Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches . |
| 2 | In the East , ‘ there could be such a lust for reunification for economic reasons , to get access to the prosperity of West Germany , that it will pressurise all the existing political parties into embracing reunification . ’ |
| 3 | And the Attorney-General can only act if there is a complaint about sentence within 28 days of the verdict and can only refer it for review on grounds of leniency . |
| 4 | Many larger houses were being split up into ‘ so-called flats ’ , and he called for protection for such families . |
| 5 | Right to social security and Labour Code for protection for domestic workers . |
| 6 | Thais campaign for protection of western forests |
| 7 | Sir : Did Sarah Helm ( 3 October ) attend the same Society for Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) conference as I did ? |
| 8 | Hungary proposed 18 tariff increases after the government ‘ heroically resisted ’ calls for protection of 1,000 items . |
| 9 | The justification for protection in these circumstances is that a businessman who is willing to deal on the other party 's standard terms and conditions is probably unable to negotiate a special deal due to an inequality of bargaining power . |
| 10 | Many other women I spoke to told me that for protection from racial attacks it was essential to have Asian neighbours . |
| 11 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 12 | At the conference of the Non-Aligned held in Managua in January 1983 the Cuban Foreign Minister , Malmierca , argued that the Falklands War ‘ proved to Latin Americans that their instruments and means of collective defence with the United States , which were supposedly for protection against extrahemispheric powers , are nothing but mechanisms to be used when Washington 's interests are threatened by pro-independence actions in any of our states ’ . |
| 13 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
| 14 | In combination with the alkaline lysis method for preparation of bacterial lysates , this constitutes a rapid and effective method for the isolation of plasmid DNA for sequencing and other purooses . |
| 15 | In the case of the state of Maharashtra a compulsory sterilisation bill outlining heavy prison sentences for non-sterilisation in certain cases actually reached the State Assembly ( Economic and Political Weekly , 10 April 1976 , p.550 ) . |
| 16 | The Association will carefully monitor the take up of Vocational Qualifications by the industry and the country-wide acceptance of NVQs as nationally recognised qualifications : in the meantime it is apparent that there is a well defined need for flexible and modular provision of learning support and underpinning knowledge for those who are working towards competences , which can be assessed for award of Vocational Qualifications . |
| 17 | Nearly all of them have joined through exposure to psychic phenomena . |
| 18 | Staff have also been able to learn from each other through exposure to different philosophies of teaching and assessment in other disciplines . |
| 19 | Structured CPE can be achieved through interaction with other individuals ( not necessarily other members ) . |
| 20 | The third dialectic involves the subject recognizing itself through interaction with other subjects . |
| 21 | From this initial thought the sociologist goes on to consider baptism as a ‘ rite of passage ’ and scans the library in both the sociology and the social anthropology sections for previous writings which will give more information about baptism in other cultures and also about the significance of rites of passage in both primitive and advanced societies . |
| 22 | Wright acted as Chairman with two principals , John Haddon and Samuel Davis , and these three were probably the founder members . |
| 23 | Reflex actions are automatic involuntary reactions which result as response to particular stimuli . |
| 24 | In Northern Ireland protests about discrimination by local authorities led to the creation of a province wide Housing Executives and in Scotland there is an important nationwide public housing authority to supplement the work of the local authorities . |
| 25 | ‘ We left Reyjavik on Good Friday and on the Sunday morning I was turned in , having come off watch at 0400 hours . |
| 26 | Its broad aims were to analyse large American companies in order to discover differences in return on investment ( ROI ) , to establish par values for ROI for different industries and their segments , and to attempt to explain variations in ROI across companies and their subsidiary business units by reference to strategic factors . |
| 27 | The following resolution , passed by the Aberdeen Congress in 1950 , is an example of repeated calls for change at other Congresses : That the members of the BDDA assembled in Congress at Aberdeen in August 1950 , while appreciating the genuine desire and efforts of the teaching profession to furnish deaf children with a satisfactory education by means of the Pure Oral Method , are nevertheless gravely perturbed at the general low standard of achievement under a system which ignores completely the value of manual means of communication . |
| 28 | All who work within the education service are acutely aware of the pressure for change at all levels . |
| 29 | Prison regimes are subject to pressures for change from many quarters and several aspects of prison practices are currently under review . |
| 30 | We may therefore conclude in relation to bargaining structures ( whether centralised or decentralised ) that although there are clearly forces making for change in all countries their extent should , perhaps , not be over-estimated — especially not those changes which may appear to produce convergent systems . |