Example sentences of "[noun] ' [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government textbooks continue to depict women in the caring roles ' in society and a study carried out in Central American schools clearly showed that a " lack of aspiration " among young women is related to the limited employment possibilities open to them . |
| 2 | The literary context in our culture creates a situation where relevance may be achieved in alternative ways , so as to constitute this " openness ' for criticism . |
| 3 | We can profitably ask if realism in linguistics is incompatible with " openness ' in textual interpretation . |
| 4 | It was suggested that " such units should be part of the psychiatric service and would compare with continuing care units ' of the geriatric service . " |
| 5 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 6 | There was a plan once to supply our place and the Fawcetts ' at West Birk Hatt from a source within the boundaries of High Birk Hatt , but the Fawcetts had to leave when their farm disappeared under the waters of Balderhead Reservoir which , ironically , put paid to that enterprise . |
| 7 | At a mid-point in the novel there occurs McClintoch 's complaint that people are divided into the ‘ attractive ’ and the ‘ unattractive ’ , rather as , according to Disraeli , as Graham duly notes , Victorian England was divided into the two nations ' of rich and poor . |
| 8 | Also " the Early Iron Age is credited , broadly speaking , with the numerous duns ' around the coasts and the hill fortifications . |
| 9 | In particular , the evidence suggests more numerous and more significant substantial affinities , and a dearth of the close but extensive relationships ( integral affinities ) which are usually indicative of " schools ' of mosaicists . |
| 10 | The combination of the narrator 's voice with features associated with the characters ' thought patterns may be compared to the use of free indirect thought in fictions in which the " voices ' of narrator and characters are blended , sometimes almost inextricably . |
| 11 | While there 's some of that in ‘ Weird Nightmare ’ , Willner has fashioned an altogether darker ride , placing the shocking , brutal stream-of-consciousness prose from Mingus ' Beneath The Underground autobiography in the mouths of a droll , disembodied Leonard Cohen , a stentorian , harassing Chuck D and Doctor Joh , the latter back in a setting that recalls the Bacchanalian exotica of his classic ‘ Gris Gris ’ psychedelic gumbo album . |
| 12 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 13 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 14 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 15 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 16 | There is no long term advantage of three months ' over one month 's treatment . |
| 17 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 18 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 19 | Using this formula , the Department of the Environment issues guidelines ' on local authorities ' rent levels , and since levels are meant to relate to local house prices , they will vary considerably from one part of the country to another . |
| 20 | Polisario also claimed success in a Nov. 16 attack on the region between Mgala and Guelta Zamour , during which it claimed to have inflicted " significant human and material losses ' on the enemy . |
| 21 | The ACDA text reported that the main areas of continuing disagreement between the negotiating teams consisted of ( i ) definitions of and counting rules covering air-launched cruise missiles ( ALCMs ) : the USA wished only to include nuclear-armed missiles with a range in excess of 1,500 km with the assumption that a specified average number of missiles be attributed to each bomber , while the Soviet Union included " dual-capable " ( conventional/nuclear ) missiles with a range in excess of 600 km with the assumption that the maximum number of missiles be attributed to each type of bomber ; ( ii ) whether submarine-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) should be limited under START ( or under a separate agreement , as had been suggested by the USA ) and if so whether on-site SLCM verification procedures should be deployed ( as the Soviet Union was suggesting ) or " non-binding declarations ' of numbers be issued ( as proposed by the USA ) ; and ( iii ) a " ban on the production , flight testing or modernization " of existing types of heavy ICBMs ( suggested by the USA ) , although a ban on new missile development was agreed , as were warhead and missile sub-limits in this category . |
| 22 | So the quiet , reserved , studious girl falls " head over heels ' in love with the most outrageous extrovert in the year ! |
| 23 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 24 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 25 | The Isley Brothers ' Behind The Painted Smile — not that there is anything behind mine . |
| 26 | However , these largely straightforward patterns of cohesion were offset by a number of " anomalies ' in the original . |
| 27 | A detailed comparison should make it possible to filter out the effects of intervening variables ' from more ‘ fundamental ’ determinants of variations in the ‘ dependent variables ’ . |
| 28 | The " over-cohesiveness ' in adjacent sentences ( c ) and ( g ) was commented on particularly , with workshop particpants expressing dissatisfaction at the repetitiveness of the " there were … " construction and the similarity of the phrases " in the courtyard " and " of the courtyard " . |
| 29 | This seems to happen retrospectively , for it is the simple past tense of 'shin " d " which enables us to read the deixis of " those early dayes ' in a particular way , in direct relation to 'shin " d " . |
| 30 | Heads ' salaries range from 18,900 to 40,002 ; deputy heads ' from 18,300 to 29,100 . |