Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century .
2 The intrusion of the bureaucratic considerations is likely to lead to solutions which differ in many cases from those an individual should have adopted if left to himself .
3 Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria :
4 The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 .
5 Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time .
6 Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said .
7 But in the specialized sense it covers a range of disciplines which apply to most types of literature , and it has made a very positive contribution to the understanding of the Bible .
8 It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it .
9 Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims .
10 Yet , these three countries not only have different systems of legal decision making , with Children 's Hearings in Scotland , children 's judges in France and juvenile courts in England , but the philosophies and policies which lie behind these institutions and the nature of the decisions they arrive at are also very different .
11 These will give the effect of the dense reeds which grow in many areas of East Asia .
12 The letter suggests the payments were for MCC shares transferred to Liechtenstein trusts called stiftungs , and adds : ‘ It appears that companies of which I am joint administrator have substantial claims against the stiftungs and any other entities which benefited from these payments . ’
13 So , argues Parkin , this apparent consensus is , in fact , an expression of the particular system of dominant values which operates in such societies .
14 The rules which apply to such cases and can be derived from the cases are summed up in Chitty on Contracts as follows : ( 1 ) If the person receiving the document did not know that there was writing or printing on it , he is not bound .
15 The rules which apply to such flights in various European countries differ quite widely .
16 GPs will be encouraged to provide more well-women clinics which deal with many issues to do with women 's health .
17 They gathered together in groups which buzzed like many nests of bees as word passed from one group to the next .
18 Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs .
19 Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end .
20 The Jacobite unrest in Bristol , Norwich and London was symptomatic of the bitter political tensions which existed in these communities between Tories and High Church Anglicans on the one hand and Whigs and Nonconformists on the other .
21 One of our aims is to highlight the inevitable tensions which arise in all societies when a community development approach is adopted in health care matters .
22 The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers .
23 There are private companies who specialize in these services and who , incidentally , also have dedicated people working for them .
24 The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent .
25 The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms .
26 Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court .
27 These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity .
28 Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world .
29 Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods .
30 However , the rise in pensions relative to incomes which occurred in most countries also increased the cost of not working — for the farsighted , at least — since pensions were generally linked to contributions from pay .
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