Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to have a statement from the Government so that my constituents and those of my friend and colleague the Hon. Member for Middlesbrough can have their minds put at rest . |
| 2 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 3 | But the biggest worry for Taylor must be Platt . |
| 4 | The biggest worry for Taylor will be first choice goalkeeper Chris Woods , who also missed yesterday 's exercises at Lilleshall with a groin strain . |
| 5 | Envelopes for donation can be had from Helen Chalmers or Theresa Scott or donations can be put in a plain envelope marked for BMS BIRTHDAY SCHEME . |
| 6 | Another early problem for PREPCOM will be finance . |
| 7 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 8 | Roh also indicated that the two Koreas ' plans for reunification could be combined in a three-stage formula , starting with the South Korean plan based on a Korean community , and proceeding to a confederal republic of Koryo , as proposed by the North . |
| 9 | Sir George Porter , in his reply declared that the allocation of these funds between projects must be the responsibility of the scientists . |
| 10 | Ritual might properly be considered a stage between this present section , on preparing the hearth , and the next , on lighting the fire , for U can be a means of enlivening a situation and of allowing positive energies to flow into the structure prepared . |
| 11 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 12 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 13 | Articles may reveal diversification plans which may mean a company suddenly becomes a potential customer ; advertisements for personnel may reveal plans for expansion , again suggesting potential new business . |
| 14 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 15 | Systems such as PREPLAN can provide the user with sound models of the behaviour patterns of fire and are therefore of enormous value in land-use planning . |
| 16 | I suggest that one solution for biologists will be to apply their expertise to the new science of socioecology , and the environment of the office . |
| 17 | In addition , the tubercle bacillus in patients with sarcoidosis may be present in the form without a cell wall as a slowly growing bacterial infection so agents directed toward the cell wall mycolic acid such as isoniazid would be ineffective . |
| 18 | Climbing through hedges can leave holes that animals can escape through . |
| 19 | If the rope breaks , the take off field should be within easy reach for a downwind landing , whereas a problem with the towplane 's engine usually means a field landing is almost inevitable . |
| 20 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 21 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 22 | The minute hard fruits are ingested with the lleshy perianth and later dispersed through defaecation , though only 32% of those passed through birds would germinate compared with 78% from the bats . |
| 23 | It follows that any proposal for change would be referred to customary ways of thinking , and this provides for the possibility of operational techniques which realize new ideas being devised as an extension of existing practices . |
| 24 | The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged . |
| 25 | His ideas for change would involve some regrouping of staff , and some need for training with new computer software . |
| 26 | If we were to do that , I would not rule out any particular proposed change to the role and structure of the district councils , but proposals for change would need to be likely to command widespread support and to provide an appropriate and fair role for both sides of the community . |
| 27 | Of course , the pressure for change may be resisted because birds with brightly coloured or greatly elongated feathers are vulnerable to predators . |
| 28 | Though the task of both understanding the situation and working for change may seem daunting , my experience of the Philippine health movement leaves me reassured . |
| 29 | More fundamentally , the view that pressure for change could have been indefinitely held in check by resolute repression overrates the resources available to unrepentant autocracy . |
| 30 | Asking for change can be likened to persuading someone to climb a mountain . |