Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said problems for parents came in all shapes and sizes , adding that perhaps too many of them emanated from ‘ that flickering box in the corner of the living room ’ . |
| 2 | It had often proven to be a disastrous , or at best weakening , influence upon the stability of the realm , as the inevitable feuds between factions arose from such divisions . |
| 3 | At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem . |
| 4 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 5 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 6 | Section 1 of the 1944 Act gave tremendous responsibilities to the Minister : ‘ It shall be the duty of the Minister of Education to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose , and to secure the effective execution by Local Authorities , under his control and direction , of national policy for providing a comprehensive educational service in every area . ’ |
| 7 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 8 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 9 | The group of proteins encoded by these transcripts includes the three described glial growth factors ( ref. 22 , and A.D.J.G. et al. , manuscript submitted ) and several proteins ( heregulins and Neu differentiation factor ) that have various activities on cultured breast tumour cells . |
| 10 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 11 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 12 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
| 13 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 14 | Most strikingly , fully 57 per cent of module failures occurred in term 3 , even though only 38 per cent of assessments occurred in that term . |
| 15 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 16 | The output from the program was a domain-based collocation dictionary consisting of 156 entries , with headwords listed in alphabetical order and collocation information in the form of wordlists appended to each headword . |
| 17 | He declared that 90 per cent of Indonesians belonged to this class of small farmers , labourers , urban workers : and he did not direct his attack upon the other 10 per cent but upon the Dutch who had exploited them and the Chinese entrepreneurs who lived off their labour . |
| 18 | 59% of respondents disagreed with this proposal , 82% of whom were sole practitioners . |
| 19 | The protective association between the human leukocyte antigen HLA-B53 and severe malaria was investigated by sequencing of peptides eluted from this molecule followed by screening of candidate epitopes from pre-erythrocytic-stage antigens of Plasmodium falciparum in biochemical and cellular assays . |
| 20 | The following is a selection from Allegories of Reading of propositions implicated in this oscillation between the poles of paraphrase and free-standing theory : Each of these propositions is demonstrably embedded in the same ambiguous modality as de Man 's presentation of Proust . |
| 21 | For the hearing a posse of lawyers appeared for both sides , but Thomas , at the time of his deepest depression over the outcome of the suit , comforted himself that he had secured the best lawyers that money could buy before his opponents had managed to secure them . |
| 22 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 23 | If expectations of the general level of prices rose to some level between P and P 2 then there would be some stimulus to output and some rise in prices . |
| 24 | In addition to this there are four prestigious galleries which will be used for a changing programme of exhibitions devoted to all aspects of industrial fishing addressing local , national and international topics . |
| 25 | A modicum of semi-professional training defines the role as putting into practice a set of ideals inculcated in that training . |
| 26 | A number of factors led to this decision . |
| 27 | Once on the walkway the gallant band of adventurers proceeded with some difficulty , since the hairiest one was feeling far from gallant or adventurous . |
| 28 | Although mean follow up was only 49.9 months , there was no evidence to suggest that removal of stones resulted in any improvement in prognosis . |
| 29 | Has this same pattern of events happened with this person before ? |
| 30 | Fourteen per cent of the sample of deaths occurred in such homes ; this compares with a much lower proportion , 5 per cent in 1969 ( Cartwright et al . , |