Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Taking their terms of analysis from the burgeoning new field of semiotics and arguing against an earlier conception of Hollywood as a lost cause for feminism , Johnston and Cook re-read the films of women directors such as Ida Lupino and Dorothy Arzner . |
| 32 | Ramlal approached in fear , awed by the sounds of chanting and the peal of bells that rose above the endless mutter of devotees . |
| 33 | In conjunction with several American firms , Clive and Stokes has been involved in developing ISA ( International Search Associates ) which aims to find firms who will adhere to a strict set of rules and co-operate in a manner which will enable the client to have the benefit of local know-how , with less restrictive off-limits constraints , but at the same time have an international outlook . |
| 34 | The accord , signed 10 days ago , is aimed at preventing the sort of conflicts that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union from being repeated within Russia . |
| 35 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 36 | A year later a second note was among another smuggled group of notes that arrived for the relatives . |
| 37 | The participants represented a wide variety of views and tended on the whole to disapprove of state-imposed censorship . |
| 38 | ACE genotype ( DD more frequent in cases than in controls ) : Population ( different relative frequency of cases and controls in the 4 populations ) : Heterogeneity of ACE genotype effect across populations : |
| 39 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 40 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 41 | She glanced across at the dog-eared book of maps that lay on the passenger-seat beside her . |
| 42 | In Chapters 3 and 4 we have been looking at the major groups of institutions that participate in the financial system . |
| 43 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 44 | Mr Launders is pleased with the responsible reaction of shareholders and press to the valuation . |
| 45 | While it is in these that we are primarily interested in for the development of teaching material , they are likely to be dependent on the climate of attitudes that prevails in the lesson . |
| 46 | The devaluation was intended to assist a revival of exports and came after the announcement of October 's trade figures , the worst since January 1987 . |
| 47 | Imports fell from December 's record £5.44 billion last month , but at £5.32 billion were still well ahead of exports and led to a visible trade deficit of £1.02 billion , the third-biggest ever . |
| 48 | For every site , however , the archaeologists ' main concerns are to recover the sequence of plans that result from the changing occupation and use of the site over a period of time ; the stratigraphic sequence of layers ; the relationship of any features such as walls , pits and ditches to one another ; evidence for the dating of these features and of the site as a whole ; evidence for the climate and local environment when the site was occupied ; and the relationship of the site to other sites , both in the locality and further afield . |
| 49 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 50 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 51 | Results of psycholinguistic experiments to do with the intelligibility of words spliced out of context seem to cast doubt on the usefulness of the categorization , however , Lieberman ( 1963 ) found that , the word borrower was recognised by 80% of subjects when isolated from the context , The borrowers were all imprisoned , but was only 45% intelligible in the context Neither a borrower nor a lender be . |
| 52 | The wildly snaking curves in the left panel are the traces of orbits that lie in the corotation region . |
| 53 | Next morning , Sunday 13 November 1715 , General Carpenter reached Preston with three regiments of dragoons and blocked off the rebels ' only escape route , towards Liverpool . |
| 54 | Rather than accepting the idea of a new world order based on the community of nations as expressed through the United Nations , security is to be expressed through a series of Western- dominated collective security structures . |
| 55 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 56 | The fire had been started in a pile of books and spread through the assembly hall and classrooms . |
| 57 | A simple family record should be equally simple in its choice of words and spoken in a natural and relaxed tone of voice . |
| 58 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 59 | Tallis mounted Swimmer of Lakes and returned to the south , kicking the horse , challenging it , urging it to run faster through the night , back towards the swirling zones of seasons . |
| 60 | The Rockingbirds then play the heartfelt ‘ Standing On The Doorstep Of Love ’ , the anthemic hero-tribute ‘ Jonathan Jonathan ’ , and a run of crowd-pleasers that culminates in a cover of ‘ In Tall Buildings ’ which is plain perfect . |