Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I remember names and faces , names I heard called at dawn gatherings in town squares , or by empty fuel pits and anti-tank ditches , or under the light of policemen 's bonfires , or in waiting zones , in train stations , in green fields at night . |
| 32 | Patients without endoscopic oesophagitis or with the presence of erosions at the distal oesophagus are younger , usually in the fourth decade and mainly women , while patients with Barrett 's oesophagus ( uncomplicated and complicated with ulcer and/ or stricture ) are significantly older ( usually in the fifth decade ) and mainly men . |
| 33 | Many people achieve it on their own , within their families , or with the help of friends or untrained helpers . |
| 34 | It was also possible to classify the States of Europe according to their ability to wage war , whether on their own or with the help of subsidies and other encouragements from their more powerful neighbours . |
| 35 | in Kings North Trust Ltd. v. Bell [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 119 , 123 , as ‘ clear law ’ or with the line of cases from Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 to Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 . |
| 36 | Any other arrestable offence may be serious if its commission has led to or is likely to lead to : ( a ) serious harm to the security of the state or public order ; ( b ) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( c ) death ; ( d ) serious injury ; ( e ) substantial financial gain or serious financial loss . |
| 37 | Section 38(1) allows this : ( I ) if necessary to substantiate a name or address ; ( 2 ) if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing this is necessary : ( i ) for the suspect 's own protection ; ( ii ) to prevent him from causing physical injury to any other person ; ( iii ) to prevent loss or damage to property ; ( iv ) to ensure his appearance in court ; ( v ) to prevent interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( vi ) juveniles can also be detained in custody if the custody officer believes this to be in the juvenile 's own interests . |
| 38 | You may even feel your skin crawling after a difficult meeting or with the impact of crowds of people . |
| 39 | Did authority reside in the parents , with their popular language of purity ( and one suspects a commonsense discourse about the naturalness and inevitability of procreation and parenthood ) , or with the power of professionals ? |
| 40 | A large number of in vitro studies in Ussing chambers have shown that many compounds released by inflammatory cells ( eg monokines , various enzymes , and free radicals ) activate enteric nerves either directly or via the formation of prostaglandins ( for a recent review , see Hinterleiterner and Powell ) . |
| 41 | Clearly this model has considerable relevance in an NHS context , where in the majority of cases purchasers and providers are locked into each other for a large part of their business ; the information base on demand , cost and quality is poor and transaction costs are potentially high . |
| 42 | To attempt such a separation tends to lend colour to a distinction often drawn within the curriculum at school or within the range of subjects studied in higher education between the useful and the useless . |
| 43 | Their outstanding abilities lay elsewhere and ie is to their fine engineering achievements in vaulting such constructions as the Basilica of Constantine and the Baths of Diocletian , or in the building of amphi-theatres such as the Colosseum , or in layouts like the Palace of Diocletian in Split or the Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli that we can appreciate their genius for architectural effect and scale in planning . |
| 44 | It is submitted on behalf of the Attorney-General that there was no delay , either in the investigation of the complaint against the respondent or in the bringing of proceedings against him which could properly be said to amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 45 | Finally , as industrial societies do not remain static — indeed some sociologists are already talking of a ‘ postindustrial ’ society — what further changes , if any , are we likely to see in patterns of family living or in the development of alternatives to what we usually understand as ‘ the family ’ ? |
| 46 | Without autonomous change in tastes , or in technological possibilities , or in the availability of resources , no one can have any interest in altering his plans for the succeeding period . |
| 47 | It in no way means that other outcomes are not possible , particularly if the system is perturbed by say , bad weather , or a strike , or in the case of embryos , by experimental manipulation . |
| 48 | At the third level , are the SRO rules which emerge from this tailoring process ( or in the case of persons directly authorized by the SIB , the SIB rules ) . |
| 49 | We may be interested in the price comparison or in the quantity of stamps bought . |
| 50 | Even the largest-fanged empiricist rarely refrains from engaging in some form of thought experiment , either in framing the terms of reference for the data collection or in the discussion of results . |
| 51 | Suitable precedents can be found in Kelly 's Draftsman , 15th edn , Butterworths , 1986 , or in the Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents , 5th edn , Butterworths , 1989 , Vol 17 . |
| 52 | Pound says , in effect : ‘ If your French is n't good enough to go where the quality is both defined ( metaphorically ) and exemplified , i.e. in Gautier 's ‘ L'art ’ specifically and in his Emaux et Camées as a whole , or in the work of followers like Hérédia and Samain , then remind yourself , or re-experience , what it is like to read George Herbert and Christina Rossetti and Lionel Johnson . |
| 53 | There is little difference in the custodial rates for the two offences or in the length of sentences . ’ |
| 54 | That meaning , in our judgment , is not to be arrived at by reference to the more limited and technical interpretations given to these words in the context of the law of master and servant , as in Mersey Docks and Harbour Board v. Coggins & Griffith ( Liverpool ) Ltd. [ 1947 ] A.C. 1 , or in the context of pensions and National Insurance law , as in Ready Mixed Concrete ( South East ) Ltd. v. Minister of Pensions and National Insurance [ 1968 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 55 | The high seroprevalence of toxoplasma IgG among women born in Ireland compared with British born women may reflect differences in the consumption of undercooked meat or unpasteurised milk or in the use of freezers over the past 30–40 years . |
| 56 | The private grounds surrounding the villa offer relaxation either by the swimming pool , which is equipped with deck-chairs and umbrellas , or in the shade of centuries old trees where a meandering spectacle of olive groves , vineyards , fields and hills stretches out as far as the eye can see . |
| 57 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 58 | Floodlights are available either as wide-beam units for general lighting , or in the form of spot-lamps the light from which is focused into a concentrated beam ; some have variable-focus lamps and can be used for either duty . |
| 59 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 60 | Health is another , whether in the form of workplace hazards that pose broader dangers or in the form of struggles to defend the health service . |