Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they rank the checkerboard solution last in other circumstances , in the case of strict liability for manufacturers , for example , they nevertheless believe that internal compromise is wrong , though for reasons that yield when the substantive issue is very grave . |
| 2 | On-screen presentations can include transitions such as fades and wipes and can be annotated with music or voice segments recorded with SunSoft Inc 's Audio Tool . |
| 3 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 4 | The protections and incentives offered by a successful individual voluntary arrangement ( IVA ) , can lead to a larger dividend for creditors and avoid or cancel bankruptcy for a debtor . |
| 5 | A successful voluntary arrangement can lead to a larger dividend for creditors and avoid or cancel bankruptcy for a debtor . |
| 6 | Some philosophers know a lot about bells and think that everyone who hears ringing noises in their ears must have bats in the belfry . |
| 7 | In Nigeria , it was the Resident 's task , not the emir 's , to assess the people for taxes and to see that the tax was collected . |
| 8 | Then we would visualise an alarm clock with carrots for fingers and imagine that when the alarm goes off it switches on the television set . |
| 9 | Where appropriate differences between cases when found and in 1989 , and between cases and controls , were compared by Student 's t test and a 2×2 contingency table for χ 2 with Yates 's correction . |
| 10 | Given the national publicity surrounding that school and the instability and chaos there , what procedure exists for schools that lose or have removed from them their grant-maintained status ? |
| 11 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 12 | It provides a good overview of the situation on how irradiated foods of different kinds can be monitored both for effects and to check whether they have or have not been irradiated . |
| 13 | Other parents long for grandchildren but find that their children delay marriage , or else their career-minded daughters or daughters-in-law have no intention of starting a family for a good few years . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I would have ever thought any more about it , except that years later my mother was reading a novel about gypsies and discovered that Dohti was an old Romany name . |
| 15 | No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk . |
| 16 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 17 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 18 | This was taken by a number of experts as showing that earlier estimates had been purposely conservative and that ultimately there will turn out to be far more oil in the North Sea than currently estimated . |
| 19 | When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary . |
| 20 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 21 | The new fee structure deters the use of deputies and means that increasing claims effectively lead to decreased payment for each visit . |
| 22 | A form of religion which can be rationalised to meet the needs of the foregoing , is not to be found anywhere in the whole vast accumulation of religions and sects that the world has yet produced . |
| 23 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |
| 24 | Could we not call it sort of discussions and to try and put our point of view , our , our difficulties that we 're in , rather than erm , er , er , the narrower thing ? |
| 25 | The Report acknowledged the problems involved in determining the levels of difficulty and complexity in the work that has to be carried out in the social services and the barriers that exist to sharing this work among different kinds of personnel but concluded that ‘ nevertheless , some distinction in work levels is possible and necessary in our view , and this is most practicable where there is close teamwork and an emphasis on ‘ team responsibility' ’ for cases , ( pp. 137–8 ) . |
| 26 | He had heard stories of security forces planting illegal objects during searches of houses and hoped that his presence might help to safeguard against it . |
| 27 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 28 | On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated . |
| 29 | It is only through a continuous , open exchange of views and experience that libraries will make the optimum use of the varied powerful electronic media opportunities that will characterise information options of the 1990s . |
| 30 | I looked in a table of isotopes and found that the concentration of deuterium is 1.5 parts of 10 000 ( parts of ordinary water ) . |