Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [n mass] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time last year I was sitting with twenty other people in some dull sixth-form room , being told about participles or Corn Laws by someone no one had ever heard of , and here I am , just one year later , on my own in a solidly built house in North Oxford , a cup of coffee on the floor beside me , giving my views on sense-data to a well-known professional philosopher who then has to break off to take a call from the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | Many thanks for your letter of 5 April acknowledging my cheque for £100 for the charities for the benefit of which the Swimathon was run . |
| 3 | This was attributed to a 14% reduction in the cost of its operations to $1,620m following a 9% contraction in 1991 . |
| 4 | During their work on a social committee they can build their relationships with people in the industry , like agents selling bands and record companies helping with marketing and promotion . |
| 5 | During her night 's stay a fire broke out in the hotel and the guest , in a panic , attempted to leave her second floor room through her window by means of a ‘ rope ’ made from bed linen . |
| 6 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 7 | It is encouraging to see that the Society is also moving with the times and its work with people with a disability , mothers and toddlers and its preparations for the arrival of National Vocational Qualifications are to be commended . |
| 8 | That is why London Association for the Blind extends its help to people throughout the country and is at work in your area . |
| 9 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 10 | Its selling for $2,000 until the end of the quarter . |
| 11 | The Society is unique in sharing any such surplus with its policyholders by means of a Special Discount which benefits those motor policyholders whose premiums have substantially contributed to the surplus and therefore helps to ensure that the cost of motor insurance is shared more fairly . |
| 12 | Lostwithiel too dealt with its scolds by means of the ducking stool near the mill by Cotter Lake , close to the present railway station . |
| 13 | For instance , if there is no present market for the delivery of cars one year hence conditional on a certain oil price then neither car firms nor consumers can co-ordinate their actions by means of a market as Smith suggested , nor can they insure . |
| 14 | Cenco settled with its investors for $11m over the affair , and then issued a writ against its auditor , Seidman & Seidman . |
| 15 | The piece of paper records a list of all the new species identified by Gould from the Galapagos , with , alongside them , notes about their alliance with species on the American continent . |
| 16 | He complained that health authority officials sitting on the Ling Trust board , including unit general manager Murray Duncanson , would not surrender their control over staff at the homes . |
| 17 | By comparison with marriage and family sociology , women are conspicuous for their absence as data in the sociology of industry and work . |
| 18 | However , Charles ' law is more usually expressed in the form Charles ' law was developed by Joseph Gay-Lussac who , in 1802 , stated that the volume of a gas changes by 1/273 of its volume at 0°C for every 1°C change in temperature . |
| 19 | A breakdown of the latest figures shows that the consumer electronics division made an operating loss of $31.1m , similar to its shortfall of $33.4m in the same period last year . |
| 20 | The eel had to be prepared for her journey by staff at the centre who gradually acclimatised her in their newly built quarantine unit . |
| 21 | The company was to be allowed to increase its capital by £1,150 for every £100 p.a. worth of annuity offered to it by holders up to £2.5 million . |
| 22 | At a Royal Show briefing , Egil Hersleth of the Norwegian Red Cattle Society said that the Norwegians had included mastitis resistance in their selection index for about 20 years , and in that time had reduced its incidence by 1% in the national herd . |
| 23 | The church must seek to develop its spiritual and personal resources to minister imaginatively and responsibly in all of these situations in its care of people from the cradle to the grave . |
| 24 | This chapter summarises the way the action project worked , through the researchers ' observations , their interviews with the development officers , and their analysis of data about the action sample clients . |
| 25 | West and Lowe concluded from their analysis of data in the fourteen hospital board regions in England and Wales that the provision of GPs and health visitors in the region was negatively correlated with such indicators of need as infant mortality rate , stillbirth rate and birth rate to mothers aged 15–19 years . |
| 26 | The Bronze Age Sumerians made a ring seal revering both fruit and Tree together : a seated goddess and horned god stretch their hands towards fruit on the tree that grows between them . |
| 27 | In the Victoria Gardens , the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry band were regaling their audience with tuna from The Shop girl , promenaders were risking the doubtful weather and adorning the seafront in their Sunday afternoon best . |
| 28 | My voice rushes out of its kennel at people like an irritated terrier . |
| 29 | I would like here to approach these questions indirectly , to clarify their import by means of a detour through the concept of the imaginary . |
| 30 | Basing her analysis on data from a large-scale , representative sample of women and men at the age of 23 , she shows that 16 per cent of single working-class men and 22 per cent of single working-class women were living with kin at the time of the survey . |