Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 This week 14 paintings were put up for auction in London so the gallery could clear its debts and provide grants for artists , particularly students , in the region .
2 Quoting reseller sources briefed by the company , Computer Reseller News is looking for Sun to phase out the ELC and Sparcstation 2 to make room for new Tsunami-run IPCs and IPXs .
3 As the use of equity based financing mechanisms reduces the degree of inequality of allocation nationally the potential benefits to be derived from developing increasingly elaborate models for allocation are likely to be small .
4 The circle then disappears wholly , and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal .
5 Some have tested host responses towards real or model cuckoo eggs with different degrees of mimicry in areas where the host is sympatric with the parasite and in areas where the host has ( presumably ) never been parasitized .
6 Sterilization is becoming one of the most important methods of contraception among women of childbearing years , and the normal method of contraception for couples where the woman is aged over 30 .
7 Conversely , if the Director had no powers of compulsion after charge then the issuing of yet another caution would make no difference .
8 To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the system of general practitioner fund-holding is progressing .
9 SVQs are based on the national standards determined by those responsible for identifying standards of performance in industry ie. the Industry Lead Bodies ( ILBs ) .
10 ‘ Conditional ’ and ‘ Credit ’ are commonly used to describe contracts of sale of goods where the price is payable in instalments .
11 The remainder of this chapter will be devoted to examining how the potential provided by the two versions of the infinitive is actually used by speakers of English in contexts where the infinitive occurs after full verbs .
12 I spoke not to an individual child but to the head of school in Hatfield where the scheme was piloted and I have to say he was , he neither rhapsodised nor condemned .
13 The guardian and interpreter of socialist legality was the CPSU and it was in this role that the party justified its intervention in the course of justice in cases where the interest and security of the state were thought to be involved .
14 The defendant has to show that the plaintiff assumed the legal risk of injury in circumstances where the defendant 's act would otherwise amount to negligence .
15 In this case the same precautions apply and it is even more important to deal with ownership of copyright otherwise the agency ( as employer ) could turn out to be the ultimate owner of the copyright .
16 FROYLE Village Hall was ablaze with colour on Friday when the Gardening Club held their annual spring show .
17 The interim report to 31 March 1992 explains that ‘ the new accounting policy is more appropriate to a company with Teredo 's changed direction and brings the company into line with others where the initial speculative exploration phase has been completed ’ .
18 On the debit side it must be said that Ventura is not really suited for use on documents where the styles and formats change from page to page ; newsletters and magazines , for example .
19 Also , they note the more marked occupational stability of manual workers in West Germany as a result of the greater prestige of industrial employment , in contrast to France where the employees ' aim on achieving promotion or becoming successful is typically to leave the ranks of the working class and become office workers or independent craftsmen .
20 A recent example is to be found in DPP v. Hutchinson where the Ministry of Defence , by slavishly following existing precedents , succeeded in enacting by-laws which were quite clearly ultra vires .
21 to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of all shareholders are proportionate [ as nearly as may be ] to their holdings of such shares subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors may consider necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , statutory restrictions or legal or practical problems under or resulting from the application of the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory ; and
22 Video recording is also regularly used in training for situations where the ability to communicate is important .
23 It is therefore restricted in application to situations where the load is constant , or to closed.loop position control systems ( see Section 7.4.2 ) .
24 The TGAT Report suggests that headteachers might exempt children with language difficulties in English from tests where the problem is so severe as to render the assessment unworkable .
25 The same effects are visible in the River Wye in Hereford itself where the site of the early ford below the Bishop 's Palace is picked out in white in July when the water crowfoot is in flower .
26 This last proposition is based on experience of systems where the intervention requires complex manipulative activity , for example a surgeon dealing with an emergency during an operation or an aircraft pilot taking over manually .
27 And when Linda returned to work at weekends when the twins were eight-weeks-old he took charge of all four .
28 And when Linda returned to work at weekends when the twins were eight-weeks-old he took charge of all four .
29 The criterion of coverage is likely to prevail over frequency in cases where the purpose of learning is to acquire a minimal productive competence across a limited range of predictable situations .
30 I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany .
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