Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This marks a change since 1969 , when HP and mail order were the forms of credit most often considered but not used . |
| 2 | The prayer for relief so far as the third defendant is concerned , seeks damages for conspiracy to defraud ; exemplary damages ; an indemnity in respect of any liabilities to B.M.T. under what is described as ‘ the said deed , ’ which presumably means the legal charge or other instrument containing the personal guarantee given by the plaintiffs ; damages for deceit ; and interest . |
| 3 | They must ascertain the child 's wishes with regard to the provision of accommodation so far as this is reasonably practicable and consistent with his welfare ( s20(6) ) . |
| 4 | It must be the change in air down there . ’ |
| 5 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 6 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 7 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 8 | But among the bare rhythm tracks are some truly uplifting tunes that , without stretching the realms of credibility too far , are worthy of comparison to New Order at their most ecstatic . |
| 9 | In a German broadcast it was stated that ‘ the defenders of Hazenbrouck not only delayed the advance , but resisted in a manner truly worthy of the highest traditions of the British Army ’ . |
| 10 | Would you not think a statute prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape distinctly better than a statute prohibiting abortion except to women born in one specified decade each century ? |
| 11 | But if this is so , not only is the case against holism once more put in doubt , the case for supposing that it can ever be established in such an a priori fashion is threatened at the same time . |
| 12 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the shipper enters into the contract of carriage not only on his own behalf , but also as an agent of the consignee . |
| 14 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 15 | Sorry , to , I 'll say that again to fit front and rear lights during production thus cutting down the number of accidents involving cyclists not showing lights during the hours of darkness even farther . |
| 16 | Further , the retardation of maturity not only preserved a better brain/ body-weight ratio but also extended the period of educability and cognitive development which characterizes primate childhoods . |
| 17 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 18 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 19 | In rats infused with caerulein , the interlobular oedema and moderate intralobular oedema were accompanied by perivascular infiltration of leucocytes and the presence of vacuolisation in over 50% of acinar cells . |
| 20 | In Figure 3 , Pooh observes the presence of honey only indirectly : what he observes directly are honey bees . |
| 21 | The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for . |
| 22 | It gave rise to its defence , the " Anti-Makassar " — the strip of linen still occasionally found protecting the headrests of seats in the older first-class carriages of British Rail . |
| 23 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 24 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 25 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 26 | Moreover , this enforced withdrawal from social integration can quickly cause the kind of demoralization so often associated with old age . |
| 27 | A bursary took her to Hamilton Academy , the kind of option not then normally on offer to steelworkers ' daughters . |
| 28 | Simon Kunz manages all the baffling Poor Tom stuff with conviction and , in his scenes with Gloucester , generates the kind of anguish so often missing elsewhere . |
| 29 | The proportion of the former who are not interested in regular working , because they have other interests or other commitments , is relatively high , although it is influenced by the level of unemployment overall as well as in the local labour market . |
| 30 | For instance , most players will admit to taking to tablature in a very big way ; it 's easy to decipher and you can play something very like the part in question almost immediately . |