Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 2 | Work eligible for grant aid includes environmental improvements , landscaping , additional facilities and bilingual signs . |
| 3 | The introduction of the All Ireland League competition two years ago gave the Irish club scene a much-needed boost but the hoped for flow-on effect to top level rugby has yet to be realised . |
| 4 | The last round of bidding for field reactivation aroused considerable interest , while a number of major gas and heavy oil projects are gathering pace . |
| 5 | The broadening market for computer equipment suits Japanese manufacturers down to the ground . |
| 6 | However , you really need the camcorder feature known as exposure lock to make this effect work properly . |
| 7 | Examples of strategic variables that might be used for entry deterrence include physical capital investment or R&D to reduce costs , pre-emptive patenting , and manipulation of demand conditions by advertising or brand proliferation ( for a sceptical analysis see Smiley , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | IMF hopes for quota boost to aid Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | As well as the absence of a common opposition policy for home rule making such pacts unachievable , Mr Wallace is anxious that the party does not lose sight of its objective of a federal United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 11 | Claiming a widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of education being provided by LEA schools , and promising greater opportunities for parent power to preserve local accountability , it was able to seize control over the curriculum with considerable public support . |
| 12 | All patients seen for check endoscopy had good control of symptoms at that time . |
| 13 | We now know too much about child development to allow this kind of testing to be inflicted on our schools , so we must co-operate in developing and using appropriate tests while , at the same time , resisting inappropriate proposals . |
| 14 | We need to examine , therefore , those experiments that try to determine if the conditions necessary for stimulus exposure to produce latent inhibition are the same as those that produce the habituation of a UR . |
| 15 | Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed . |
| 16 | The BAeSema Ltd joint venture of British Aerospace Plc and Sema Group Plc won a UK Ministry of Defence contract to equip five frigates with command systems : no price was given but a source told Reuter that it was about £30m . |
| 17 | But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night that neither was in immediate danger . |
| 18 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 19 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
| 20 | This multisubunit enzyme resembles the RNA polymerases of eukaryotic cells , and the two largest and the smallest subunits of vaccinia virus have similar amino acid sequences to their cellular counterparts ( 2-4 ) . |
| 21 | This offers a very high level ( up to eighty per cent ) of grant aid to repair those field barns in Swaledale that remain unconverted . |
| 22 | Modern methods of teaching reading avoid this stage , as is shown in Chapter 4 . |
| 23 | The new pattern of teaching practice gives increased coverage of the secondary age range in a split system , but it is not without its own difficulties . |
| 24 | However , plasmid sequencing is largely dependent upon the quality of plasmid DNA to be sequenced and the alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA to produce single-strand templates of high quality . |
| 25 | During the prefabrication boom of the fifties and sixties some contractors used many times the permitted level of calcium chloride to help speedy setting in concrete — it also helped speedy corrosion . |
| 26 | Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol . |
| 27 | Professor Stubbs provided a much lengthier example of class-room discussion to illustrate good practice in the teaching of linguistic terminology . |
| 28 | I can confirm that there is no SNP Member of Parliament present to hear this debate today . |
| 29 | The implications of demographic trends for problems of labour supply received considerable coverage in the last few years , with analysts predicting fierce competition for new entrants to the labour market and serious shortages of skilled and educated staff . |
| 30 | He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees — this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely . |