Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Finally , remember to protect oxygenating plants with wide cylinders or domes of netting for a few weeks to prevent any fish from pulling them up before they 're established . |
| 32 | Political conflicts normally took the form of struggles between parties or individuals for influence over the ruler , struggles in which the victor secured the all-important privilege of easy access to him and in which the vanquished were dismissed , disgraced or exiled . |
| 33 | It may be conferred upon Icelanders or foreigners for achievements in the interest of the Icelandic nation . |
| 34 | The prices are collected by postal contact with manufacturers or visits to retailers in a representative list of towns . |
| 35 | Other forms of money were used , such as animals or units of metal by weight . |
| 36 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 37 | He could not identify the Fairy Topic , either , and this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance , a grey mist , in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects , odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom . |
| 38 | If this is unappealing , plant them in bold clumps or drifts in front of shrubs or towards the front of a mixed or herbaceous border . |
| 39 | The remedy is given in different strengths or potencies to groups of healthy volunteers ( the provers ) over a period of time . |
| 40 | Positive deviations occur for two reasons : First of all , attractions or bonding between molecules of components A and B are weak . |
| 41 | The schedule is , of course , not intended to be a means of adding new heads or items of damage to the plaintiff 's claim which have not already been pleaded . |
| 42 | The aim of the financial management initiative is to promote in each department an organization and system in which managers at all levels have : ( a ) a clear view of their objectives and means to assess and , wherever possible , measure outputs or performance in relation to their objectives ; ( b ) well-defined responsibility for making the best use of resources , including a critical scrutiny of output and value for money ; and ( c ) the information ( particularly about costs ) , the training and the access to expert advice that they need to exercise their responsibilities effectively . |
| 43 | a clear view of their objectives and means to assess and , wherever possible , measure outputs or performance in relation to those objectives ; |
| 44 | The technology for exchanging information among individual registries or groups of registries through computerized networks is sufficiently established to allow easy national and international access to the registry or registries in question . |
| 45 | West Mercia 's Chief Constable is to ask Malvern Hills District Council to make an order excluding processions or convoys of travellers within a 4-mile radius of Castlemorton over the May Bank Holiday . |
| 46 | Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client . |
| 47 | Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client . |
| 48 | Word processing can help in producing subject-based bibliographies , abstracts of new books or articles of relevance to teachers , interim reports on the use of the library , worksheets used by the librarian and teachers in information skills programmes and general notices about library facilities . |
| 49 | Option 2 allows the user to have a printed list of all the books or items on loan to a particular year , class , individual or by a particular author . |
| 50 | This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected . |
| 51 | In the case of metalinguistic and comprehension tasks , the disembedded quality of the tasks is often related to the requirement that children think about particular words or phrases in isolation from their linguistic and non-linguistic contexts , and in isolation from their usual communicative functions . |
| 52 | The first paragraph of article 52 extends the scope of the abolition of the restrictions on freedom of establishment to restrictions on the setting up of agencies , branches or subsidiaries by nationals of any member state established in the territory of any member state . |
| 53 | The catalogue costs £1.50 from David Mellor branches or £2 by mail from 66 King Street , Manchester M2 4NP ( 061–834 7023 ) . |
| 54 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 55 | Though they may be artists , craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a trained and deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 56 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 57 | These do require a certain degree of inference , but it is clear that under some conditions such remains can suggest the name of a sponsor , the reason for sponsorship , and the presence of a respected craftsmen or group of craftsmen At Avenches — and probably at Bavay — in France , and at Seriana and Timgad in North Africa , the names of individual craftsmen are attested ( although , as is shown by the inscription from Timgad , even differing ideas of the practice in which the craftsman was involved are apparent ) . |
| 58 | The Act provides protection from suits by clients or employers for breaches of confidentiality . |
| 59 | If , for instance , the national government has been stripped of its ultimate authority , no amount of elections , speeches or appearances on television of politicians will prevent the process from being a twisted perversion of democracy . |
| 60 | If they wished , LEAs were allowed to set up nursery schools or classes for children below school age , and to provide physical and social educational facilities , such as school camps . |