Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of legislative proposals , lobbying the assembly is more important in the United States , especially for groups wishing to exercise a negative or veto power to stop a proposal rather than have a new proposal passed . |
| 2 | For schools looking to develop a whole-school approach this diagram can provide a starting point for each department to articulate its position and , from these deliberations , find and build common bridges across subject departments to meet individual needs . |
| 3 | Brazier 's history of the EEG can not be recommended too highly for readers wishing to read a full and authoritative account of the early days . |
| 4 | This turned out to be a preliminary exploration , because we returned after Christmas intending to spend a further 3 weeks here , and ended up staying 7 weeks . |
| 5 | Workers at Oxford University 's Research Laboratory for Archaeology decided to try a different tack . |
| 6 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |
| 7 | With the simple voting framework , the voter has to form a judgement about the trade-offs between different objectives , for example , the level of taxes needed to finance a proposed spending programme . |
| 8 | Be this as it may , the church and parish of Temple continued to have a curious history . |
| 9 | In many societies , the classification and labelling of objects appears to indicate a close relationship between artefact and particular function , and the labels ‘ kitchen chair ’ or ‘ fryingpan ’ in Britain may be matched , for example , by an equivalent close relationship between pots and their labels in Nepal ( Birmingham 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Evaluating more than two biopsy samples leads to an alignment in the number of crypts required to achieve a certain precision . |
| 11 | When Jakobson asserted that ‘ If the science of literature wants to become a real science it will have to recognize ‘ the device ’ as its sole ‘ hero ’ ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 37 ) , it was because he was concerned with the differential nature of literariness . |
| 12 | Non-fundholders wait ten months for some outpatient appointments , fundholders can bring the consultant to the surgery to see the patient within a couple of weeks ; this of course helps to get a quicker place on the operation waiting list . |
| 13 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |
| 14 | In addition , however , this type of text tends to favour a high level of lexical repetition , and so the Arabic noun for ‘ parties ’ , which is marked for duality , is repeated even in instances where no ambiguity would arise from using a pronoun or pronominal suffix . |
| 15 | David , 38 , with his brother Andy and fishing partners Kev Berry and Robin Clark have spent dozens of hours trying to take a big predator from the water . |
| 16 | Lorne Golub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his colleagues have found that low doses of doxycycline seem to have a direct effect on collagenase , at least in the laboratory . |
| 17 | The heterogeneity of labour and the job-specificity of skills tend to create a strong linkage between workers and their employers and , in some cases , cause firms to fill as many of their vacancies as possible by means of internal promotions . |
| 18 | Prospective employers are looking for suitably qualified people , normally graduates — not necessarily law graduates — who show the kind of skills needed to make a successful contribution as a solicitor to the work of a local authority : the ability to analyse a problem and to communicate effectively , flexibility , and the ability to get on well with other members of a team . |
| 19 | THE TODAY-sponsored team of climbers hopes to make a unique dash to the summit of Everest within a week . |
| 20 | Charles had taken over the role of president determined to make a positive contribution . |
| 21 | Only if some people , ‘ because of their special circumstances — because they are crippled or lack talents prized in the market , or for some such reason — end up below the minimum standard of living required to lead a decent , self-fulfilling life at all ’ ( Dworkin , 1978a , pp. 244 , 258 ) would they have a right to ‘ a minimum standard ’ , even at the expense of the general welfare . |
| 22 | As a result , we do not share the optimism expressed in the Policy Issues Paper that the policies proposed in MPG6 to encourage greater efficiency , increased recycling , use of waste , and a shift in the pattern of supply , will achieve those goals in sufficient degree to ‘ bear down on demand and make important contributions to minimising the extent of extraction needed to provide a steady and adequate supply of aggregates for the construction industry ’ ( PIP , 6.23 ) . |
| 23 | As a result , we do not share the optimism expressed in the Policy Issues Paper that the policies proposed in MPG6 to encourage greater efficiency , increased recycling , use of waste , and a shift in the pattern of supply , will achieve those goals in sufficient degree to ‘ bear down on demand and make important contributions to minimising the extent of extraction needed to provide a steady and adequate supply of aggregates for the construction industry ’ ( PIP , 6.23 ) . |
| 24 | Hardly the type of perception designed to elicit a relaxed orientation . |
| 25 | But this second act of violence proves to have a healing effect . |
| 26 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 27 | A former world champion who had narrowly missed a second championship , he had a position of huge popularity in an important market for Marlboro ( Brazil ) , exactly the kinds of characteristics needed to develop a new car , and fitted in temperamentally very well with the racing ‘ philosophy ’ of the McLaren boss Edward Everett Mayer — known on the circuit as ‘ the Wiener ’ due to his squeaky voice , short stature and constant presence . |
| 28 | Publication of the report comes as the Church of Scotland prepares to confront a difficult financial position at the General Assembly . |
| 29 | He was the last king of England to attempt to create a new royal forest — the forest of the honour of Hampton Court , established in 1539 near his new palace of Nonsuch near Epsom . |
| 30 | The Future Development of Auditing deserves to provoke a fundamental debate . |