Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 2 | They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it . |
| 3 | But the common assumption that Pericles ' war strategy meant the total evacuation of Attica neglects the evidence for fortifications in his time , not all of which , surely , were abandoned in 431 ( see further p. 128 ) . |
| 4 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 5 | I abhor the use of drugs in sport . |
| 6 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 7 | The return to the gold standard , which implied maintaining the £/; $ parity , severely limited the range of options for dealing with unemployment because significant monetary expansion would have undermined the balance of payments and would therefore be inconsistent with the fixed parity . |
| 8 | However , both units limited the number of in-patients to two at any given time . |
| 9 | There are also powers to compel the attendance of witnesses by obtaining a witness order . |
| 10 | The Conservative and Labour par ties have witnessed the creation of bodies within their own ranks favoring such reform . |
| 11 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 12 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 13 | The mayor of Dushanbe , Maksud Ikramov , issued what proved to be a highly controversial decree on the same day allowing the removal of statues of Lenin . |
| 14 | The ANC also rejected the call made by de Klerk that the ANC become a political party , saying that such a transformation could not take place until a constitution was in place allowing the participation of blacks at all levels . |
| 15 | Research methods will include visitor and other public attitude surveys , allowing the development of models of individual choice to be used as a basis for appraising future endangered habitats . |
| 16 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 17 | This had included restricting the activities of middlemen ( factors or " badgers " ) who were suspected of enhancing prices and of allowing the fixing of prices by local justices . |
| 18 | At the same time the policy sets certain limits on house-building in rural areas allowing the erection of houses for agricultural workers , for family members working on a full-time basis on a family farm , and on a one-to-one replacement rule . |
| 19 | The ‘ organic ’ qualities are clearly important in allowing the adoption of systems of management which , in the absence of less effective leadership in gaining commitment , would hardly be viable . |
| 20 | Managed press leaks about a pending increase in telephone charges doubled the price of shares in NTT , the Tokyo market 's leading company . |
| 21 | To isolate these sequences we used the enzyme T 4 DNA polymerase which has been shown to enable the isolation of telomeres with virtually no loss of telomeric DNA ( 30 ) . |
| 22 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 23 | The roll that is quoted above records the election of officers for the coming year and then goes on to note the making of by-laws and the fining of defaulters . |
| 24 | No distinction is made between a number that records salary and one that records the number of parts in a warehouse in St Louis . |
| 25 | HADEN MacLellan Holdings , the engineering and automated manufacturing systems group put together by Philip Ling , chairman , is maintaining the payout to shareholders at 8p , with a 5p final on July 1 , despite a 38 p.c. tumble in profits last year to £14.6m pre-tax . |
| 26 | Languages vary in the extent to which they rely on word order to signal the relationship between elements in the clause . |
| 27 | Thus the tension between town and country , which divided the liberalism of towns like Bilbao and San Sebastian from the fierce catholic conservatism of Carlism in the countryside , was less evident in Alava and Navarre . |
| 28 | ( Also , as we shall see in chapter eight , Kant divided the world of metaphysics from the world of the senses and created havoc for theology and philosophy generally . ) |
| 29 | He divided the number of crimes by the number of minutes in an hour to show how many crimes were committed in a certain time . |
| 30 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |