Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Opportunities to take seriously such issues as girls and science or the merits of negotiated assessment , or to acquire skills in the areas of active tutorial work or special educational needs are few and far between , and often have to be carved out of evenings and weekends . |
2 | The Pleasure Dome is the host for Dave 's blend of up-front dance and indie tunes , where the sounds are likely to include ditties from the likes of Happy Mondays , The Charlatans , World Of Twist , 808 State , A Tribe Called Quest and The KLF , interspersed with a splattering of classic House tunes . |
3 | The document itself was not privileged and to that extent the other side was entitled to see part of the materials with the brief . |
4 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
5 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
6 | It is to include research into the techniques of sustainable timber extraction and the pharmaceutical and genetic potential of the South American country 's forest resources , centred on a newly-established scientific reserve of 3,400 square kilometres , close to the Brazilian border . |
7 | I want to knee David in the bollocks at least once today ? |
8 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
9 | There were also reports of clashes between troops and localized vigilante groups established to provide protection against the activities of Duvalierist supporters . |
10 | The half-point is awarded for techniques which are considered to meet 90% of the requirements for a full point score . |
11 | They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies . |
12 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
13 | You have to accept responsibility for the fruits of your actions , in the scientific field as elsewhere . |
14 | Originally the Housing Bill allowed the Secretary of State to impose HATs against the wishes of tenants who simply had the right to be informed , but the opposition to this proposal was widespread and sustained . |
15 | The trainee , who wishes to remain anonymous , said : ‘ I had hoped to obtain copies of the results of the survey and a sample questionnaire . |
16 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
17 | There is a need too to find solutions to the problems of older residential areas , for these are generally less safe than new ones as a consequence of their land uses , building densities , street patterns and traffic composition . |
18 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
19 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
20 | It is said that there are exceptions to this rule and that the following persons can sue for trespass although they had not possession — ( a ) A trustee against any third person who commits a trespass to trust chattels in the hands of the beneficiary . |
21 | Their symbolic political struggle is in defence of a cultural order in which there exist strong moral rules to provide solutions to the problems of the appropriate constituents and roles of the family . |
22 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
23 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
24 | ‘ We won the £25,000 contract in competitive bidding through the Overseas Development Agency as part of the UK Know-How fund which has been set up to provide assistance to the countries of Eastern Europe . |
25 | Pinochet , C.-in-C. of the Army , speaking before 1,500 officers at Santiago 's Military Academy on March 29 , described the report as having no " historical or legal validity " and opposed government plans to provide compensation for the families of the victims of repression . |
26 | Coupled with attempts to provide compensation for the victims of crime , they represent an attractive package to a public deeply concerned with crime . |
27 | When that day came , perhaps the tragic story of a love-sick young girl trying to find solace in the arms of her lover would be laid to rest forever . |
28 | His intention is to establish continuity between the issues of the Vietnam War and those of the recombinant-DNA controversy , especially a pervasive mood of doubt and suspicion about the social benefits of science and technology that were characteristic of the establishment thinking then . |
29 | The usual tactic was to march troops across the enemy 's territory , plundering and looting ; to take fortified places if the task was easy ; to obtain allies among the lords of the locality ; and to retreat without fighting a battle if at all possible — in effect an application to a wider canvas of the some technique of warfare which had earlier made castellans formidable in the immediate environs of their castles . |
30 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |