Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 11 October we find local party authorities demanding from peasants the delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye for maintaining ten children on the Volga . |
| 2 | As far as the former is concerned , adult educators saw the emphasis on home/school links and parental involvement in schools as an opportunity for involving working-class parents in relevant education meeting a real need , i.e. their children 's education . |
| 3 | The fund view is flexible enough to provide the opportunity for providing this kind of ‘ additional ’ information . |
| 4 | 1.3.4 Other groups such as the Scottish Sports Council and the Scottish Health Education Group saw the opportunity for providing some form of national accreditation for health and fitness training , sports coaching and community sports leadership . |
| 5 | In consequence , it is clearly important that the average constituent/consumer has ample opportunity for expressing any dissatisfaction with decisions which have been taken in relation to them . |
| 6 | In 1979 , a major reorganisation of the County Library Service for Young People and Education in Essex provided the opportunity for effecting considerable improvements in services to the County 's schools in consultation with the Education Department . |
| 7 | The first opportunity for exercising primatial authority in Wales had arisen during the vacancy at Canterbury shortly before Anselm became archbishop . |
| 8 | The process provides a good opportunity for correlating economic change with patterns of crime . |
| 9 | Surely this should be an opportunity for giving serious consideration to and providing serious answers on this major issue . |
| 10 | When Nicholas Logsdail opened his gallery 's Bell Street extension at the beginning of the season , he created an opportunity for showing different artists in their own spaces . |
| 11 | I sincerely hope that the hon. Gentleman would pay tribute to the Ministry of Defence for owning more sites of special scientific interest than anyone other than the national parks . |
| 12 | Indeed Dearlove ( 1979 , p. 245 ) maintains that part of the case for reorganizing local government in 1972 and creating larger units was ‘ to make local government more functional for dominant interests ’ ( that is , less accessible to working-class representation ) . |
| 13 | Here there is a good case for devoting social funds to retraining programmes and the development of new enterprises ( public sector or cooperative ) on a scale properly commensurate with the problem , rather than trying to ‘ force feed ’ the industry with investment funds . |
| 14 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 15 | Since then , the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie ( Mr. Worthington ) has made a persuasive case for including such provisions in the Bill . |
| 16 | Although there were , of course , counter arguments , it was not until a rapidly declining population became an acknowledged fact that the case for exclud-ing certain groups from family allowances lost its force . |
| 17 | Rates had very low administration costs ; hence the case for reintroducing some form of property tax . |
| 18 | Bob Morgan , spokesman for education on the Liberal Democrat side , do you see that there is a case for abolishing local control of schools and having the schools under the Department of Education ? |
| 19 | Although the case for dividing indecent assault into two degrees is not overwhelming — it would be stronger if the maximum penalty were higher than ten years — there would undoubtedly be certain advantages to be derived from so doing . |
| 20 | Therefore while the emphasis on infrastructure projects within EC regional aid has in general been much reduced , there must still be a strong case for maintaining such aid to peripheral areas . |
| 21 | With the pollsters having completely lost credibility , I believe there is a strong case for banning all polls from the time an election ( or by-election ) is called , to when voting actually takes place . |
| 22 | What they do not do is to make the case for charging token sums to a small minority of users . |
| 23 | On a general revision , there might well be a case for extending that distance in view of the development of the central area which has taken place since the six miles was first established . |
| 24 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 25 | If the majority of identifiable allophones can occur as a result of coarticulation both across word boundaries and word-internally , the case for introducing this kind of phonetic representation is considerably weakened . |
| 26 | I have already argued the case for having public examinations of some kind for all pupils at school , for the benefit of the outside world . |
| 27 | ( There is a good case for making all adjustments on this line only . ) |
| 28 | It seems to me that it ought to be our policy that we ought to try and locate people who go into these sorts of residencies as close to the people who will be concerned for their welfare as possible erm and that therefore there would be a strong case for making that sort of exception in those cases . |
| 29 | It considered , however , that ‘ there is no academic case for making special arrangements for Wales ’ , given the similarity of the educational system in Wales to that in England . |
| 30 | ANOTHER prop in the British government 's case for retaining some lead in petrol gave way yesterday . |