Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to more general options for change , the Board referred to the possibilities of exclusive or semi-exclusive ‘ contracting , ’ and of ‘ franchising . ’ |
| 2 | Other employers referred to the advantages of employing search consultants for particularly sensitive appointments ; obviously a personnel director could not be expected to try and find his or her successor . |
| 3 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 4 | Moreover , the government 's decision to make SEMS responsible for developing minicomputers added to the problems of Cii-Honeywell Bull . |
| 5 | The women 's resistance movement crystallized around this refusal , drawing hostile comment from Alfred Evans , who praised the " shoulder to shoulder " solidarity with the ETS shown by his own members , while deploring the aid given to the resisters by " middle-class women who are on the warpath on behalf of the employers " . |
| 6 | The Privy Council agreed that the presidential pardon given to the Moslems by the then acting President Emmanuelle Carter in exchange for Robinson 's release remained valid . |
| 7 | His eyes dropped to the socks on her feet . |
| 8 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 9 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 10 | For example , a few informants responded to the questions with images of death : ‘ It ( the community ) would go dead ’ , ‘ The community would die ’ , and so forth . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 12 | These results demonstrate that P. anserina telomeres are composed of short tracks of T 2 AG 3 repeats and therefore , confirm the expected telomeric nature of DNA sequences added to the termini of linear plasmids after replication in P. anserina . |
| 13 | The figure related to the costs of the previous year 's bid defence against the hostile takeover attempt by Whyte & Mackay and had to be taken above the line as a result of the FRS 3 accounting rule . |
| 14 | Holding my juvenile neck bowed to the dunkings of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 16 | Rudduck ( 1991:138 ) draws attention to the weakness of some private , classroom-focused styles of practitioner enquiry : " What it ignores are the wider social and political frameworks , beyond the classroom and the school , that shape the parameters of education in ways that teachers , with their eyes drawn to the minutiae of their own practice , too often fail to see . |
| 17 | Sandra Cairns , for example , a shy girl with a grammar school background , has had her eyes opened to the realities of teaching groups of mixed ability and dealing with difficult situations . |
| 18 | In addition to this , the three tutors contributed to the courses of all PGCE students ( c. 200 ) M.Ed. students ( c. 40 students ) and B.Ed . |
| 19 | The less formalized form of religion brought to the Dales by john Wesley and his brother suited the collective personality of these people perfectly . |
| 20 | When he was hungry , he went to eat the left-overs thrown to the dogs outside the Anglesey farmhouse where he was staying with foster parents . |
| 21 | When he was hungry , he went to eat the left-overs thrown to the dogs outside the Anglesey farmhouse where he was staying with foster parents . |
| 22 | By the Tang dynasty , when ivory was reaching the Chinese court in sufficient quantities to feature among the presents sent to the rulers of Japan , where they are still preserved in the Shoso-in treasure-house at Nara , African as well as Indian sources were being drawn upon . |
| 23 | It is possible that , during the life of an arbitrage transaction , there is a change in the way the index is computed , for instance the identity of the shares in the index is altered , the mechanics of the index computation are changed or the weights attached to the shares in the–index computation are revised . |
| 24 | And more specifically , in this poem , the artist 's act of creativity is not some ‘ victory ’ , wresting beauteous elements out of the mire of the sub-conscious , but it occurs in instants of astute resignation , ‘ wise and abandoned ’ in Ian McEwan 's words , when the eternal act of creativity is acknowledged and the mind released to the currents of its progress . |
| 25 | That is , a person may treat extra income differently from main unemployment ( and supplementary ) benefits and expected earnings perhaps due to uncertainty attached to the receipts of some benefits ( Jenkins and Miller , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | The main summits each have a blue plaque attached to the railings at an appropriate point , so that as you walk the pavement , head turned to the south , you can put a name to your favourite mountain . |
| 27 | In spite of widespread attempts in recent years to make learning opportunities more accessible to adults from all sections of society and the development of special programmes tailored to the needs of specific groups , there are still many social groups which , for a variety of reasons , do not readily participate in post school educational activities . |
| 28 | Lord Hope considered that the contract related to the services to be provided by the valuer in preparation of the report , so s16 was applicable . |
| 29 | Donkeys , too , and because it was hot , with only the faintest breeze , many of the men had their wide-brimmed hats pushed to the backs of their heads , held there by the leather thongs that were really chin straps . |
| 30 | The north-facing slopes of the Montagne de Reims bore the brunt of the hostilities , yet the damage done to the vineyards during the Battle of the Marne was negligible compared with the inhuman slaughter and tragic loss of lives in the trenches . |