Which preposition to use with units

of Occurrences 316%

Man is fast ceasing to be the unit of human society.

in Occurrences 181%

An agricultural unit in the uniform approved by the Woman's Land Army of America.

for Occurrences 35%

They did not anticipate, and could not have anticipated, the centripetal influences of steam and electricity which have woven the American people into an indissoluble unit for commercial and many other purposes.

from Occurrences 15%

" EVENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 21 TO The next report from the official chronicler at the front, dated September 24, was in part as follows: "The enemy is still maintaining himself along the whole front, and in order to do so is throwing into the fight detachments composed of units from the different formations, the active army, reserve, and landwehr, as is shown by the uniforms of prisoners recently captured.

on Occurrences 11%

The others were in various units on the French, Belgian, Italian and other fronts.

to Occurrences 10%

"Edwin, it's comehe's leaving meit" "Speaking of service, II guess I might have mentioned it before, mother, butbutwhen war was declared the other day, aa bunch of us fellows volunteered forfor the university unit to France, andwell, I'm accepted, motherto go.

by Occurrences 9%

You may have a passage before you and paraphrase it unit by unit.

in Occurrences 8%

SEE Otto, Henry J. HANCE, L. S. Units in social studies; the problems, people, and countries of North America, South America, our island possessions.

with Occurrences 8%

The first Red Cross Medical Unit with its full quota of sixty-five nurses completely equipped stood on European soil before an American soldier was there.

at Occurrences 5%

It has prevented a welding together of the people into one whole, has facilitated the rise of numerous political units at various times, and generally favoured the dissipation of the national strength, and militated against national organization and cohesion.

into Occurrences 5%

He said that when we went out to teach, we could be a sort of social cement, binding together all the different units into one coherent community, for that's what was needed in Canada, with its varied population.

as Occurrences 4%

The latter consider the external life and activity of the unit as an element in the collective external life of the communityas part of a common work; the former considers the unity as a free spiritual agency, an end for itselfwhose liberty is curtailed only by the claims of other like agencies, equal or greater.

than Occurrences 3%

Smaller national units than the 14 1-3 million Jews have been able to do Germany vital injury or service, and, while the Jews have no national state, their dispersion over the whole world, their high standard of culture, and their peculiar abilities lend them a weight that is worth more in the balance than many larger national masses which occupy a compact area of their own.

against Occurrences 3%

Moreover, the fact that the Teutons were all of a common religion undoubtedly held them much closer together, made them more merciful among themselves, more nearly a unit against the outside world.

up Occurrences 2%

It is only association that keeps the individual units up to the tension that civilization expects and demands.

above Occurrences 2%

change in direction of current = 132 units; and by deducting the impact 71 units, as previously measured, the new reaction corresponds with an increase of 61 units above the first impact.

within Occurrences 2%

In their domestic industry the Massachusetts people found by experience that "many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all"; and they were shrewd enough to apply the adage in keeping the scale of their industrial units within the frugal requirements of their lives.

per Occurrences 2%

This last figure will appear very high, but the fact must not be lost sight of that it is a question of poor gas, the net cost of which varies between one and two centimes per cubic meter, and the calorific power of which is but 1,487 heat units per cubic meter of constant volume, and supposing the steam condensed.

under Occurrences 2%

But the allies fully realized the danger of quarreling among themselves, which would have been much harder to avert if their armies had been acting together as a unit under a single command.

without Occurrences 1%

Therefore we cannot conceive any number without conceiving unity, which is the essential foundation of any possible number; nor can we conceive any repetition of units without conceiving unity itself, which is its basis.

behind Occurrences 1%

Hervey determined to force the issue at once, knowing that his other men would be a solid unit behind him.

among Occurrences 1%

He was a humble unit among twenty other slaves, chained to that modern substitute for the galleys, the desk; and, in a wicked bargain, he had contracted to give his life-blood from nine in the morning till six in the evening, for sixty pounds a year, with an occasional "rise," which, after thirty years' service, might end in your having reached a proud annual three hundred for the rest of your maimed and narrowed days.

over Occurrences 1%

The Chapters, with their five million members joined in three thousand units over the United States, are so many monuments to the ability of women for detail.

like Occurrences 1%

There is nothing so dead as a dissecting-room 'subject'; and the contemplation of the human body in the process of being quietly taken to piecesbeing resolved into its structural units like a worn-out clock or an old engine in the Mr. Rapper's yardis certainly not conducive to a vivid realisation of the doctrine of the resurrection.

after Occurrences 1%

German spies, anarchists, peace fanatics, and other agitators succeeded in destroying the morale of some of the Russian troops in Galicia, where a retreat became necessary when unit after unit refused to obey orders.

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