Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , at first glance , and for reasons located primarily in the International movement , 1927 would not appear to be an opportune moment for Nizan to join the party . |
| 2 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 3 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 4 | The British trade is dismayed that the Open Individual Export Licence ( OIEL ) , which allowed Sotheby 's and Christie 's to issue licences for objects imported in to the UK within the last fifty years without having to go through the DNH , does not apply to objects controlled under the EC Regulation . |
| 5 | Over time she has retained her ideological commitment , and the shortcomings as well as the successes of her government record are invoked by her as reasons to press on with the original strategy . |
| 6 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 7 | Most accidents happen as kids run out in the road without looking , alright . |
| 8 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 9 | My helpers borrowed an old flatbed truck from a farmer , along with two dozen squared bales of hay which they arranged as steps leading up to the truck . |
| 10 | The present ski development is unsafe for walkers to walk through towards the carriers as the skiers do not give way to each other let alone walkers . |
| 11 | ( ’ Like' for retributivists meaning alike in the intuitively appealing sense of ‘ similarly deserving ’ . ) |
| 12 | It is not necessary for readers to agree completely with the ideology of the approach to arrive at some of the same conclusions about soil erosion as found here . |
| 13 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 14 | It was , he said , a ‘ good time for us as Conservatives to think afresh about the direction of British politics ; about where we have come from , what we are doing , and where the future is taking our nation and our party . ’ |
| 15 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 16 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 17 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 18 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 19 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 20 | Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue . |
| 21 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 22 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 23 | The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn . |
| 24 | In order for an exchange to become a recognised investment exchange , it must demonstrate to the SIB that , inter alia : ( a ) it has financial resources sufficient for the proper performance of its functions ; ( b ) that it has rules and practices which ensure that business conducted by means of its facilities is conducted in an orderly manner , affording proper protection to investors ; ( c ) it limits dealings on the exchange to investments in which there is a proper market ; ( d ) where relevant , issuers of investments dealt in on the exchange are required to comply with such obligations as will , so far as possible , afford to persons dealing in the investments proper information for determining their current value ; ( e ) it has its own arrangements for ensuring performance of transactions effected on the exchange or ensures their performance by means of services provided under clearing arrangements made by it with a recognised clearing house ; ( f ) it has ( or secures the provision on its behalf of ) satisfactory arrangements for recording the transaction effected on the exchange ; ( g ) it has adequate arrangements and resources for the effective monitoring and enforcement of compliance with its rules and any clearing arrangements made by it ; ( h ) it has effective arrangements for the investigation of complaints in respect of business transacted by means of its facilities ; and ( i ) it is able and willing to promote and maintain high standards of integrity and fair dealing in the carrying on of investment business and to co-operate by the sharing of information and otherwise with regulators . |
| 25 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 26 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 27 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 28 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 29 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 30 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |