Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 2 | Health and Medical Organisations : All the leading British and international medical and health organisations that have studied the problem of smoking have called for a total ban by legislation on the promotion of tobacco . |
| 3 | Many kinds of caterpillar need to move to a firm support to moult their skin the twigs in the cage serve this purpose . |
| 4 | It is our intention to explore the hypothesis that public perceptions of marriage have shifted from an emphasis on its public/institutional to its private/relational aspects . |
| 5 | Lord Wilberforce has insisted that ‘ [ t ] here is no appeal on merits from management decisions to courts of law : nor will the courts of law assume to act as a kind of supervisory board over decisions within the powers of management honestly arrived at ’ . |
| 6 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 7 | Governors , teachers , parents and the earlier or later phases of education need to belong to a partnership which is managed directly for the benefit of children and students . |
| 8 | In the modern post-war period various adjustments within the national system of education have resulted in a succession of controversies regarding the role of English in a democratic society . |
| 9 | Traditionally , these aspects of processing have concentrated on an analysis of the way in which people understand and produce sentences . |
| 10 | Failures in the application of Functionalism have derived from an incorrect definition of ‘ live in ’ . |
| 11 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 12 | According to these sources , the Pope and the Secretariat of State intend to push for a firm public commitment to legalisation by Mr Gorbachev when he visits Italy and the Vatican at the end of November . |
| 13 | In 1896 , the minutes state ‘ that seven owners of property have applied for a supply of water from the Railway Company , which will necessitate the laying of 230 yards of 3 ’ cast iron main at an estimated cost of £55 , and there are several more houses along the proposed extension of the main which will probably soon want a supply' . |
| 14 | As with settlements , changes of status have occurred in a poorly-documented period — the tenth to twelfth centuries . |
| 15 | Although Stalin 's insistence on absolute control may in the fullness of time have evolved into an emphasis on ensuring ultimate control , Soviet leaders in the 1980s still operate within the essential security framework which Stalin bequeathed to them . |
| 16 | Many people throughout history have dreamed of a world without war . |
| 17 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 18 | Furthermore , they will know that such disturbances will force them to produce a level of output which is not the optimal one in the sense that it is not what they would in advance choose to produce at a price of P . |
| 19 | The high profile of biological theories and perspectives in gerontology have resulted in a perceived general association between age and ( ill ) health . |
| 20 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | I have seen students who were initially persuaded rather against their will , to use a computer for solving some statistical problem in psychology become addicted within a very short time . |
| 22 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 23 | The crust and the immediately underlying mantle created above the asthenosphere in fact appear to behave as a semi-rigid layer called the lithosphere . |
| 24 | Could I in fact have chosen in a manner more worthy of my dignity as a rational agent ? |
| 25 | In brief , developments in technology have resulted in a situation in which increasing amounts of information are stored and communicated electronically . |
| 26 | Since the early 1980s , the receipts from direct taxes on income have fluctuated around an average figure some 10% above those from indirect taxes on expenditure ; we have returned to the broad pattern of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 27 | Now that tax rates on income have fallen to a maximum of 40% , there is less incentive for individuals to buy low coupon gilts to take advantage of the tax-free capital appreciation . |
| 28 | But women having sex once a day with an HIV-infected man would on average become infected within a year , the study found . |
| 29 | ‘ When you get back to bed try to sleep for a bit . |
| 30 | Most models to date have consisted of an iron-porphyrin complex with various surrounding bulky groups . |