Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 2 | When were you last using it for knitting or for your tapestry ? |
| 3 | Their status has not been gained through public relations hype or through brashness but through their relentless pursuit of quality in all their activities . |
| 4 | There was a thing about Rick Holden on Sunday where he says that most of the players just sit around or go to the pub etc after training and on their days off . |
| 5 | The plan must depend upon the patient 's wish for help and on what is feasible . |
| 6 | We started talking about poetry and about our favourite modern poets . |
| 7 | This level increases depending on our activity and the demand for a surge of blood to be sent where it is needed , for instance to the muscles during exercise or to our brain when under pressure mentally . |
| 8 | ‘ But the powers rebuked her , saying , ‘ This is a site for peace and from it shall peace come . |
| 9 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 10 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 11 | Thus there is today a reiteration of long-established themes , proclaimed more insistently as a consequence of the postwar extension of socialist planning ; opposition to the increasing , more ubiquitous and more centralized power of the state , and to the concomitant growth of public bureaucracy , and on the other side advocacy of decentralization and of what Nisbet ( 1975 , concluding chapter ) has called ‘ a new laissez-faire ’ . |
| 12 | It would not be surprising if the loss of a job for a middle-aged manager who would have difficulty finding other similar employment within his field of expertise and at his age and occupational level was experienced as highly distressing . |
| 13 | Both she and Prince Albert believed wholeheartedly in the value of photography and through their patronage encouraged its early popularity . |
| 14 | The transition from classical elite theory to modern variants of elitism and to its mutant offshoot pluralism is best illustrated by reference to the work of Joseph Schumpeter , whose most important contribution to modern political theory is to provide the template for many theoretical efforts to reconcile the ‘ fundamental fact ’ of elitism with democratic theory . |
| 15 | That there should be a presumption of negligence and for them to show that they 've done nothing wrong . |
| 16 | By the seventeenth century the hood disappeared as an item of mourning and in its place came sashes and scarves . |
| 17 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 18 | He brings with him a wealth of experience and for our part , we assure him of our loyal support ’ . |
| 19 | Without doubt there will be schools who see the guidelines as indicators of direction and in which child-centred learning will take precedence over externally imposed guidelines . |
| 20 | FOR THE LOVE OF ME AND OF US MY GOD DO N'T LISTEN ! |
| 21 | My hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) emphasised how important it was not merely for Members of Parliament but for our constituents to put their case . |
| 22 | Privilege is the exceptional position of the two Houses of Parliament and of their members at common law and by statute . |
| 23 | It gives expression not to a technical aspect of the division of labour but to its social aspect . |
| 24 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 25 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 26 | A traditionalist , he was guided by the natural right of succession and in his view , ‘ the house of Stuart succeeded to the full right of both the houses of York and Lancaster , whose common source is the undisputed right . ’ |
| 27 | Again , the ‘ normal ’ situation in the sciences is not a sure guide , as none of you needs to be reminded , when the brain and mind are the subjects of investigation , given the peculiar features that attach to the notion of consciousness and to its close relations , thought , feeling , privacy and so on . |
| 28 | And these , along with other cortical events relating to other sensory pathways , are the basis of consciousness and of our state of being ‘ worlded ’ . |
| 29 | They differ in their date of onset and in their scale and relative importance over time . |
| 30 | His principal work in philosophy is a detailed refutation of Nicolas Malebranche 's Cartesian theory of perception and of his non-Cartesian , Augustinian , doctrine of ‘ vision in God ’ , the doctrine from which George Berkeley sought to dissociate himself . |