Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 2 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 3 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 4 | Often what begin as experimental course-work exercises of only medium-to-poor standard become high.quality on.going productions as teachers not only get accustomed to the requirements of curriculum materials planning but recognize through experience the stimulating value of these materials in their work with students . |
| 5 | During emplacement the overlying strata may be significantly uplifted and deformed . |
| 6 | Then we learned the hymns for mass the following morning . |
| 7 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline Operator has indicated that the media item may be faulty . |
| 8 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline system has detected that the media item may be faulty . |
| 9 | During term-time the younger children returned to Park House at weekends while their father , Viscount Althorp stayed with them in Belgravia when he visited London . |
| 10 | But they may be otherwise arranged as for instance the two ways whether end to end in line , at an angle to one another or otherwise may be oppositely inclined from opposite sides of the head bay and terminate at foot each in its own tail bay connected with the lower pond . |
| 11 | For instance the outside hand balances the inside hand directs . |
| 12 | For instance the hauling drums proposed by Messrs. Glover are without doubt the best system , and these can be applied to the original idea which has been adopted by Messrs. Gwynne viz : — 1 Free Balance Rope and 2 Hauling Ropes to each tank . |
| 13 | For instance the 1970s concern remains that public expenditure pay may neither be under control for particular groups of workers nor spent wisely or efficiently for others . |
| 14 | He registered some aspects of it — for instance the separate arrangements for the allied units in the Roman army ( 6.21.4 ) . |
| 15 | It will also be desirable if the inquiry be broadened from the largely financial analysis ( of concern to the CEGB ) to the broader social costs and benefits relevant to the country as a whole , for instance the real ( alternative ) cost of mine labour , the environmental costs of burning coal , and the relative costs of further expansion of energy supply rather than conservation . |
| 16 | In their most liquid markets New York and Los Angeles , for instance the Real Estate Data Inc publication will give you comprehensive details of ownership , values and rents on a street-by-street basis . ’ |
| 17 | JE : Yes , much of the music he wrote for you , for instance the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia , lies very low , particularly the slumber song that precedes the rape . |
| 18 | There are of course interesting possibilities here , for instance the following propositions : |
| 19 | Take for instance the current edition of the British Medical Journal . |
| 20 | mental institution and having to give up his job because once they get that position if they speak out , in any way , for instance the Civil Service you ca n't speak out at all even if you can see something that you know is wrong |
| 21 | Some cakes will be particularly attractive to younger children — for instance the colourful clown , the sheep with its woolly coat made from fluffy frosting , or the large tortoise nibbling a piece of lettuce . |
| 22 | Cases of it are known , for instance the intriguing phenomenon called meiotic drive . |
| 23 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 24 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 25 | For instance the first two letters of this chapter , ‘ It ’ , are at this moment sitting in RAM locations 6446 and 6447 of my computer , which has 65,536 RAM locations altogether . |
| 26 | It needs to be appreciated that pupils with defective vision may respond inappropriately as a result of missing visual detail , for instance the facial expression and body gestures of others . |
| 27 | For the process to proceed smoothly it is necessary to ensure that responsibility for overall policy decisions is assigned to an appropriate individual or group ( for instance the managing director or the board of directors ) . |
| 28 | The spectrum of religious beliefs is best approached initially through compendia : for instance the Concise Encyclopaedia of Living Faiths , edited by R.C. Zaehner , or the more recent Handbook of Living Religions , edited by John R. Hinnells ( which has bibliographies for each religious tradition ) . |
| 29 | Yet it was undeniable that such formulae were available for certain special quintic equations ( for instance the five roots of unc are each radically expressible ; see exercise 4.6.6 ) . |
| 30 | Most of the problems that are arising are not just because of the Trusts but because of other things like for instance the contracting process that is proposed , the t the changing in the financing that is incorporated and of course the general under-funding which there is within the N H S. These are far more important problems in the long term . |