Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOSE who care about such things are at present locked in combat over the issue of whether the greatest number of British skiers go to Austria ( which traditionally enjoys the distinction ) or to France ( which is the flavour of the decade ) . |
| 2 | 1.12 The common point about such cases is of course that expert evidence can be called to dispute the allegations about seat belts , and that must always be borne in mind in these cases . |
| 3 | Possibly the best way of talking through such matters is at local branch meetings . |
| 4 | The achievement of Williams , of his followers and admirers , has been to show that the most secure haven for such doctrines is on the contrary in an ideology that is aggressively egalitarian , and also secular . |
| 5 | Cynics might hastily conclude that the canons of " good committee practice " are neither sufficient nor necessary conditions for meaningful INSET to take place , but a better interpretation in our view is that the potential for such developments was to some extent wasted precisely because the structure , purpose and status of the panel were so confused . |
| 6 | Recipes for such dishes were to be found in the cookery books of the mid-nineteenth century , usually under the rather patronising heading of ‘ Food for the Poor ’ . |
| 7 | The precise nature and requirements for such approvals are beyond the scope of this book but common examples are in the fields of insurance ( see the Insurance Companies Act 1982 and the Financial Services Act 1986 ) , banking ( see the Banking Act 1979 ) , newspapers ( see the Fair Trading Act 1973 ) , telecommunications , building societies , Ministry of Defence contractors and bars , hotels , restaurants and off-licences ( see the Licensing Act 1964 and the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 ) . |
| 8 | Finally , copyright protection of electronic databases was considered , since legal protection for such databases is of critical importance for the continued growth of this market . |
| 9 | The use of some drugs is against the law . |
| 10 | It is difficult to assess the performance of the DUP and Vanguard because there was considerable overlap between the two groups and the affiliation of some candidates was in doubt . |
| 11 | The birch existed , particularly in the older public and grammar schools , nor was it absent from some of the newer schools , if the denunciations of some publicists are to be believed . |
| 12 | Whilst a detailed discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of such classifications is beyond the scope of this book , their widespread use shows that : * they give a generally reliable picture of the relationship between occupation and income ; * they do indicate differences in purchase and consumption patterns , although the total disposable income as between any two categories may be similar ( especially where husband and wife are both working ) ; * those categories are stable and enduring . |
| 13 | However , the wording of such covenants is by no means simple . |
| 14 | It was enacted that offenders were to be brought before a member of the King 's Council or a Justice of the Peace for examination ; hunting in disguise or by night , and wilful concealment of such offences were to be punished as felonies — that is , by death and forfeiture of property . |
| 15 | There is no mention on the regulation of prices or of a method of arbitration in the event of dispute , suggesting that commerce was regulated by custom or the social mores of gift-giving , and had not reached a sufficiently organised scale for legal controls to be necessary ; the earliest hint of such controls is to be found in King Ine 's laws , in which traders were to make their transactions before witnesses or the king 's reeve . |
| 16 | The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations . |
| 17 | The problems of calculating the total energies of such ions are by no means trivial , and important advances in techniques of calculation have been made in the process of developing satisfactory methods . |
| 18 | Although the conclusions of such studies are in principle limited to the memories of the two individuals who conducted them ( Linton 1975 , 1978 , 1982 , 1986 , and Wagenaar , 1986 ) , both researchers were potentially interested in emotion as a factor in memory and the studies provide an enormous database of everyday events for which memory has been systematically tested . |
| 19 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 20 | One obvious example of such changes is in the teaching of languages . |
| 21 | The commitment of such teachers is to the emotional and personal well-being of the pupils , and they may be openly critical of the content-based , exam-passing philosophy of more traditional colleagues . |
| 22 | The usual fate of such passengers is to be carried in the guard 's van , and although there are other enlightened railways , which make provision for their wheelchair passengers to travel with dignity , these are also private railways , run by enthusiasts . |
| 23 | The truth of such statements is to be established by careful observation . |
| 24 | The managers of such funds are on the stump , spreading the message that their day has come at last . |
| 25 | It is suggested that the bulk of such borrowings are by staff who have intrinsic interests in Scottish geology , rather than by students working in related areas . |
| 26 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 27 | A detailed discussion of such clauses is beyond the scope of this chapter , but it should be said that the case law shows that use of such clauses to provide security in the event of failure to pay the purchase price is surrounded with many pitfalls . |
| 28 | A striking use of such clauses is in the Local Government Finance Act 1987 . |
| 29 | Facial gesture and general demeanour could easily signal the force with which the utterance of such nouns was to be taken . |
| 30 | A detailed analysis of such techniques is beyond the scope of this book , and so the coverage given to them will be generally limited to their marketing applications . |