Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 2 | APAP members in London — believed to be seriously disaffected by the association 's stance in the dispute — will be met by an executive member , Mr Peter Kenney , in the first of a series of meetings to rally support for the union amid threats of a revolt following the resignation of the 132-strong Hertfordshire chapter last week . |
| 3 | The controversial high-tech pyramid structure at the cliff top entrance to Whitby Spa could disappear as part of plans to improve sign-posting of the complex . |
| 4 | PEOPLE were urged yesterday to start taking showers instead of baths to avert disaster for the wildlife of rivers , lakes and wetlands as the country suffers its worst drought for 200 years . |
| 5 | Indeed one of the main reasons for the failure of Marxists to make headway amongst the Latin American working classes is that labour organisations in many of these countries were originally the creation of the state . |
| 6 | The Partnership had helped to stabilize conditions in the inner city , partly as a result of encouraging a range of organizations to focus attention on the older urban core . |
| 7 | As one survey of tactics to control bureaucracy in the post-Mao period concluded : |
| 8 | This in turn reinforced the vicious circle of foreign debt , exchange controls , administrative impediments to corporate planning and the reluctance of foreigners to increase investment in the country . |
| 9 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 10 | For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system . |
| 11 | The turbo-alternator manufacturers reckoned that it would enable them to cut between six and nine months off delivery dates , and the boiler-makers reckoned the standardisation of boilers to supply steam to the standard units would also speed up construction . |
| 12 | WavePhore said it is also joining the National Data Broadcast Committee , set up by the Association of Broadcasters to encourage entry into the high speed information market . |
| 13 | Moreover , the establishment of the right of carers to separate assessment under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 has formalized what was already becoming an increasing emphasis in social work practice . |
| 14 | The National Rivers Authority bought in dozens of workers to pump sludge from the river and take it by tanker for spreading on nearby fields . |
| 15 | Plotting functions encourage experimentation , allowing not only trials of equations other than that selected as optimum , but also zooming parts of plots to amplify relevance of the fit and resizing the graph to judge extrapolation effects . |
| 16 | Moreover , although there is no fixed order for working through the modules and the fieldworker is expected to allow the subject 's interest in any particular set of topics to guide transition through the network from module to module , his or her role as topic-initiator is still very much in the forefront ; it is the interviewer who makes decisions about how or when topics shall be shifted or closed down . |
| 17 | Nottingham Victoria after clearance of platforms to make way for the present shopping centre . |
| 18 | Another is the capacity of managers to add value to the work of their subordinates . |
| 19 | The company had admitted in June that initial results from boreholes drilled in the area showed that it did not have sufficient knowledge of conditions to guarantee safety of the repository . |
| 20 | Getting back to the numbers , Mr says that if the number suggested by ourselves , through our client of thirty one K were er adhered to that it may well reduce the ability completely of locals to gain access to the housing market . |
| 21 | We will therefore broaden our discussion of factors involved in the formulation of sentences to consider evidence concerning the accessibility of lexical items . |
| 22 | There are a variety of exercises to check understanding at the back of each book and all the readers contain a picture dictionary , illustrating the words that appear in the stories . |
| 23 | They 've stood up to years of games to earn retirement in the showcase . |
| 24 | Although this has a militant reputation , the abbess is a Chinese appointee and nuns have been known to climb out of windows to take part in the demonstrations . |
| 25 | The original departure from West Hampstead was delayed because of repairs to fire damage to the signalling systems on the approach to London 's St Pancras station and they reached Crewe around 40 minutes late . |
| 26 | He also recommended the use of vaccines to stimulate immunity to the pneumococci , but made no reference to the penicillin , a little of which , presumably , was in his reach while he wrote the letter . |
| 27 | This kind of accountability goes beyond the narrowly defined stewardship of assets to include responsibility for the performance of those assets . |
| 28 | D'Annuzio led a group of men to occupy Fiume for the Italians , lording over the city for almost a year before being ousted by the wartime Allies . |
| 29 | After talks with the IMF Vieira announced on April 12 , 1990 , a series of measures to control expenditure in the public sector and to centralize tax collection . |
| 30 | The French environment minister , Ségolène Royal , has announced a series of measures to conserve water in the light of increasing demand and four consecutive years of relative drought . |