Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 2 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
| 3 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 4 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 5 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |
| 6 | The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation . |
| 7 | Apart from their very high technical quality , as in the enamels by Le Sueur on the 1760 Prémin box , nearly all boxes are distinguished either by artists ' signatures or by their provenance . |
| 8 | Hard-worked planning officers may need encouragement to pursue the matter and find letters from concerned members of the public about neglected buildings a useful prompt to take the matter to their superiors or to their committee . |
| 9 | The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and |
| 10 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 11 | all learners wishing to revise their elementary English in small groups or on their own at home . |
| 12 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 13 | The Department of Employment therefore proposed an alternative of giving industrial tribunal chairmen , acting alone , discretion at the pre-hearing stage , on the application of one of the parties or of its own motion , to require a deposit of up to £150 from the other party as a condition of proceeding further , if the chairman considered that the case had no reasonable prospect of success . |
| 14 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 15 | Some portraits of young children copy imperial features in , for example , the shape of the ears or in their hairstyles . |
| 16 | A number of British studies provide some evidence about such relationships or about their contribution to care , but this material remains unco-ordinated . |
| 17 | There were less Opportunities for learning , either from books or from one 's peers . |
| 18 | legal expenses incurred either prior to the granting of support by the insurers or without their written consent , and |
| 19 | They were all teenagers or in their early twenties . |
| 20 | This means you can pay in and withdraw cash or cheques , at any of our branches or at our self-service banking machines ; issue standing orders and direct debits to pay club subscriptions etc , at no cost — however often you use them . |
| 21 | The square is full of islanders , the men in trilbies or baseball caps , the women with embroidered black shawls round their shoulders or over their heads . |
| 22 | Therefore , she often guides the patient by placing her hand on his chest , or both hands behind his shoulders or on his hip bones below his waist . |
| 23 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 24 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 25 | Academic staff may use appropriate systems for the development of their computing expertise ; for research projects ; for the support of teaching ; for the exchange of academic information with their peers or with their students throughout the Janet linked institutions in the UK or elsewhere ; and for related access to public domain facilities . |
| 26 | If you have been out of nursing or health visiting for six months or less you may feel that completing a formal course is a waste of valuable time which might be more profitably spent in reorientation to your new job . |
| 27 | I 've got a lot of resentment that needs to come out , not on my kids nor on me , or on anybody . |
| 28 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 29 | Ditched in the Vertigo dumper are the pop songs and in their place comes track upon track of similar-sounding , decidedly gloomy psychedelic romps which they do , on occasion , pull off by the skin of their mushrooms . |
| 30 | Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage . |