Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DETAILED plans for a £4.63m leisure pool for Middlesbrough go before councillors this week . |
| 2 | And there is something about rail travel that is essentially Canadian : the US , deep down , was always a stagecoach society , wayward and unpredictable ; trains seem right for Canada , exciting but disciplined . |
| 3 | Commentators such as Kelly see this meeting as a ‘ watershed ’ where the reformers lost their case . |
| 4 | The real forces for change remain inside China . |
| 5 | Some of the more important suggestions for change include new committee structures to allow qualified civilian staff to have information and knowledge to question military assumptions ; new congressional committees to review the need for new weapons systems ; laws to force people to disclose any bureaucratic and financial interests when dealing with the military and to stop Pentagon officials taking top jobs with defence contractors : and , budgeting systems which would ask for every existing military programme to be fundamentally reappraised every year ( zero-based budgeting ) . |
| 6 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 7 | These efforts for change have been constantly undermined by economic crisis and war . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , therefore , constitutional authorities eager for change have pondered long and hard , not so much on how to introduce a Bill of Rights or a restraining written constitution ( that , after all , could be effected by a simple Commons majority backed by the usual formality of assent by Crown and Lords ) but on how to ensure that such a new settlement sticks and lies safe beyond the repealing vote of yet another simple Commons majority . |
| 9 | The projects chosen for support consider a number of issues which include accountability and social and economic efficiency , public and third part accountability , sectional interests and the general interest , and evidence of the efficacy of concertation in macro-economic policy . |
| 10 | Sometimes it is manifested in an exaggeration of previous dependency when problems arise ; sometimes , with strangers , excessive expectations of and need for support arise from these earlier relationships ( 'My husband waited on me hand and foot . ' ) |
| 11 | Certainly the primary reason why ideas about chaos have been seen as important for fluid dynamics is their potential relevance to turbulence . |
| 12 | Cardinal and Bishop call for N test ban |
| 13 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 14 | Change it as times change , but do not split it up |
| 15 | As times get harder , the Social Democrats may get their chance . |
| 16 | As times grow hard , general publishers are looking for new markets . |
| 17 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 18 | Conversely , circles passing through O invert into lines . |
| 19 | Comparisons between cultures become possible in the last stage . |
| 20 | In spite of difficulties — and of the fact that eight Anglican provinces already ordain women — official discussions about unity continue . |
| 21 | It is clear also that there can be an iteration back from any stage in the process to any previous one as views get modified during the change process . |
| 22 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 23 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclists have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
| 24 | Improved facilities for cyclists have started to happen at local level , largely because Lothian Region now has a 3-person cycle team , the existence of which was fought for , long and hard over many years . |
| 25 | However the specialist provision , the specialist palliative care remains the responsibility of the District Health Authority , and they have received extra funding for hospice work this year . |
| 26 | The nature of the correlations between O isotope ratios and Sr , Nd and Pb isotope ratios is not consistent with assimilation , and the correlation between O and Nd isotope ratios almost certainly could not result from weathering . |
| 27 | This will alternate between contracts put out to tender and listing companies looking for joint ventures , partners , distributors , agents and so on . |
| 28 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 29 | Like there such as housewives have always got no coal . |
| 30 | For daytime sleep Welsh babies were consistently said to need quiet , and to be placed in as peaceful a spot as possible , sometimes in another room , sometimes upstairs . |