Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations .
2 She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week .
3 He at least has experience of dealing with the Press and the company have already allocated another member of the team for tomorrow 's race . ’
4 The British Geological Survey has experience of working in every part of Britain .
5 The tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly which causes harm by feeding off the tomato and leaving sugary deposits , disfiguring the fruit and causing it to go mouldy .
6 Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way .
7 It has been argued that the scheme is geared too closely to the needs of the industrial worker disabled by accident or disease in middle life , who , following full medical care and rehabilitation , needs help in returning to the routine of work , in adjusting to disability and in finding new skills within his or her capacity .
8 This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy .
9 That she sometimes has bouts of overeating in no way contradicts this assertion : after each one she is overcome by self-disgust and depression , and her sense of futility is confirmed .
10 Debbi was like ‘ yes , I 'm completely miserable but what do you mean , break up the band ? ’ ’ says Susanna before turning into a hippy .
11 Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age .
12 The past is often reflected by something called documentary drama , which uses improvisation before arriving at a script in its final state .
13 The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments .
14 Whether one sees creativity in accounting as a virtue or not , it is a natural part of the tradition of flexibility in rule making ( a tradition that includes an unwritten constitution and common law , among other things ) : detailed and specific rights and obligations are anathema .
15 Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild .
16 ESBCD 187 ) is a 32-track , three-CD set that includes songs like Messin' With The Kid , Tattoo 'd Lady , Bull Frog Blues , Calling Card , Shadow Play , Shin Kickers , Hoodoo Blues and many more …
17 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
18 Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee .
19 ( 3 ) Ito incorrectly explains why our model requires sites of learning in the vestibular inputs to both the cerebellum and the brain stem .
20 ‘ ( a ) the name of any person is without sufficient cause entered in or omitted from a company 's register of members , or ( b ) default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member , the person aggrieved or any member of the company , or the company may apply to the court for rectification of the register . ’
21 This means that there is no significant reordering of the chain conformation when crystallization takes place after cooling from the melt , which would be required if a regularly folded chain structure was to be constructed in the lamellae .
22 She says he throws things without thinking about the damage it does .
23 It also prevents discoloration of icing by the cake if it is to be kept for a while .
24 Similarly , a plate with a slight rim prevents food from sliding over the edge too easily .
25 Under President Islam Karimov , the government seems intent on returning to the ways of the Soviet Union , or to even worse models in the country 's more distant past : the emirs of Bukhara , whose lands are now part of Uzbekistan , once maintained a minaret of death , from which prisoners were flung alive on market days .
26 ( 3 ) Where a licensing board gives reasons in writing at the request of a party to the hearing , the board shall give copies of those reasons to all other parties to the hearing .
27 He sets objectives without yielding to the latest fashion for doing so .
28 Matthew follows Mark with regard to the timing but omits the reference to the festival of Unleavened Bread . )
29 looks after , I , I 'm not sure exactly what he does , but he does sort of look after the Welsh Office 's own traffic counting programme .
30 I mean , he does sort of ask about the er
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