Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is not only living beings that initially ‘ mirror ’ the face and construe it as image , for the ‘ other ’ now extends to an entire symbolic cultural field where in particular the language of the visual image constructs faces that we then identify with and attempt to emulate . |
| 2 | The suggestion there was that we derive the account of justification from that of knowledge , thus : a is justified in believing p iff in certain circumstances a would know that p . |
| 3 | This cuts down processing and response time of calls where in a Distributed Relational Database Architecture environment , client requests have to be translated at the server , which increases system overhead and makes database access less flexible . |
| 4 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 5 | It 's all a bit iff in the clouds |
| 6 | This use of dots with slurs is so consistent that I have not found a single instance where in this combination the dots were not clearly identifiable as such . |
| 7 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 8 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 9 | All three Welsh areas had a high number of family units where at least one member had attended formal training , whilst in Orkney and Wester Ross there was one and none respectively . |
| 10 | The hotel 's restaurant enjoys a good reputation , with a lovely first-floor terrace where on fine days you dine overlooking the lake . |
| 11 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 12 | The following are examples from schools where at least one microcomputer is now permanently based in the school library . |
| 13 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 14 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 15 | It happened only a mile from the Metrocentre shopping complex where on May 9 last year several IRA incendiary devices were planted in stores , some going off but causing only minimal damage . |
| 16 | These functional and realist stages tended to develop in sequence and characterized each of the branches of physical geography albeit to varying degrees . |
| 17 | It is more a battle of style and speed than of brawn or luck . |
| 18 | Table 3 shows there is a significantly greater RFA for trigram than for dot location and for words than for dot counting . |
| 19 | Also , Table 4 shows there is a significantly greater RFA for trigrams than for dot counting and for words than for dot location . |
| 20 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 21 | In recent years this ‘ hymn explosion ’ has been detonated more by new words than by new music . |
| 22 | We could also write down other things about what we have noticed which would be better expressed in words than in paint . |
| 23 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |
| 24 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 25 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 26 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 27 | In fact , she seemed more bothered about the horse than about him . ’ |
| 28 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 29 | The prohibition against churning is , in theory , no more applicable to futures transactions than any other type of investment although in practice the " churn and burn " and hard sell tactics of some of the more disreputable futures brokers have , in the past , given a misleading impression of the futures industry generally . |
| 30 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |