While accepting that in the cities events would unfold much as Marx had envisaged , with a phase of bourgeois rule culminating in proletarian revolution , they insisted that in the countryside peasant revolution could achieve the immediate ‘ socialization ’ of the land and abolition of private ownership in preparation for the ultimate transition to socialist production . |