Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychoanalysis finds little credence among laymen for assertions such as these . |
| 2 | In Australia , Canada and the United States during the 1970s inquiries into the political police and internal-security agencies demonstrated clearly that reliance on interviews with chief constables and general assertions of good faith by all concerned would be inadequate . |
| 3 | It should finally be noted that it has also emerged that reliance on markets as a disciplinary device , and in particular on the market for control , is itself far from costless . |
| 4 | In this case the sclerites composing the tergum are known as tergites , those of the sternum as sternites , and those constituting each pleuron as pleurites . |
| 5 | Teenage girls returned from that camp with stories of speaking in tongues and exorcising evil spirits . |
| 6 | It has been possible , relatively simply , to prescribe most qualifying lenders on the face of the Bill , but I hope that the Opposition and others will understand that provision for others , including some institutional and centralised lenders , can be made in the regulations that we shall introduce in due course . |
| 7 | That is why section 15(1) is needed and why it is best to prosecute under that provision in cases where deception is alleged to have been practised . |
| 8 | There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government and more would prefer another general election than an arrangement between either the Conservatives or Labour and one of the minor parties . |
| 9 | The average weight of cows is 400–450kg and the average milk yields , with very little feeding of concentrates , are about 4,000kg . |
| 10 | So it is easy option to borrow and spend that money on services . |
| 11 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 12 | Mr Stevens is said to have little patience with bureaucrats , which endears him to me no end . |
| 13 | However , the two sides made little progress despite indications beforehand that relations were improving . |
| 14 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 15 | In spite of this , after a show at the University of East Anglia last year , a punter came up and said , ‘ That bit about tampons was great , 'cos you really embarrassed some of the girls . ’ |
| 16 | An understanding of ‘ mass ’ in choreographic terms only means how to organise and manipulate the dancers within that mass of objects . |
| 17 | It has little sympathy with intruders . |
| 18 | Popular Athenian sentiment in ancient times showed little sympathy for aliens , deviants or whingers , and it could be rough on women as a species ; and there is a strong male smell of British-is-best among writers newly emerged after 1945 . |
| 19 | In 1938 Sartre , who by his own admission was still mystified to the core by bourgeois idealist presuppositions , would have had little sympathy for theories linking the technical structure of the novel to the historical reality of contemporary French society . |
| 20 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 21 | One menu should be a four course table d'hote with two choices for each course plus vegetables . |
| 22 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 23 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 24 | The treatment is based upon a discovery , made in Oxford , that absorption of fluids from the intestine of the rat is stimulated and improved by adding these sugars to the intestine . |
| 25 | They had done very little swapping of horses , mainly because Nails refused to and Hoomey , having become accustomed to the feel of Bones 's hulk beneath him , was terrified by what he called the ‘ slippery ’ ponies — Midnight and Firelight — and could not make Spot move at all . |
| 26 | You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps ? |
| 27 | There 's that windmill on legs look . |
| 28 | Such , at least , is the suggestion of that play on words . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to run the business myself , I have plans for paying off the bills of each creditor in instalments and then trying to build up the business again . |
| 30 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |