Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to compare the success of different systems , for reasons including the following : |
| 2 | In the United States , for example , there is a discernable preference for products with the technological appeal of a ‘ gadget ’ |
| 3 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 4 | They love the way the story trails away into the postscript about improvements to the mental health service . |
| 5 | They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources . |
| 6 | It was the received wisdom in Edwardian Edinburgh printing offices , and it has been repeated by writers ever since , " that women first entered the trade as strike-breakers during the great print strike of 1872–3 in the city . |
| 7 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 8 | The venomous exchanges between deputies from the two republics in the Kremlin yesterday offered little hope that reason would prevail . |
| 9 | I can confirm that stories about meetings at the party-political level are pure invention . |
| 10 | Used to distinguish between ON and OFF pixels in the stored picture . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no evidence that Hong Kong is used as a base for activities against the Chinese government , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 12 | Bond had been imprisoned for 2@1/2 years in May 1992 [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted of acting dishonestly during attempts in the late 1980s to rescue Connell 's Rothwells merchant bank . |
| 13 | One observation is essential to the construction of a GP box and that is the location of the vanishing point for diagonals of the squared plan grid , VPd , on the eye level . |
| 14 | He went further and tied the distances between the sites in with the known distances between planets in the solar system . |
| 15 | This procedure permitted comparison between operations in the four countries and projects in the four countries . |
| 16 | The attacks featured raids by groups of armed men identified by the Lithuanians as servicemen from the Soviet OMON special militia and from the Soviet army . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 18 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 19 | Erm I did write er as was suggested asking about erm facilities for cyclists in the potential shopping centre development in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 20 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 21 | The book disappoints , however , by its limited use of the large number of books written by or about Canadians in the two World Wars , in which that country made a contribution to Allied arms out of all proportion to her population . |
| 22 | But the usage in ( 86 ) and ( 87 ) can be used to reverse the argument , and in general each domain ( space and time ) provides fertile ground for metaphors about the other ( see Chapter 3 below ) . |
| 23 | Many developing nations argue that since the industrialized countries are the world 's main polluters , they should pay for improvements in the global environment ; and since they are rich , they should pay for the transfers of technology necessary for the developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions , stop deforestation and carry out other changes . |
| 24 | They propose an improved procedure for the handling of bills ; making legislation easier to follow ; and , of course , the cry for improvements in the present Select Committee system . |
| 25 | For McLuhan argues that the way our cognitive apparatus works is determined by our ‘ sense ratio ’ , the balance between inputs to the various senses ( aural , visual , tactile , and so on ) . |
| 26 | The owners also get various benefits such as copies of the annual report and accounts , the right to attend , speak and propose motions at the annual general meeting , shareholder discounts on the firm 's product , and so on . |
| 27 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
| 28 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 29 | Small wonder that women worry about the menopause , and that their anxiety is then influenced by social factors such as attitudes about the sexual attractiveness of their ageing bodies , the changing status and role of women as children leave home , and the risk of loneliness and poverty if their marriages should fail as a result . |
| 30 | The decorative flatness and the higher colour of Japanese art also follow as products of the same climatic necessity . |