Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 2 | Work eligible for grant aid includes environmental improvements , landscaping , additional facilities and bilingual signs . |
| 3 | The introduction of the All Ireland League competition two years ago gave the Irish club scene a much-needed boost but the hoped for flow-on effect to top level rugby has yet to be realised . |
| 4 | The differences between computer systems impose artificial limits upon the information that can be accessed . |
| 5 | The last round of bidding for field reactivation aroused considerable interest , while a number of major gas and heavy oil projects are gathering pace . |
| 6 | The broadening market for computer equipment suits Japanese manufacturers down to the ground . |
| 7 | However , you really need the camcorder feature known as exposure lock to make this effect work properly . |
| 8 | Some local authorities keep temporary beds for assessment purposes to forestall permanent admissions arising out of crises ; this allows for reflection and mobilisation of other services . |
| 9 | Che Guevara , representing Cuba at the OAS conference at punta del Este in Uruguay , instigated a meeting with the US delegate Richard Goodwin , who gave a full account of the conversation in a memo for president Kennedy dated 22 August 1961 ( ( US Declassified , 1978 , 303A ) . |
| 10 | It is possible for conspiracy theorists to criticize both aspects of this simplicity without discarding the basic notion that there is a Jewish/Zionist conspiracy . |
| 11 | The government fixed the social rate of interest or test discount rate at 8 per cent and urged nationalized industries to undertake explicit present value calculations for investment decisions using this discount rate . |
| 12 | Plus , get your foot down … a chance for car lovers to taste REAL speed . |
| 13 | Silent battles are constantly waging as coral colonies fight each other for living space and , as with fish , every species of invertebrate has its predators and many of these are other invertebrates . |
| 14 | Such increases can be achieved without additional visits in the routine immunisation schedule , and would also provide an added incentive for programme managers to ensure high rates of compliance at the 6 or 9 month visit for measles vaccination . |
| 15 | Examples of strategic variables that might be used for entry deterrence include physical capital investment or R&D to reduce costs , pre-emptive patenting , and manipulation of demand conditions by advertising or brand proliferation ( for a sceptical analysis see Smiley , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It is common for club players to take anabolic steroids . |
| 17 | IMF hopes for quota boost to aid Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | It was not until August 1987 that the Government made it mandatory for blood banks to test donated blood , arguing that imported AIDS diagnosis kits could not be afforded . |
| 19 | When the system worked at its best it realized the highest hopes : " The opportunity for college directors to purchase low-cost systems geared to institutional management , as well as to LEA or national data requirements , created a significant opportunity to improve strategic , tactical and operational management . |
| 20 | Three people died when tornadoes howled through the sunshine state 's west coast — only six weeks after Hurricane Andrew killed 40 people and flattened thousands of homes south of Miami . |
| 21 | The ten boys were patently enjoying their notoriety , though , and after lunch-time Toby decided that sympathy had better , give way to a brisk , enough-of-this approach if the boarding block was ever to return to normal . |
| 22 | When Solidarity tabled a motion of no confidence after wage talks involving civil-service workers had broken down , assorted former communists , nationalists and anti-communists seized their chance to embarrass the government while showing support for embattled workers . |
| 23 | This would involve staying behind after office hours to empty some bins and hoover around a bit . |
| 24 | As well as the absence of a common opposition policy for home rule making such pacts unachievable , Mr Wallace is anxious that the party does not lose sight of its objective of a federal United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 26 | The Seventh Directive ( 83/349/EEC ) , which dealt mainly with the requirement for parent undertakings to prepare consolidated accounts , was implemented by the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 27 | Claiming a widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of education being provided by LEA schools , and promising greater opportunities for parent power to preserve local accountability , it was able to seize control over the curriculum with considerable public support . |
| 28 | All patients seen for check endoscopy had good control of symptoms at that time . |
| 29 | The nanokernel acts like a bus and can move between operating systems to run different systems simultaneously on different processors . |
| 30 | The land is used intensively mainly for dairy herds producing fresh milk . |