Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HUNDREDS of Tibetans have been imprisoned since late 1987 for taking part in demonstrations in favour of Tibetan independence from China or for their peaceful expression of dissent from Government policies in Tibet . |
| 2 | Simplicity There is no need for countries to decide what constitutes the appropriate exchange rate or for their general agreement on whether deficit or surplus countries are responsible for the adjustment burden . |
| 3 | Feeling that little was to be gained by personal protest either to the BBC or through their local MP to Parliament , they decided that the best approach was to issue a Manifesto . |
| 4 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 5 | However , under section 15 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 it is lawful for a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near his own place of work ‘ for the purpose only of peacefully obtaining or communicating information , or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working . ’ |
| 6 | Once accepted as setting up a trust , this no doubt gives the beneficiary , who is also the addressee , an action against the heir , or against whatever other beneficiary of the estate is in possession of the object in question . |
| 7 | They were the faces of people concerned predominantly either with what people thought about their behaviour , property , social standing , or with their own judgment of other people 's behaviour , property , social standing . |
| 8 | You share your identity with your mates at work or with your own age at school , not with your elder brother . |
| 9 | It is not known whether Acca 's expulsion was connected with the temporary deposition of Ceolwulf or with his subsequent restoration in the same year , or whether it was a totally unrelated crisis . |
| 10 | With gloss and shine being the buzz words for hair ‘ 92 , Salon Selectives have introduced a new spray-in , Leave-In Conditioner — Type L. Loaded with vitamins and natural ingredients , this ultralight spray can be used instead of or alongside your normal conditioner for a silky smooth shine . |
| 11 | So the media of prose and verse ‘ pivot ’ too , shifting in value or significance as a character moves within the society of the play , or within its internal hierarchy of language and values . |
| 12 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 13 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 14 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |
| 15 | The degree to which the ESSE/L Project can be seen to be radical either as an initiative , or in its actual impact in schools , depends on how close it comes to one or other of these doctrines . |
| 16 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 17 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 18 | Well , I suggest that Toby arranges to be on the trip and that you go with him , either as his close friend or in your professional capacity as a caddie , or a bit of both . ’ |
| 19 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 20 | You may also like to obtain health leaflets SA40 and SA41 from your ABTA Travel Agent or from your local Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 21 | Sovereignty is the , we 'll turn to it later , we 'll look at sovereignty again , but linked to sovereignty is the idea that you can make legislation , you can pass laws and then you can say these laws are going to be carried out , implemented by courts followed by sanctions though very little law is related to foreign policy because the British government or the Russian government or the United States government ca n't make laws which apply worldwide or outside its own area of claimed sovereignty so there is a difference of the environment in which foreign policy takes place . |
| 22 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 23 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 24 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 25 | But Peach did n't go to Bale 's or to his former home in Hilderbridge . |
| 26 | Was the rapid expansion of the search space due to the nature of speech itself , or to our limited understanding of speech processing ? |
| 27 | Some families , across the Border or on their own side of it , pursued deadly feuds which could be settled only by the extermination of an entire family or , grudgingly and with much pressure from the Wardens , a compensatory payment in money or goods . |
| 28 | In other studies the subjects have been led unwittingly to the experimenter or by their own knowledge of the expected results . |
| 29 | So there is no doubt about the ability of the Japanese to pay for this information and knowledge , nor about their strong motivation for acquiring it . |
| 30 | The summons of wider groups , because matters affecting the common good were at stake , in no way diluted Innocent 's conceptions of the role of the clergy and of the laity , of bishops and of lower clergy , of kings and of lesser laymen , nor of his own position in leading the Ecclesia or " congregation of the faithful " . |