Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for employers to set up suitable pension arrangements for their employees . |
| 2 | For Friedman the realized decline in the measured real wage rate — a decline which only becomes apparent to workers with the passage of time — was sufficient incentive for employers to take on more labour . |
| 3 | It is for schools to work out balanced programmes for themselves , and the pressure is on to find ways of convincingly managing ever-increasing demands . |
| 4 | Extra tax relief for companies buying new machinery or spending money on key investment and a 20 per cent tax incentive for companies putting up new buildings . |
| 5 | The completion accounts at the completion date shall be audited by ABC 's existing auditors , [ name ] and prepared on a basis consistent with prior years in so far as these are in accordance with accounting standards and generally accepted and adopted United Kingdom accounting practices for companies carrying on similar businesses save as defined in the purchase and sale agreement . |
| 6 | Financial Services — Unauthorised investments — Third party — Solicitors acting for companies carrying on unauthorised investment business — Whether Securities and Investments Board 's right of action for benefit of investors available against third parties — Whether action against solicitors to be struck out — Financial Services Act 1986 ( c. 60 ) , ss. 6(2) , 61(1) |
| 7 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 8 | The sunny weather and the end of exams brought on other priorities . |
| 9 | Crough ( 1979 ) explores the possible morphological consequences of continents migrating over hot spots and also cites a possible example from North America ( Crough , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | The loss of trivial names such as vinyl , amyl , allyl , and so on , which in a couple of syllables conjure up huge chunks of molecules , continues to amaze me . |
| 11 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 12 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 13 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 14 | A flouncy negligee and a pair of tights lay over one chair ; the tiny television was perched on another ; a soggy packet of frozen spinach lay beside the gas-ring ; on the crumpled candlewick of the bed an Evening Standard was open at the entertainments ' page so she could decide which film to go and see . |
| 15 | As he works on a new piece he is able to make a series of models , maquettes and drawings with this repertoire of effects to try out different emphases and viewpoints . |
| 16 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 17 | I have a bunch of hoods lurking around some corner wanting ten thousand pounds that I have not got . |
| 18 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 19 | Local Area Networks ( LANs ) of PCs to carry out group-specific tasks , such as scientific computing , administrative functions , library activities . |
| 20 | Sixty alleged Palestinian informers or collaborators had been killed by August 1989 , as the Israeli Defence Force ( IDF ) and Shin Bet ( the Israeli secret police ) increased their use of informers to set up paramilitary groups working alongside Palestinian collaborators . |
| 21 | In fact , a lot of bands starting out these days have to pay to play their first gigs . |
| 22 | One obvious way to reduce the risks of conflict between the powers was to encourage the formation of an ‘ ultra-imperialist ’ consortium of powers to open up new territories like China . |
| 23 | Lack of resources to carry out overseas operations by the manufacturer . |
| 24 | Here we are reminded of studies carried out some years ago in Germany on the personality characteristics of a large group of professional painters and sculptors . |
| 25 | THIS B Division encounter produced eight goals , with the home side , Ballymena United Reserves , having the better of things to run out 5–3 winners . |
| 26 | Although it was desired to have as wide a selection of situations as possible in the stimulus set , caution dictated against simply selecting a random set of situations differing along multiple dimensions . |
| 27 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 28 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 29 | The number of passengers carried on international flights quadrupled between 1960 and 1970 , and quadrupled again ( to 4.2 million ) between 1970 and 1988 . |
| 30 | SOUL singer Whitney Houston yesterday cemented her place in a galaxy of stars going back 40 years with this year 's Christmas No. 1 . |