Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ . |
| 2 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 3 | She said that it was a time for prayer and especially for prayers of protection against evil of any kind and , sending for her holy book , quoted me the following passage : |
| 4 | These usually first appeared about Easter and then were baked throughout the year at other holiday times . |
| 5 | The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position . |
| 6 | Replacing the ad hoc Cabinet Mainland Affairs Task Force , the council was composed of the government departmental heads , with Vice-Premier Shih Chi-yang as chairman and up to three vice-chairmen . |
| 7 | Very low residence time for hydrogen carbonate biologically active , and an intermediate time for things like sodium and potassium which are common in crustal rock and are also commonly being deposited through sedimentation and so on . |
| 8 | And its feminist interests in social relations link it with disciplines like sociology and history , making it more interdisciplinary than most psychology , maintaining its hopes for change and even a complete paradigm shift in the discipline ( e.g. Parlee 1979 , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Individual approaches recognize either the school or the classroom as the significant unit for change and ideally take both into account , for change in one is unlikely to happen without change in the other ( Easen , 1985 ; Slater , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 11 | Banks argued against the changes but acknowleged the need for change and so supported the Cheque Act . |
| 12 | Secondly , and perhaps inevitably arising out of the first situation , the young adult who joins the sub-culture of deafness and uses sign language has , in the community 's eyes , given up the search for sameness and therefore society 's help comes in a ‘ care for the disabled ’ package . |
| 13 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 14 | Not only is there a great depth to the pressure for change , but it also exists on an enormously wide number of fronts — from the National Curriculum through assessment and on to open enrolment and the local management of schools and ( for some ) beyond that to grant maintained status or other ‘ exotics ’ . |
| 15 | that the riots were ‘ a lust for blood ’ , an ‘ orgy of thieving ’ , ‘ a cry for loot and not a cry for help ’ ; |
| 16 | How are we free unless we fight for freedom and like as not break one or more of the Commandments ? ’ |
| 17 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 18 | They decided to sue the farm for negligence and today they won an historic test case at the County Court in Swindon . |
| 19 | Suppose , for example , it claims to exclude all the following liabilities of the seller : for misrepresentation , for negligence and also for breach of the terms implied by sections 12 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 20 | The downside is that , unlike financial controllers , directors can , technically speaking , be held liable for negligence and consequently sued . |
| 21 | If any part does constitute such a gain , then that part is taxed as income and not capital . |
| 22 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 23 | During the day , and will take samples from the ship 's hold to check for damage and also check the quantity of dust and husk in the load . |
| 24 | It succeeds , too , as a condemnation of his messianic presentation which inspired in those , having little cause for hope and much for despair , an all-too-ready belief in an easily-obtained and immediate millennium . |
| 25 | Where we have a different point of view is the point of view that says that a general education which will train the mind erm and expand capacity for judgement and so on , erm is perhaps more important than an exact knowledge of erm some particular political science theory . |
| 26 | Its plural , " working classes " , allows for differentiation and even hierarchy among the lower orders but still reflects nineteenth- rather than eighteenth-century usage . |
| 27 | But development takes place in other spheres than that of intelligence alone : in emotional response , for instance and especially in the basic factors of relationship with others . |
| 28 | And then it 'll come up , you know , I 'll put in w er one O two is the headlines for Ceefax for instance and then the stories will be from one O three to about one one five or something like that you see . |
| 29 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 30 | In June 1940 , Britain was digging in , expecting a grim struggle for existence and feverishly improvising every weapon of defence against the possible invader . |