Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their final communiqué the heads of state threatened to blockade that part of Liberia controlled by Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia if Taylor did not implement within one month the Yamoussoukro IV peace agreement signed in October 1991 [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 2 | We measured circulating gastrin to determine the concentrations of gastrin required to produce half maximal acid secretion . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available . |
| 4 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 5 | To the non Bridge player , discussions or articles about Bridge appear to make little sense . |
| 6 | A controlled trial comparing 12 to 24 weeks of treatment failed to show any beneficial effect of the prolonged therapy . |
| 7 | The task of condensing five thousand years of glass-making appears to have little deterred the contributors of this latest offering from the British Museum . |
| 8 | Negative perceptions of wilderness helped to reinforce this process of agricultural expansion by , in effect , making a virtue out of necessity — by turning cultivation and agriculture into a form of semi-religious crusade ( Thomas , 1983 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The use of quantification in studies of crime tends to obscure this diversity . |
| 10 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |
| 11 | All my efforts at control failed to keep this horror at bay . |
| 12 | We have already suggested that theories of motivation seem to indicate that money is only one of many factors that have a bearing upon motivation and morale . |
| 13 | Conventional histories of penology tend to represent these developments in penal thought and practice as rational , progressive , scientific and humane ; Marxists are sceptical of such claims and see the furtherance of class interests as of prime importance . |
| 14 | The context for this shift in direction was to be found in wider pressures to reduce state spending and , above all , levels of state borrowing to finance such expenditure . |
| 15 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |
| 16 | Luckily , many scientists have started to make the leaps of imagination required to answer these questions . |
| 17 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |
| 18 | Feminists in psychology began to investigate these gendered subjectivities , and to challenge their discipline 's gender biases . |
| 19 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 20 | Given that an extra £2.8 billion was found , has my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State received an apology from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , or have any of Labour 's Front-Bench spokesmen for health offered to withdraw that allegation ? |
| 21 | I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company . |
| 22 | Figure 2.5 shows the types of decision , figure 2.6 examples of the decisions , Figure 2.7 the types of information required to support this decision-making , and figure 2.8 examples of such information . |