Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistical aggregates suggesting an inexorable logic to Labour 's advance in the 1920s disguise considerable reversals in certain localities and unexpected increases in others ( Savage 1987 Ch 8 ) . |
| 2 | Ideally , strategies using an economics-based approach to air pollution control would provide financial incentives for emission sources to pursue the most cost-effective means for reducing pollution ( Anderson et al. , 1977 ; Magat , 1982 ; Rosencranz , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | The group is centred around Professor X , the Overseer ; Brother J , the Grand Verbaliser Funkin-Lesson ; and the Rhythm Provider , Sugar Shaft — upfront , serious brothers bringing a spiritual neo-nationalism to the streets of urban America , using hip hop culture to introduce and develop Blackwatch , a youth organisation working for self-help in the black inner cities . |
| 4 | A selection of articles giving a practical guide to their use compiled by Robert Barker |
| 5 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 6 | If he wanted to , he could be a real show-off : ‘ My Own Private Catastrophe ’ is pure restraint , feedback and harmonics adding a peculiar tension to the track , whereas the apocalyptic ‘ Sever ’ has him seeming to invent a new ‘ Semtex ’ effects pedal . |
| 7 | Palestinians waging an unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation of Arab lands , have suffered a brutal repression and thousands of deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of Israeli armed forces . |
| 8 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 9 | There are thousands of informers proclaiming a new devotion to Vaclev Havel . |
| 10 | These presumably include providers demonstrating a significant contribution to programmes to improve health status , falling unit costs , a greater diversity of suppliers and a substitution of some secondary care by general practitioners . |
| 11 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 12 | Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous . |
| 13 | For this reason , the term ‘ related publication ’ is used for all publications bearing an identifiable relationship to the original research work . |
| 14 | For this reason , the term ‘ related publication ’ is used for all publications bearing an identifiable relationship to the original research work . |
| 15 | There are many modern examples of artists taking a nonchalent attitude to their own work . |
| 16 | Increased protein synthesis thus also may require increased RNA synthesis , which can be measured by exactly analogous procedures using a radioactive precursor to RNA . |
| 17 | New songs like ‘ Angel ’ show another side to Into Paradise , with its slow burning atmospherics forming a stark contrast to the bulk of their material . |
| 18 | On 7 October , Lloyd 's sent letters to 3,500 members establishing a legal debt to Lloyd 's and giving them 28 days to pay . |
| 19 | Rightly or wrongly , I could not accept that certain occupations having a particular duty to society could withdraw their essential services for financial considerations . |
| 20 | Made of upright panels , they are mounted in attractive solid beech wood frames giving a beautiful surround to samples on pictures . |
| 21 | Several squads or whole companies of the Chapter would quest for lost worlds and for planets posing a potential menace to the Imperium , as well as for any alien redoubts within imperial spheres of influence , so as to sterilise those . |
| 22 | Waddington , one of four London galleries making an impressive contribution to the fair , brought works by Sean Scully , Patrick Caulfield , Ian Davenport and Barry Flanagan , but did better with more classic drawings , selling sheets by Matisse and Picabia , and expecting to place a canvas by Leger . |
| 23 | Bang on cue , she strode out on to the stage , feeling none of the terror that had crippled her last performance , the excited cheers of the children bringing a beaming smile to her face . |
| 24 | Given , say , a hundred million Ks , we should be able to construct a plausible series of tiny gradations linking a human eye to just about anything ! |
| 25 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |
| 26 | Their success or failure in doing so may depend on factors bearing a minimal relationship to class struggle . |
| 27 | In addition they provide compensation water into the burns and rivers ensuring a continual supply to those users who tap straight into them for their supply , eg. industrial users along the Water of Leith . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |
| 29 | With the Seasiders announcing a revolutionary offer to season ticket holders of a free season pass for 1993–94 if they fail to make a top seven placing next season , McHale knows he has to strengthen his side . |
| 30 | The equivalent polonium could give an equivalent individual dose via ingesting local food of 0.57 rems implying a total dose to the UK of 5 million man-rems and a further dose to the continent of 0.5 million man-rems . |