Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another , equally peculiar to the judiciary in this country , is their particular version of the doctrine of the ‘ independence of the judiciary ’ ( see Chapter 4 ) , which leads them to resent what they perceive as interference by governments in their sentencing practice .
2 ( 1 ) Sections 45 to 50 of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( which provide for payment of allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies ) shall apply with any necessary modifications to members of licensing boards as if the licensing boards were local authorities .
3 The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis .
4 Numerous research projects were set up to investigate patterns of transmitted deprivation where families appear to hand down problems from generation to generation .
5 For two months every summer I was engaged to produce , and act as Master of Ceremonies for , the Home Gas Show , a weekly hour-length commercial programme .
6 Free Speech 3 : No cause for panic over risks on site
7 Cover for deterioration of goods in deep freeze due to breakdown is now included free of charge up to a limit of £500 .
8 In many cases the threads of mycelium invade the plant roots and act in symbiosis as channels for nutrients between soil and plant .
9 The unwary climber is dive-bombed by irate parent birds as speckled chicks freeze to stillness behind clumps of raffia-like moor grass .
10 The local community at Murrisk at the foot of the mountain depend on water from streams on the mountain for their water supply and were worried about possible contamination from the mining company 's activities : relations were not helped by the accidental pollution of water by diesel during the company 's operations .
11 We stand for solidarity between workers of all races and colours and we are opposed and must stop unscrupulous politicians and racist groups using the race issue to divide working people !
12 However , beware of jealousy between members of the family .
13 We return to these uses in the last part of this chapter , when we look in detail at roles for video in the lesson .
14 Following the rejection of Turkey 's application for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) in December 1989 [ see p. 37133 ] , Ali Bozer , then Minister in Charge of Relations with the EC , told The Times in January 1990 that Turkey would continue to press the European Commission for a specific date for Turkish membership as soon as possible after the introduction of the single market on Dec. 31 , 1992 .
15 These vary in accordance with changes in the company 's issued share capital , subject to an absolute limit which was set at 6,661,855 ordinary shares in August 1985 , representing 5% of the issued share capital at that time .
16 Transmission lines vary in length from centimetres to thousands of kilometres , and to achieve satisfactory transmission it is essential for the delivery and return conductors to be of low-enough resistance and sufficiently insulated from each other .
17 Boys lie on turf with dogs on no restless business ,
18 Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all .
19 ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton .
20 The bill also increased the amount of earned income exempt from tax for workers in the lowest income brackets , and established a $500 tax credit for taxpayers with children under one year old .
21 participate in selection of schools for recommendation to Principal Education Officer and Chief County Inspector
22 The years pass in parade like pageants in a dream .
23 I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene .
24 Because the status of women is inextricably linked to a complex politico-economic system , it , and the ideas connected with it , change in response to changes in the system as a whole .
25 Core fields show three basic changes : drifting of flux , change in strength of patches of flux , and growth of pairs of positive and negative flux through expulsion of toroidal field through the surface .
26 The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave .
27 What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness .
28 First , many books already deal with doubt in terms of a theology of assurance .
29 Simultaneously the Mercure de France published in its October issues the letters of-Cézanne to Emile Bernard , including the letter which contains the passage : ‘ Allow me to repeat what I said to you here : deal with nature in terms of the cylinder , the sphere , the cone , all seen in perspective , so that each side of an object or plane is directed towards a central point .
30 Instead , he believes , they rely on advice from teachers about whether or not an applicant would be compatible .
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