Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 4 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 5 | This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism , fluidity and reach of adolescence , its true pretentiousness . |
| 6 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 7 | This means that because it was an explanatory one , his theory of religion has retained an interest long after later more empiricist studies have lost scientific interest . |
| 8 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 9 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 10 | Bookshelf is primarily Word 2.0a with a CD-ROM containing a collection of reference works comprising a dictionary of quotations , The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1992 , an atlas , dictionary and a thesaurus . |
| 11 | Although the quoted example of exercise happens to require a describing of appropriate actions , some exercises place the participant firmly in the ‘ dramatic playing ’ mode . |
| 12 | We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent . |
| 13 | The language of psychoanalysis does provide a means for communicating about conscious and unconscious emotion in such circumstances . |
| 14 | The increase in concentration of insulin seems to force a response from the slow or faulty system . |
| 15 | The English translation of this book The Practice of Aromatherapy has become a classic for aromatherapists . |
| 16 | And for many of Britain 's best known companies the cost of law has become an issue in a way it never was before . |
| 17 | A Supreme Court ruling in the case of Minnick v Mississippi on Dec. 3 unexpectedly extended the right of criminal suspects to have a lawyer present when questioned by the police . |
| 18 | A SCOTTISH haulage firm facing a week 's suspension by the Department of Transport has won a stay of execution . |
| 19 | The process of recovery involves making an inventory of one 's previous wrongs and defects of characters , admitting them to one 's self , to God and to another human being and making amends to those one has harmed , except when to do so would injure them or others . |
| 20 | Who can say whether the spirit of nature does possess a beauty or an importance greater than the purely physical or rather mechanical objects ? |
| 21 | For Julie Crew what should be a time of joy has become a time of pain and misery . |
| 22 | This type of business has expanded a lot in recent years , largely as a result of the expansion of the Sunday colour supplements . |
| 23 | While the morphology of the single crystals grown from dilute solutions may be more regular and resemble the first model , for polymers that are crystallized from the melt ( and this is by far the more important procedure technically ) the mass of evidence tends to favour a form of the switchboard model . |
| 24 | They preserve a great number of preludes and dances ( many by ‘ N.C. ’ , supposedly Nicolaus Cracoviensis , ‘ Mikolaj z Krakowa ’ ) , organ service-music , transcriptions of Josquin and his contemporaries , chansons by Janequin ( ‘ La Guerre' of course ) , Sermisy , Sandrin , a little Senfl ( including ‘ Ave rosa ’ ) , but only three or four German songs by minor composers — though the monk of Cracow does include a transcription of Mahu 's ‘ Ein' feste Burg ’ which had appeared in Rhaw 's Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge only four years before . |
| 25 | The Open University offers several educational post-experience options leading to a Diploma in educational Studies , and Dundee College of Education has pioneered a correspondence course in teaching geography to suit local need . |
| 26 | Newcastle University 's School of Education has won a £15,000 Audit Commission contract to study pupils ' attainment at GCSE . |
| 27 | By contrast , the image of woman does undergo a transformation within the aesthetic of the New Sculpture . |
| 28 | The Department of Environment has produced a leaflet for businesses that introduces the provisions of the duty of care for waste under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 . |
| 29 | His passionate belief that technology is a tool to be used with imagination for the benefit of mankind has inspired a generation of designers of buildings of all disciplines ’ . |
| 30 | The recent change of policy has unfrozen a flood of music by younger figures who have not undergone similar cultural repression , though the conditions of their work remain poignant and precarious . |