Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , the involvement of experienced personnel managers is invaluable in activities such as completing application forms , writing letters of application and attending mock interviews . |
| 2 | She knew all about demanding parents . |
| 3 | Before leaving a cowed Scotland , Edward rode about demanding oaths of submission from all the magnates in the land . |
| 4 | SCARBOROUGH 'S version of New Faces worked well for experimenting manager McHale at the McCain Stadium on Saturday . |
| 5 | The Chamberlain Act also provided for subsidising slum clearance schemes . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 7 | The 23-year-old 's weight has fallen by more than 3st through eating difficulties — and she needs sustained medical treatment . |
| 8 | The same Unit ( SPRU ) carried out a later study ( Martin , Irvine & Crouch 1985 ) which involved using research indicators for scientific choice , as earlier defined , for international comparisons , and also for institutional choice between competing UK research groups in two different research fields — Ocean Current studies , and Protein Crystallography . |
| 9 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 10 | The individual , both male and female , is responsible for mastering emotions and the poisonous creative powers within the person which come from the crystal boxes of the Tianawa gods ( see below ) . |
| 11 | This has greatly reduced their potential for instigating change . |
| 12 | The man responsible for instigating change was Robin Darwin who had taken over as Rector on 1 January 1948 . |
| 13 | The Pope and clergy were criticised for instigating men to refuse full allegiance to the civil power and for being unwilling to submit to the jurisdiction of civil courts . |
| 14 | Charged with meting out rights and privileges for all beings and entities at the time of Creation , he carried a small leather pouch on one hip containing the charms for immortality and reincarnation , while a large stone bucket to his other side contained materials for instigating death and decay . |
| 15 | If what distinguishes software is something non-physical , and software is in some sense irreducibly abstract , then it falls outside the mandate of material culture and a conscientious museum curator might have qualms about mobilising resources to acquire and preserve it . |
| 16 | THREE Glasgow men jailed last week for four years for bringing hashish into Spain have been released because of the time they spent awaiting trial , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 18 | We will not for the moment consider the suitability of the procedures for bringing complaints of breach of duty to court , though the existence of well-informed plaintiffs with standing and motivation to sue is clearly an essential part of any system of control that is ultimately dependent on judicial sanctions . |
| 19 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 20 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 21 | John Allen was respected by leaders in all walks of drama education and theatre and consequently was able to give a great deal of energy to getting opposing groups to talk to each other , so that , for instance , in 1970 , he was responsible for bringing teacher-trainers in drama and drama advisers together at a conference in Exeter . |
| 22 | In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another . |
| 23 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |
| 24 | If Hastings ' performance did much to underline his candidacy for the Lions captaincy — no one else of his individual stature has a similar gift for bringing players together on and off the field — it also made a significant contribution in bringing the new Murrayfield to life . |
| 25 | Whoever decided that Sound City '92 should be held in Norwich deserves a good pat on the back ( a knife would be better — IM ) for bringing decency and respect to the East of England . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone in the area knew him and followed him everywhere , as he was well known for bringing provisions and medical supplies . |
| 27 | The scope for bringing influence to bear and exerting power , in the best sense of the word , is probably greater at midlife than at any other time . |
| 28 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 29 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |
| 30 | The only requirement for bringing software under LIFESPAN control is that each source file ( except for those in the FOREIGN-SET ) must contain a module header . |