Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The use of water based chemicals , sanitisers or detergents leads to softening and expansion of the wood and the result is deep premature cracking .
2 The point , however , is not whether exploitation of women or men occurs in TNC factories , for they are capitalist institutions predicated on the exploitation of all the factors of production .
3 This provides a mechanism that buffers skews in adult sex ratio and which is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle and allied mechanisms for the primary sex ratio .
4 About 85 per cent of the 1.2 Mt of chlorine that Chlor-Chemicals produces in Europe each year is used by ICI itself and by businesses in which ICI has an interest .
5 That is , it must be considered as historically transcendent in the sense of being unaffected by the same , historical , process that Lukács describes for class consciousness .
6 More information on continuing education programmes organised by the HVA and other professional advice and activities appears in chapter 4 .
7 I now understand that Derbyshire is planning to siphon off £5.5 million of capital spending to pay for extra redundancy and personnel costs at county hall .
8 Much of the impetus for improving conditions within the prison and for creating a regime that is built upon mutual respect between staff and prisoners depends upon initiatives taken by prison staff .
9 The Soviet emphasis on simple materials and technologies ensures in contrast long production lines , low unit costs , and an ability to turn spare capacity over to military production with a minimum of retraining and re-tooling .
10 Interest payable in 1992 and 1991 in respect of bank loans and overdrafts relates to amounts which are wholly repayable within five years , with the exception of £29 million [ 1991 £14 million ] which relates to borrowings of £303 million at 31 December 1992 [ 1991 £137 million ] repayable after five years .
11 the westgate with part of the wall as far as particular upright stone in the said wall , between the said gates and the standing stile and steps belongs to Chew Stoke and is repaired by the parishioners thereof ; the other part home to the poor house is repaired by the parish of Chew Magna ; the east side is repaired and half of the wall and stile by the parish of Stowey ; the other by the parish of Norton …
12 The ESRC funded a small study of several component parts : 7-day intake frequency records food preference questionnaires questionnaires on health perceptions participant observation by a social anthropologist discussion with elderly inhabitants re:change school menus survey of food shops and supermarkets links with health information .
13 Discussion of less traditional approaches and concerns continues with reference to social work and citizens ' charters , citizenship and participation .
14 The directors consider that the market value of the company 's interest in land and buildings amounts to £110,000 which is £48,956 greater than the net book value shown in the accounts .
15 The mixture of sounds and ideas comes from Fyfe 's vehement defence of dance music , now moving from techno to Consolidated ; Michael 's travelling CD collection , which finds Carcass nestling next to House Of Pain ; and Andy 's belief in a belligerent guitar sound , tempered with tunes ( a throwback in part to his early teen encounters with punk and new wave ) .
16 ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills .
17 My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago .
18 The most interesting of a myriad of other partnerships and endorsements comes from HaL Computer Systems Inc , which is working with USL to make the future versions of SVR4.2 into the 64-bit world .
19 Around each bend , a new configuration of arches , pillars , temples , cathedrals and amphitheatres peels into view , eroded rock forms which geologists have sought to describe in architectural terms , but which in scale and complexity dwarf the largest creations of man .
20 Organised by the Basel Kunstmuseum , ‘ Transform ’ was conceived by Basel 's most celebrated dealer Ernst Beyeler and features works by Matisse , Giacometti , Baselitz , Newman , Stella , Judd , Beuys , Nauman and Borofsky .
21 It monitors all local and remote elements in a computer system , including attached devices such as printers , terminals , administrator consoles and communications links in addition to cost-system functions .
22 Descriptive studies of pre-school education ( Parry and Archer 1974 , Gilkes 1987 ) have illuminated the debate to some extent and aims and objectives approaches to curriculum design can serve as pragmatic guidelines in the absence of a consensus about short and longer term criteria for early childhood education .
23 From Laura Ashley the Botanica wallpaper in terracotta multi white costs £8.95 per roll , the Physic Garden fabric for the cushion and curtains starts at £10.95 per metre and border costs £4.95 per roll .
24 Always select popular groups and rugs which represent a reasonable cross-section of the sizes and prices ranges on offer ( i.e. from a small nomadic rug to a workshop carpet ) , because prices do not always fluctuate evenly across the board .
25 By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun .
26 The road back towards the shops and bars melts into water , thanks to the oppressive dry heat .
27 ( It was reported in June 1989 that Spain and France had agreed to abolish some customs and police controls on border roads in the Pyrenees . )
28 The relative distribution of continents and oceans interacts with variation in solar energy to induce dramatic variations in climate .
29 The marginal propensity to import is also 0.2 , so that for every £10 million rise in income , spending on imports rises by £2 million and the consumption of home-produced goods and services rises by £6 million .
30 The formula of an element or compound which exists as molecules consists of symbols of the element(s) in one molecule and shows the number of atoms of each element in one molecule .
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