Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument was closely related to that of Hilaire Belloc in his book The Servile State , which criticised the liberal welfare reforms of the period 190–14 for sapping the independence of workers . |
| 2 | The procedure for ascertaining the opinion of members of the Commons and of Peers and of prominent people in the Party Organization was then conducted by persons who were later to be christened ‘ the Magic Circle ’ . |
| 3 | It is , therefore , particularly gratifying to be able to report that , in response to the case for maintaining the level of purchases made by the Library with the support of other Scottish research libraries , and users , both local and remote , Government agreed in December 1989 to restore substantially the level of the Library 's Purchase Grant in 1990–91 by allocating an additional £200,000 for purchases for the Library 's collections . |
| 4 | The Bank is responsible for the administration of sales of both types of instrument and , in the case of bonds , for maintaining the register of holders . |
| 5 | I move that the petition to be presented from persons about opposing the making of byelaws and supporting of a poop scoop scheme be received . |
| 6 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 7 | The penalties , though , were pressures of time and deadlines , coupled with trepidation about handling the area of Effects which was so totally outside Design 's normal field of endeavour . |
| 8 | ‘ the basal reason for binding the creditor with equities arising from the conduct of the husband is that in substance , if not technically , the wife is a volunteer conferring an important advantage upon her husband who in virtue of his position has an opportunity of abusing the confidence she may be expected to place in him and the creditor relies upon the person in that position to obtain her agreement to become his surety . |
| 9 | It was even more difficult to ask serious questions about the system for radiographing the integrity of welds , which the engineers were keen to explain , when what really mattered was whether this monster could be stopped from crossing the Channel . |
| 10 | It 's not worth keeping the treasure of lemons |
| 11 | The UK Labour Party has issued a five-point plan for tackling the growth of cases of asthma . |
| 12 | These are useful for keeping the ground around shrubs and fruit trees weed-free ( but check the label to make sure the product is suitable for use with the plants you are growing ) . |
| 13 | Both founders came from publishing backgrounds ( she from Collins and he from Michael Bond 's Paddington & Company ) , and they set out to develop new market niches , through licensing book related characters and properties — such as Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit , Michael Bond 's Paddington Bear and Jill Barklem 's Brambly Hedge — and through widening the merchandise beyond toys , particularly into the gift trade . |
| 14 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 15 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 16 | The scale of this discrepancy between theory and practice may ironically itself become important evidence for uncovering the nature of objects in the modern world . |
| 17 | European Community environment ministers have agreed to bring forward by one year , to January 1995 , the date for eliminating the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) and carbon tetrachloride . |
| 18 | In the Grammar Laski , before turning his attention to the issue of sovereignty , commenced his analysis , significantly , with an examination of the purpose of social organization and suggested that , when viewed purposively , the State ‘ becomes an organisation for enabling the mass of men to realise social good on the largest possible scale ’ . |
| 19 | A clear problem is the kind of model that is most suitable for representing the architecture of documents and multimedia data and for providing usable query languages . |
| 20 | Clearly we would have to have a separate system for representing the presence of objects and their features that was not dependent on knowing their identity . |
| 21 | Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space . |
| 22 | He was obviously curious to see Stephen 's relative , and she mentally chided herself for revealing the state of things between Stephen and his half-brother . |
| 23 | However , a historical focus is appropriate for understanding the meaning of attitudes , for the rhetorical context of attitudes is also a historical context . |
| 24 | Then Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalizing the strain on each inidividual rope by means of connected Hydraulic Rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggestion for actuating the lift up gates by means of Hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . |
| 25 | They have now won only one in 10 games after leading the division with games in hand in February . |
| 26 | After scooping the majority of prizes at the event the 24-man-troupe found themselves being booked for other carnivals which led to a whole summer 's bookings in 1990 . |
| 27 | The life-generating experiment has now , after varying the mix of gases , been repeated many times . |
| 28 | The initial decision of the complainant was not without importance , for if , after hearing the evidence of witnesses , the justice of the peace decided that the case was not serious enough to be sent to a superior court , he could not then and there try it as a police court case . |
| 29 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
| 30 | Setting off around the corner after negotiating the flake on Valkyrie . |