Example sentences of "[prep] past [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It conjures up vague images of past imperialistic glories which are hardly relevant . |
| 2 | Realistic recreations of past dark deeds are dramatically brought to life through tableaux , scenic effects and spectacular sound and lighting . |
| 3 | Set in a labyrinth of passages and secret chambers deep below ground , realistic recreation of past dark deeds are dramatically brought to life with scenic effects and spectacular sounds and lighting . |
| 4 | First , conventionalism explains how the content of past political decisions can be made explicit and noncontestable . |
| 5 | Law as integrity supposes that people are entitled to a coherent and principled extension of past political decisions even when judges profoundly disagree about what this means . |
| 6 | Eliot 's meeting with Peters brought a painful revival of past good times . |
| 7 | There are a number of reconstructions of past continental movements available but the series of maps produced by Smith et al. |
| 8 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 9 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 10 | His head , ill-constructed out of sharp edges and loosely-hung skin , rested against the wall , out of place between two framed photographs of past successful teams , young men , glowing with health . |
| 11 | There are special rules relating to publication of past criminal convictions . |
| 12 | The way in which glacial processes were studied was by investigations in areas including Iceland , Baffin Island , Antarctica , Alaska , Scandinavia , and the European Alps and it was from such research that the understanding and interpretation of past glacial systems was enhanced , as in Scotland by Sissons ( 1967 ) . |
| 13 | Property might seem to be an unusual investment for pension funds given its volatile nature , but its inclusion can be defended on the grounds of past long-term returns that have been a good hedge against inflation . |
| 14 | Environmental Archaeology seeks to understand the relationship between human populations and the natural environment through time ; it is the study of the ecology of past human cultures . |
| 15 | The very air seemed full of spirits , of past human hopes and fears , desires and happinesses . |
| 16 | This encouraged a move away from the study of artefacts and ‘ cultures ’ based on them which had developed in the absence of such dating methods , to a more all-embracing study of past human societies . |
| 17 | Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East . |
| 18 | Club records , and such photographs , often yield interesting and sometimes amusing information on many aspects of past local activities , and may well record architectural features long gone/ |
| 19 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the rise of almost £25 , a chunky 9pc when inflation is running at 4.1pc , will act as a Labour Party reminder to the charge payer of past Tory gaffes ? |
| 21 | Thus , realism may most readily be viewed as a reaction to the attempt to construct a formal science of law founded on what may be termed the case method ; that is , the assumption that , by close examination of past judicial decisions , the basic principles of law could be deduced . |
| 22 | He must decide , for example , whether it actually follows from the assumed convention of legislation that Elmer has a right to his inheritance because of the statute of wills , or from the putative convention of precedent that Mrs. McLoughlin had a right to compensation because of past judicial decisions . |
| 23 | The study and understanding of past climatic changes poses many problems of considerable scientific interest , but of great intrinsic difficulty . |
| 24 | Since the disposition of continents has changed , these ‘ faunal realms ’ offer a method of deducing the distribution of past climatic belts . |
| 25 | It is not impossible that by election-day the memory of past Socialist errors ( committed by the man still leading the party ) will have eaten away Mr Papandreou 's present lead , and that Mr Mitsotakis will pull off as big a surprise as the one the equally uncharismatic John Major pulled off in Britain last year . |
| 26 | At arcade level , lie the tombs of past Bohemian kings . |
| 27 | Unlike past live efforts , however , this is massively entertaining , a rare treat to eavesdrop into a world that is festooned with ugly and crazy behaviour . |
| 28 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 29 | IF LABOUR wins on Thursday , it will be time to start praying for inflation , currency devaluation and all those other horrors associated with past Labour governments . |
| 30 | Changes in the overall incidence of H pylori gastritis , as a result of rising standards of living and improved public health , together with past smoking habits , may partly explain these observations . |