Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The push of rising population levels and increasing economic production capacity combined with the pull of widespread demand for products are enough to explain the rapid growth of the trading empire between 1700 and 1500 BC . |
| 2 | Montanism , the Easter controversy , and the debate about baptism were all complex issues which required consultation between bishops . |
| 3 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 4 | The swing to Labour , the increase in turnout and the sharp variations in results between authorities are all relevant when it comes to examining what effect the poll tax had on voting patterns . |
| 5 | Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice . |
| 6 | A user may point out that an attribute is missing from an entity , or that a relationship between entities is one-to-many and not one-to-one as implied by the entity-relationship diagram . |
| 7 | noun which includes many places , for instance Is this your first visit to London ? — Yes . |
| 8 | The carrot for operators is that electric boats are much cheaper to run , using one fifth the amount of energy used by a diesel-driven boat of equivalent size . |
| 9 | value for money is another proud boast of the greyhounds … you can own and race a dog for just over a thousand pounds a year and there 's prize money for all … that 's why so many more people are coming racing … why so many are owners |
| 10 | The wonderful thing about literature is that great poetry can chime in on any thought or experience . |
| 11 | Ever wondered why the formula for Coca-Cola is such a closely guarded secret ? |
| 12 | It seems likely that the utterances which are " really " intended for Courtney are those short London English sentences : " Shut up Courtney " at line 29 of D-1 , " Say Andrea " several times in D-6 , and " Courtney , blow the bubbles " . |
| 13 | ‘ The need for action is more than ever apparent , ’ said Coun. John Williams ( Lab ) . |
| 14 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 15 | I 'm neither a salivating cheque-signer ( how could I be ? ) , nor an orchidectomised walker ; I just happen to know that my eye , my sense of colour , my nous about fabric are all superior to those of both Stuart and Gillian combined . |
| 16 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 17 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 18 | Sometimes , just thinking about fear is enough to start the palms sweating . |
| 19 | The Roman appetite for pearls was such that they supplemented imported marine pearls by seeking out those from the freshwater mussels which grew in the rivers of their temperate provinces , despite their relative dullness and lack of lustre . |
| 20 | When the demand for labour is less than the labour force , there is a general deficiency of the demand for labour and unemployment rises above the NUP . |
| 21 | One of Thompson and Spencer 's ( 1966 ) list of ‘ criteria ’ for habituation is that habituation proceeds most readily with closely spaced trials ; but latent inhibition appears to be more profound when the pre-exposure trials are relatively widely spaced ( Lantz 1973 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ; but see also Crowell and Anderson 1972 ) . |
| 22 | Another defence to an action for defamation is that of fair comment . |
| 23 | by no means are all such men and women impervious to the claims of rational problem-solving and the demands of the national interest — the politics of principle also has its place . |
| 24 | by no means were all chairmen tyrants , but the opportunities were there and had made possible the emergence of uncontrollable ‘ powerhouse ’ figures such as Judge Howard Smith of Virginia , the chairman of the House Rules Committee , and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas , the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee . |
| 25 | A bridge between the legislating church and the law-making king might be found in the role of the clergy who until c. 1290 still dominated the royal judiciary , although by no means were all these men canon lawyers . |
| 26 | Behind the little girl who was so good at looking after others was another little girl longing to be looked after herself . |
| 27 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 28 | However , the major difficulty for management was that of re-establishing piece-work rates on the new machinery . |
| 29 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 30 | The only good things you can say about some of these new series , like Matthew Carter 's Cochin in fact that he did for Linotype are these other weights . |