Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of the procedural knowledge underlying the task only becomes clear in unusual circumstances , where for example the performance of a procedure is interrupted or the precise requirements are changed , e.g. when driving a new vehicle with different control characteristics .
2 Liveries have of course proliferated ; not since pre-1923 days have so many different colour schemes been seen , the only snag being that often two or more liveries are included in the same train where for example the PTE 's dedicated stock gets diverted .
3 The planned defensive systems of King Alfred or of Henry the Fowler were primarily concerned to provide refuges for folk whose land was being pillaged ; they also provided defence in depth , but it was a secondary consideration .
4 So , whilst I would n't want to over estimate or under estimate the problem , I think we 've got to keep a balance in that .
5 These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded .
6 From the lawn was a spacious view across the valley of the Teme to Stowe Hill , where in summer the heather up to the skyline showed purple above hanging oak woods .
7 They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it .
8 The British liked to think their system was different from the others , but it is not easy , in examining the literature , to discover exactly where in practice the difference lay .
9 A service oriented hotel supplier has invested a lot of time making files of important companies such as banks , credit card companies , large stores , tobacco companies , soap and perfume shops , beverage companies , newspapers , discotheques , restaurants , and so forth , which can sponsor in part or in total the cost of purchasing new keycards .
10 Whether this was a continuation of the regression story or in Part the creation of a rain-shadow area behind the new mountains , it is difficult to deduce .
11 At the hearing , the court may appoint ( N 239 ) the person proposed , any other person willing to act , or in default the district judge ( Ord 10 , rr 6 , 8(2) ) .
12 Bones in pellets are protected for some time ( see discussions on this in the sections on trampling and weathering , above ) , but in wet conditions or in water the pellets disintegrate and the bones they contain are dispersed ( Korth , 1979 ) .
13 The plate can then be reworked in these areas or in fact the whole can be taken a stage further by laying another ground of resin and immersing in the acid again .
14 It is possible that , part way through E , the printer decided to stop , move on to F , G and H , which appeared less problematical ( G then inherited the E running titles sooner than expected ) , and await clarification from the theatre or from Tonson the publisher .
15 It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century .
16 With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend .
17 The first loan was often sought to escape a pauper funeral , to keep the children off the school meals list , to pay for boots , or to tide the family over the illness of the breadwinner .
18 In such cases an agreement to limit the range or to reword the criteria may be essential .
19 Thus , containerized loading commences , in many instances , not at dockside or on board the vessel but at inland points .
20 I have recreated the thousand-year historic unity of the German living-space , and I have attempted to do all this without spilling blood and without inflicting on my people or on others the suffering of war .
21 However , the seasonal loss was not great enough to cause an ‘ ozone hole ’ of the sort above the Antarctic , where at times the layer has reached a wafer-thin 10 per cent of normal this winter .
22 It is proposed , despite the fact that it is the unorthodox view of insider dealing which is singled out for special attention , to review the policy arguments for and against the use of inside information , even where at times the debate seems more applicable to the traditional view of insider dealing .
23 The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees .
24 The interplay of these factors was complex ; the two areas where the most advanced urban institutions were found were Flanders , where comital control was tight , and Gothia , where by contrast the count of Toulouse 's authority within the great cities was almost negligible , and where the clashes between vicecomital and episcopal powers facilitated independence .
25 Also two tours from the top take you down offpiste to the road , where by arrangement the hotel bus will pick you up .
26 The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
27 Sweeping the board by book or by rook The Polgar sisters , who this weekend are competing at the Barbican , are the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of chess .
28 I appreciate that for justices the obligation to provide a reasoned judgment at the conclusion of an application under the Children Act 1989 is one that no doubt presents all sorts of practical difficulties , but inevitably the period during which they reserve should be kept to the minimum in accordance with the whole philosophy of the Act which seeks to abridge time for procedural steps .
29 In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation .
30 However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) .
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