Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of those replies , which are expected to include details of the tax matters , will determine whether the committee decides to ask the National Audit Office to re-open its investigation of the sale , and whether it is necessary to summon Lord Young . |
| 2 | The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services . |
| 3 | Those organisms that do not derive their energy from this route ( including some bacteria that derive energy directly from various tricks of inorganic chemistry ) are now confined to obscure corners of the Earth ( like the edges of undersea volcanoes ) and play little part in the mainstream of Earth 's ecology . |
| 4 | Now that the Regional Geophysics Group is part of TMOS , the opportunity has come to redesign parts of the Geophysics Core programme to integrate it more effectively with other activities . |
| 5 | He is expected to cite aspects of the deal under which Spurs signed £2.1million striker Teddy Sheringham as an example of Venables ' unsuitability . |
| 6 | The headman was supposed to check the accuracy of this information before giving his permission for the butchering , and he was also expected to send copies of the permits which he had approved to the magistrate at the end of each month . |
| 7 | Despite opposition from the Social Democrats ( SPD ) , a law designed to change aspects of the tax system was approved by the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) on Feb. 14 by 35 votes to 33 , after delegations from two Länder in which the SPD participated in government — Brandenburg and Berlin — were persuaded to vote in favour of the package . |
| 8 | The lectures are part of a larger programme , designed to bring members of the university and of the local community , to bring them together in serious consideration of great issues , great ideas and great people in the sciences , the humanities and the social sciences . |
| 9 | The Honorat regime had threatened to arrest members of the legislature if they tried to ratify the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Aristide , providing for the latter 's eventual return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that something must be done to control imports of the drug known as Ecstasy , which is not merely creeping into schools in London but has reached teenagers in my constituency in south Devon ? |
| 11 | Similarly , the trustees can be empowered to convene meetings of the holders in order to acquaint them with the position and to obtain their instructions . |
| 12 | This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form . |
| 13 | Wallwashers , downlights or uplighters can be used to highlight areas of the room , or sculptural halogen floor lamps with dimmers can be ready to flood a room with sunshine-like light , or give a wan and cosy glow . |
| 14 | A second sheet or thick towel will be needed to cover areas of the body you are not working on , thus preventing your partner from becoming chilled . |
| 15 | These data will be used to develop profiles of the living standards of similar household types at different income levels . |
| 16 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 17 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 18 | A word-grammar is used to make decisions of the form : |
| 19 | The main opposition grouping , the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , was reported on June 2 to have protested that administrative and legal obstacles were being used to prevent sections of the population registering . |
| 20 | The subscribers are then ‘ deemed to have agreed to become members of the company and on its registration shall be entered in such in its register of members . ’ |
| 21 | This was intended to reassure sections of the population worried about unification with Romania . |
| 22 | Their research , he said , should have been more broadly based to include interviews of the children . |
| 23 | Language is bound to reflect events of the day . |
| 24 | The Minister for the Economy , Mr. Richard Needham , pictured at a Press Conference called to announce details of the Laganside development . |
| 25 | He said he was ‘ disgusted ’ that Mr Clarke had refused to meet representatives of the ambulance workers . |
| 26 | He is a man of action , and has indeed been known to leave parts of the railway covered all over in ‘ sweet violets ’ . |
| 27 | I attach a note which I hope you will find useful and which could be distributed to appropriate members of the Trust . |
| 28 | Many store food overwinter in fleshy stems , roots and leaf bases ; deep storage roots are restricted to dry areas of the subarctic , where the spring thaw comes early . |
| 29 | PMMA 's biocompatibility is said to have been deduced from the fact that World War II fighter pilots were found to tolerate splinters of the polymer which had become embedded in their eyes following damage to their cockpits in aerial combat . |
| 30 | The campaign for conscription was at least in part intended to force opponents of the war out into the open , so that their lack of patriotism could be exposed when it would be unpopular . |