Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’
2 More striking is evidence of reluctance by local groups to launch out into direct engagement with the public in open meetings .
3 In education , although legislation promises increased power to parents and the opportunity for schools to opt out of local education authorities , it also promises a greater power for head teachers and , in the case of City Technology Colleges , a greater direct input from industry .
4 This apparently low level of active parental involvement has important implications for other aspects of current policy — especially the arrangements for schools to opt out of local authority control .
5 ANY doubts parents might have had that the Government 's scheme to persuade schools to opt out of local authority membership was motivated by pure political dogma must now be dissolved .
6 Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time .
7 It 's even worse You have to climb up steps to get out of that station .
8 Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln .
9 The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance .
10 Parents of pupils at St Mary 's College , Wallasey , voted to reject proposals to opt out of local authority control by 552 to 211 .
11 Nirex 's plans to drill up to 6,000 test bore holes for an underground nuclear waste dump at Dounreay , Caithness , have been approved by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang .
12 Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second .
13 shareholding in National Power and PowerGen and instruct the chief executives to sit down with British Coal and negotiate a mutually beneficial contract from 1993 .
14 Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen .
15 Typical sail dimensions to lift up to one kilo ( 2.21b ) would be a span or width across the mainspar of 125cm ( 49in ) and a depth of 85cm ( 33in ) so that the triangle is an included angle of 73 degrees approximately at the apex ; however , this is not critical .
16 Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war .
17 Some agencies prefer that provision should be made to make it easier for confused tenants to move on from sheltered housing .
18 There is also evidence that bureaucratic advancement may be obtained by successful efforts to cut back on departmental expenditure .
19 Finding things to make out of unwanted household rubbish will always be technically difficult .
20 The only names to crop up with any regularity by then were Isabelia Penny , Mary Ryan , Ellen Redmond , Mary Connor , Ann Kinsala and Jane Fearon .
21 He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other .
22 The cutters were then ordered by a signal flashed from the clifftops to close in at top speed .
23 Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss .
24 However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer .
25 And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’
26 The dinner was a pleasant opportunity for members to catch up with each other 's news .
27 The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed .
28 This view is premissed on the essential goodness of human nature , seeing all failures to live up to this goodness as attributable to defects in the way that international society is arranged .
29 There is also a rundown of each team 's history plus tips on the players to watch out for this season .
30 The pound fell heavily on the foreign exchanges to close down at one dollar , forty-three and down at two marks , thirty-six .
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