Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 32 | The Kuwaiti government used its funds to provide substantial assistance to the build-up of anti-Iraqi forces in the Gulf and to provide funding for countries adversely affected by the imposition of international sanctions against Iraq . |
| 33 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 34 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 35 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 36 | Since our experience of institutions is frequently other than the idealistic way they strive to represent themselves , the solidity of values apparently inherited from the past are called into question . |
| 37 | The views are magnificent : of extensive sheets of water backed by imposing heights , Cul Beag and Cul Mor filling the eastern sky and the sprawling mass of Ben More Coigach across a deep trench to the south , every prospect enhanced by the spectacular array of pinnacles in the foreground , subjects for a score of camera studies . |
| 38 | There is a lovely panorama of the bay as the road climbs beyond , the curve of the golden sands , the open expanse of sea and the massive bulk of Ben More Coigach in the background combining in a picture of surpassing beauty . |
| 39 | Letters and phone-calls of support also came from every corner of Britain . |
| 40 | The direction of change now depends on the considerations discussed earlier , except that any change in ( ) feeds back to . |
| 41 | Said a spokesman : ‘ There is a positive wind of change now blowing through the club . ’ |
| 42 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 43 | The range of products previously tried on the current leg ulcer demonstrated not only the unsuitability of one product through every stage of healing , but also the frustration experienced by some nurses desperate to find the right product for a particular patient . |
| 44 | Here 's the chance to be creative on fabric and knitwear with an exciting new range of products recently introduced into the UK by the yarn company F W Bramwell & Co Ltd . |
| 45 | The stationary and mobile phases are both liquids , which prevents overloading and reduces the loss due to absorption and denaturation of molecules commonly incurred by the solid phase technique . |
| 46 | Modification of tRNAs normally occur in the nucleus on pre-tRNAs that are trimmed before passage out to the cytoplasm ( 11 ) . |
| 47 | Similarly , studies of the international transfer of technology by multinational firms find that transfer costs ( and times ) vary inversely with the amount of host country R&D , its manufacturing experience , and with the number of projects already transferred to the host country ( see Mansfield et al. , 1982 , and Teece , 1977 ) . |
| 48 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 49 | Fujimori 's change of heart reportedly came after a visit to Peru on May 16 by the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Héctor Gros Espiell , as an OAS emissary . |
| 50 | We will deal only with self-excited instabilities , but predictions of chaos also exist for the more complex case where the injected signal , or the pumping rate , are modulated . |
| 51 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 52 | Nevertheless , the modern law of contracts tenaciously clings to the liberal ideal of individual autonomy . |
| 53 | Because deep meditation can be likened in many ways to the altered state of hypnosis , and because those who have a profound interest in such forms of meditation are likely to be on a deliberate spiritual voyage of discovery , they may be able to pass more easily through those barriers of protection normally erected by the subconscious mind . |
| 54 | KEERSPLOSH ! — into the water , right on top of a line of mallards peacefully cruising along the canal . |
| 55 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 56 | The level of bequests then depends on the nature of preferences ; for example , whether bequests are a ‘ luxury ’ good ( Atkinson , 1971 ) . |
| 57 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |
| 58 | The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known . |
| 59 | In any case nobody wanted to reverse the process ; tobacco had been a pleasant commercial curtain-raiser but by the second half of the seventeenth century people in England were convinced that the real attraction of possessions overseas lay in the sugar islands . |
| 60 | And I returned to the States in considerable agitation : if national white media continued their de facto denial of his campaign , Jackson might really lose the game on grounds of fair-play relentlessly circumvented for the purpose of defeating him . |