Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of continuing professional development has been fostered by the Board of Fellows in its recent work and members should now keep records of all their reading , lectures , seminars and conferences attended in order to support applications they may wish to make in due course for upgrading to fellowship . |
| 2 | Such mutual sexual activity in creating relationships between males could also amount to a form of collaborative support in obtaining of harems . |
| 3 | This often means that you 've studied the subject at a lower level before coming to college — and have done reasonably well at it . |
| 4 | He had very little experience of dealing with situations like this . |
| 5 | Other respondents with little experience in looking at art reflected a similar , although less restricted , approach . |
| 6 | ‘ The thing you often see with young men is that they have had very little experience in dealing with people . |
| 7 | In those days , the road leaving Tomdoun was the only way over to Cluanie and Glen Shiel from the south : it crossed the River Loyne and climbed over an intervening ridge before descending to Cluanie . |
| 8 | It also voided any disclaimer or limitation of the owner 's obligation of due diligence in regard to seaworthiness , or in equipping the vessel . |
| 9 | Despite a 15-year ban on trading in rhino horn , numbers of black rhinos has fallen from around 65,000 in 1977 to 2,500 ; numbers are falling at the rate of 28 per cent a year . |
| 10 | Langer , recently a father for the third time , has prepared for his 1993 European debut by skiing in Utah , and practising in Florida . |
| 11 | Previously a Field Officer for SCOTVEC , has extensive experience of working with centres throughout Scotland . |
| 12 | The club wants to develop an existing small-scale permission for gliding at Ridgewell by erecting permanent buildings , increasing the area of the runway and adding other on-site facilities . |
| 13 | It was a refreshing change from jeering in Jamaica , and the general depression after the World Cup . |
| 14 | Most students have little difficulty in adapting to university life , and any problems they may encounter can almost certainly be dealt with by Student Services , which provides information and assistance in the following areas : accommodation , counselling , health , child-care services and income support . |
| 15 | Most students have little difficulty in adapting to university life , and any problems they may encounter can almost certainly be dealt with by Student Services , which provides information and assistance in the following areas : accommodation , counselling , health , child-care services and income support . |
| 16 | But hysteric she was , subject to the fatal political weakness of collapsing in time of trouble . |
| 17 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 18 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 19 | After that kind of stonewalling from officials , it was an enormous relief to be doing something positive to help John . |
| 20 | He adds , ‘ it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the government has taken power : ( a ) to set for each authority what is to be regarded as the ‘ needed ’ level of spending , ( b ) to enforce that level of spending by manipulation of grant' . |
| 21 | ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’ |
| 22 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 23 | The effect of the mutations on binding of CytR parallels the effect of the mutations in vivo , i.e. the -72 and -73 mutations which have the largest effect on regulation and titration in vivo also exhibit the largest effect on binding of CytR in vitro . |
| 24 | It is one of the arguments of this book that the metalinguistic practice of talking about language is as susceptible to feminist theoretical discussion as any other kind of linguistic practice , and just as important . |
| 25 | Linked to the mobility allowance is a voluntary organization called Motability , which helps disabled people make the best use of their allowance to acquire a private car by leasing on hire purchase . |
| 26 | When SSAP 15 , Accounting for Deferred Tax , was issued in 1978 ( and indeed when it was revised in 1985 ) , the normal practice in accounting for pensions and other post-retirement benefits was to adopt a cash basis , and consequently there were few significant deferred tax implications . |
| 27 | When SSAP 15 was originally issued in 1978 ( and indeed when it was revised in 1985 ) the normal practice in accounting for pensions and other post-retirement benefits was to adopt a cash basis , and consequently there were few significant deferred tax implications . |
| 28 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 29 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 30 | Above : standing by Michael Jayston in Stand by Your Man ; below left ; showing Patience in Mrs Worthington 's Daughter ; below right : Michael Gambon with his greatest fan in Looking for Señor Duende . |