Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving the Scheme they would apply their acquired learning and confidence to work experience or to a commissioned project . |
| 2 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 3 | The civil service provides its staff with fewer incentives to encourage efficiency than in the private sector ( where bonus , commissions , ‘ perks ’ etc. are often widespread ) , a position unlikely to be altered much by limited experimentation with merit pay and the like . |
| 4 | His farming having failed , Smith decided to try journalism and after a brief period as correspondent on a provincial newspaper , he went to London to work as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | There is in this respect a total difference between Community legislation and British primary legislation , in respect of which there is no obligation to state reasons and at the present time no practice of doing so . |
| 6 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 7 | Now what 's happened the problem would be for your children , who are faced with erm building societies and banks who are red hot to sell endowments because of the better commission value to the company , and the , the endowments to make them competitive have actually been structured so that it 's the minimum premium , the minimum possible premium . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I just draw out from the bank a spending allowance for the week — to pay mum back , to cover essentials and for a few little extras . |
| 9 | The judge started to discuss figures as to the wasted costs . |
| 10 | This general formation is widely evident from the 1770s , and is directly connected with the most progressive elements of the industrial bourgeoisie , with their attachments to free enquiry and to a rational science . |
| 11 | The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was compared in infected and non-infected patients at stage IV ( Figure ) ; earlier stages were excluded to avoid bias because of the small proportion of infected patients at stages II/III . |
| 12 | Wartime conditions had robbed players of the incentive to win promotion because of the uncertain future of League football , and caused a sharp fall in gates which made it virtually impossible to spend money on improving the team . |
| 13 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 14 | The first figures hint that armchair fans are n't rushing out to buy dishes because of the new football contract . |
| 15 | Estimators often work against considerable time pressures and look for ways to win jobs and at the same time make a profit . |
| 16 | Bids are by invitation to discount houses and to the clearing banks by this latter method . |
| 17 | This permits the use of probability theory to compare the nature and range of outcomes of activities and help to form judgements as to the best course of action in given circumstances . |
| 18 | This permits the use of probability theory to compare the nature and range of outcomes of activities and help to form judgements as to the best course of action in given circumstances . |
| 19 | To what extent this applies to field conditions and to the unmanaged biosphere is as yet unclear . |
| 20 | ‘ We do send crime prevention officers to halls of residence to give advice but at the same time we do not want to alarm them as the number of street offences is not increasingly dramatically . ’ |
| 21 | Its analysis was straightforwardly Keynesian and in that sense was revolutionary , but its actual proposals were weak , reflecting the government 's desire on the one hand to pre-empt Beveridge and on the other not to commit the coalition to detailed policies . |
| 22 | I chose not to use swimfeeders because of the patchy carpet of algae on the bottom . |
| 23 | ‘ She did not wish to press charges because of the prominent position she and her husband hold in London society . ’ |
| 24 | Several other people had arranged to share cars and after a good deal of last-minute discussion and instructions , they were at last on their way . |
| 25 | Developers hired murderers to exterminate Indians while in the coastal cities a pro-Indian movement gathered strength and by 1910 an ‘ Indian Protection Service ’ was formed . |
| 26 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 27 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 28 | In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled . |
| 29 | However , an effective competition policy needs power to control mergers because of the serious damage they may inflict on competition . |
| 30 | The 1947 Act permitted , not required , air pollution control districts to be set up and it introduced a programme to control pollution but at the same time keep industry in business as usual . |