Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may also be good reason for deleting reference to the contemplation of proceedings under ss 146 or 147 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , as the costs recoverable under such a provision may not be easy for the tenant to assess and counter . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she hopes people will see what they want to , ’ Benjamin replied , ‘ any change detected being dismissed as fanciful or due to the work of the embalmers . ’ |
| 3 | One commonly held idea is that the healing response is a placebo effect , simply the power of suggestion , or due to the charisma of an individual healer . |
| 4 | Externalisation or blaming — admitting that there are problems but saying that the causes are due to pressures at work or unemployment or due to social , financial or other stresses or due to doctors or " pushers " or due to the inadequacy of the police , customs officials or the Government . |
| 5 | Even for open questions , there will perhaps be loss of information if the interviewer does not use a tape recorder or due to the crudeness of coding required or the need to pool categories during analysis . |
| 6 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 7 | ( x ) To do all such other things as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them . |
| 8 | ( x ) To do all such other things as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them . |
| 9 | There was nothing remotely sensible or well-balanced about the turmoil of emotions his touch was arousing , Luce thought distractedly . |
| 10 | In one particular case we find progressive assimilation of manner , when a word-initial follows a plosive or nasal at the end of a preceding word : it is very common to find that the C i becomes identical in manner to the C f but with dental place of articulation . |
| 11 | The dialectic of apparent antitheses has been suppressed in favour of a one-dimensional model of what design is ; depending on the format of precise models one of the antitheses has been subsumed or repressed under the aegis of the other . |
| 12 | The aim was to make use of all available resources whether labelled public or private for the benefit of the patient who wanted treatment . |
| 13 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 14 | In this way they assured that those among us who were anally lax or maladroit in the use of the hard , crunchy loo paper we used , would take care not to dirty their underpants . |
| 15 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 16 | Peter Turner , Head of UK sales , Epson ( UK ) Limited : Epson endeavours to use non-proprietary SIMMS where possible in the design of all their PCs . |
| 17 | They differ in whether they exist incorporated into the chromosomes or free in the cytoplasm of the cells they inhabit , and in how they pass from one cell to another . |
| 18 | These findings suggest that , at the time of the act , helping agencies were regarded as irrelevant to what the person wanted to achieve , or unhelpful on the basis of previous experience of them . |
| 19 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 20 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 21 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 22 | The three US service manuals are currently in process of being updated , and it will be interesting to see whether either they , or the new UK tri-service manual which is now in an advanced state of preparation , say anything more specific about possible limits of one kind or another to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |
| 24 | Although the CNAA acquired this new set of privileged partners , it also retained those institutions which shared to one extent or another in the provision of higher education . |
| 25 | Given that this was a risk-free hedge we can make a check on the process by comparing the outcomes from states 1 or 2 with the result of investing the initial capital at the risk-free rate of return : . |
| 26 | The 100 consecutive patients were all Tanner stage 1 or 2 at the time of diagnosis . |
| 27 | It is highly unlikely that any reader of this sentence will interpret rare in the sense of ‘ undercooked ’ ( as in a rare steak ) , or steep in the sense of ‘ unjustifiably high ’ ( as in steep charges ) , or bank in the sense of ‘ financial institution ’ , or burn in the sense of ‘ injury caused by fire ’ , or run in the sense of ‘ progress by advancing each foot alternately never having both feet on the ground simultaneously ’ , etc . |
| 28 | Tallis argues that people talk of ‘ signifieds ’ , when they should say ‘ referents ’ ; there is nothing new or unfamiliar in the idea of verbal signs having multiple or even clashing references , and they have long been exploited by poets and punsters , as Tallis does in the title of his book . |
| 29 | 4.3.3 The other Non-academic Parties agree to provide to the Lead Organization , or direct to the Secretary of State , as may be most convenient a copy of their respective latest audited accounts , unless previously provided , together with such other financial and technical information as the Secretary of State may from time to time properly require in relation to the procedures governing claims for payment . |
| 30 | Managers should be responsible for regularly agreeing training and development needs with each employee in the context of business objectives , setting targets and standards linked , where appropriate to the achievement of National Vocational Qualifications ( or relevant units ) and , in Scotland , Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |