Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 2 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 3 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 4 | POLICE should abandon ‘ fashionable management theories ’ which blur traditional relationships between ranks and return to the hierarchical principles of leadership , a senior officer said yesterday . |
| 5 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 6 | Remember that demand , leading to overload and pressure , is a function of the disparity between duties and wishes on the one hand and limitations on the other . |
| 7 | The plaintiff will be the tenant and the landlord the defendant , but if head lessors or mortgagees are likely to be affected they should be added as defendants and served by the lessee , or else notice should be given to them that they may apply to be joined if desired . |
| 8 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 9 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 10 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 11 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 12 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 13 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 14 | The chimpanzee scanned a tray of objects and went to a keyboard out of view of the tray and pressed a symbol corresponding to one of the objects . |
| 15 | Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other . |
| 16 | Taking their terms of analysis from the burgeoning new field of semiotics and arguing against an earlier conception of Hollywood as a lost cause for feminism , Johnston and Cook re-read the films of women directors such as Ida Lupino and Dorothy Arzner . |
| 17 | In conjunction with several American firms , Clive and Stokes has been involved in developing ISA ( International Search Associates ) which aims to find firms who will adhere to a strict set of rules and co-operate in a manner which will enable the client to have the benefit of local know-how , with less restrictive off-limits constraints , but at the same time have an international outlook . |
| 18 | The participants represented a wide variety of views and tended on the whole to disapprove of state-imposed censorship . |
| 19 | ACE genotype ( DD more frequent in cases than in controls ) : Population ( different relative frequency of cases and controls in the 4 populations ) : Heterogeneity of ACE genotype effect across populations : |
| 20 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 21 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 22 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 23 | Mr Launders is pleased with the responsible reaction of shareholders and press to the valuation . |
| 24 | The devaluation was intended to assist a revival of exports and came after the announcement of October 's trade figures , the worst since January 1987 . |
| 25 | Imports fell from December 's record £5.44 billion last month , but at £5.32 billion were still well ahead of exports and led to a visible trade deficit of £1.02 billion , the third-biggest ever . |
| 26 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 27 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 28 | Next morning , Sunday 13 November 1715 , General Carpenter reached Preston with three regiments of dragoons and blocked off the rebels ' only escape route , towards Liverpool . |
| 29 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 30 | The fire had been started in a pile of books and spread through the assembly hall and classrooms . |