Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 2 | Darlington Council has given permission for Conder Projects to develop an office block on Russell Street car park just outside the ring road halving its total spaces . |
| 3 | The tribeswoman will doubtless have deep feelings for her children and be ambitious for their success in life , and affection and admiration for animals has had a place in all societies , even in that of Ancient Rome . |
| 4 | The Countryside Commission for Scotland has published a report recommending that four national parks should be created to prevent further damage to mountain areas . |
| 5 | A team of experts hopes to create a blueprint for the development of countries moving from Communist control to the free market . |
| 6 | Without doubt , however , the fall of the barriers between 2.1 million west Berliners , 1.3 million east Berliners and almost another million people in the surrounding area of Brandenburg has recreated a metropolis with immense economic pulling power . |
| 7 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 8 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 11 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 12 | This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism , fluidity and reach of adolescence , its true pretentiousness . |
| 13 | For sociological grouping of religions has encouraged an attitude of defining each over against others . |
| 14 | Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her |
| 15 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 16 | A team of researchers has completed a tour of more than four hundred public houses across the country . |
| 17 | 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out . |
| 18 | CONFERENCE : The Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Greenwich has organised a conference on construction opportunities in Russia . |
| 19 | Its wholly-owned Pick Systems Ltd of Moscow has signed a contract with the Russian Tax Department through the commercial arm of the Russian Ministry of Finance to provide Pick software and development services to computerise Russian tax collections . |
| 20 | Mineral reconnaissance by the BGS north-east of Aberfeldy has located a number of geochemical and geophysical anomalies in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation around Glenshee ( Pease and others , 1986 ) where Zn-Pb-Ba mineralisation has been found ( MRP 88 ) . |
| 21 | The Sultan of Brunei has received a doctorate from Oxford University . |
| 22 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 23 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 24 | This means that because it was an explanatory one , his theory of religion has retained an interest long after later more empiricist studies have lost scientific interest . |
| 25 | The second pitch of Syringe has lost a hold and is now 6a ( same E grade ) . |
| 26 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 27 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 28 | In preparation for Cuba 's fourth Party Congress on 10 October , the Ecumenical Council of Cuba has submitted a document asking permission for churches and religious organisations to have much greater access to the mass media . |
| 29 | Bookshelf is primarily Word 2.0a with a CD-ROM containing a collection of reference works comprising a dictionary of quotations , The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1992 , an atlas , dictionary and a thesaurus . |
| 30 | I WAS rather intrigued to read that the Church of England intends to launch a TV advertising campaign next month . |