Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 2 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 3 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 4 | In the wide centre space , where one box alone stood along one wall , there was a comfortable chair for the redoubtable Ms Brown , along with a table , equipment lockers , a refrigerator and a heavy plastic water tank with a tap low down for the filling of buckets . |
| 5 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 6 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 7 | It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq . |
| 8 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 9 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 10 | Joe , limping along amid the flow of workers and enjoying the exercise and the clear air , saw barges cleaving the sunlit surface of the river , a crowded passenger boat in their wake . |
| 11 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 12 | I look down into the decomposition of leaves — |
| 13 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |
| 14 | Contributing factors include a very dry , hot summer which helps the algae to flourish , along with the residue of pesticides from farms and effluent from factories which , although greatly improved in modern times and now controlled , have left a residue on the loch bottom which still caused problems . |
| 15 | ‘ You poor young things , ’ said Corbett Farraday ( Physics , Chemistry , and anything vaguely in that line ) who was flapping his overgrown boy scout 's body along with the mass of teachers , and now looked around at them with his unnaturally innocent expression . |
| 16 | Along with the mass of plants and flowers , there is still room for tables and chairs and a small barbecue . |
| 17 | Publishers now accept novels which are composed of a series of short , interlinked stories , novels where prose narrative alternates with poems and — perhaps most interestingly — the epistolary novel has been resurrected , along with the novel of fragments , where every page contains a separate ‘ statement ’ that is linked to every other statement through place , character and feeling . |
| 18 | Along with the variety of texts , we find many conflicting attributions . |
| 19 | This will again be our aim in the current year along with the enhancement of profits from a greater pooling of resources between businesses . |
| 20 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 21 | Regional conflicts — along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear , chemical and biological weapons — present growing dangers . |
| 22 | Along with the growth of towns went the rise of the merchant class . |
| 23 | Paragraphs thirteen and fourteen recommended that the Government should immediately buy the parts of the site of the offices shown on the competition plans that it did not already own , along with the block of buildings between King Street and Parliament Street . |
| 24 | De Klerk was now able to claim that there was no longer any justification for violent protest , in view of his invitation " to all leaders who seek peace " , along with the lifting of restrictions on political groups , which he said now placed everybody in a position to pursue politics freely . |
| 25 | Work experience will provide the opportunity for personal and social development of the student along with the underpinning of skills covered in the core and optional modules . |
| 26 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 27 | They walked down under the archway of trees to the Littles ' cottage , stood outside the gate chatting to Zach and carried on down the lane . |
| 28 | Her first impression was one of sunlight pouring in from the wall of windows facing her , casting bright patches across the fitted almond-green carpet . |
| 29 | One or more levels were put in from the side of Levers Water to carry out a shallow sub-surface investigation of veins which appeared to be untried , or suspected to be covered at outcrop . |
| 30 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |