Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snyder ( 1982 , Appendix B ) lists 20 map projections used by the US Geological Survey , and individual states make use of their own projections and grids . |
| 2 | Both Bell and Howell and Rank-Aldis make versions of this machine : bell and Howell 's is the Language Master , Rank-Aldis calls theirs a Card Reader , but they perform the same function . |
| 3 | Foreigners , which pay less for labour and in many cases make components of equal quality , are winning business away from German firms . |
| 4 | By mid-November 1991 Bund futures contract volumes on the DTB were matching those at LIFFE . |
| 5 | This study is concerned with the way Pakeha ( white ) New Zealanders make sense of race and race related issues , such as the violent protests against the Springbok tour , Polynesian and British immigration , and the position of New Zealand Maoris . |
| 6 | Ingvar Carlsson Prime Minister Odd Engström Deputy Prime Minister ; Minister with special responsibility for research Sten Andersson Foreign Affairs Roine Carlsson Defence Allan Larsson Finance Laila Freivalds Justice Rune Molin Industry ( including energy affairs ) Mona Sahlin Labour Mats Hellström Agriculture Ingela Thalén Health and Social Affairs Ulf Lönnqvist Housing and Physical Planning Bengt Göransson Education and Cultural Affairs Georg Andersson Transport and Communications Bengt Johansson Public Administration ( including wages and pensions ) Birgitta Dahl Environment Maj-Lis Lööw Minister at the Ministry of Labour ( immigrant affairs ) Anita Gradin Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( foreign trade ) Lena Hjelm-Wallén Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( international development co-operation ) Eric Asbrink Minister at the Ministry of Finance ( budget ) Bengt Lindqvist Minister at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs ( social services , family affairs and matters concerning disabled and elderly ) Margot Wallström Minister at the Ministry of Public Administration ( ecclesiastical , equality and youth affairs ) Göran Persson Minister at the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs ( schools , adult education and study assistance ) |
| 7 | FEES , CHARGES AND OTHER INCOME : Your authorities raise income by imposing fees or charges for the use of their services and receive other income such as interest on investments . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 9 | The best illustrations of this are in societies where the authorities bring defaulters to heel directly by the power of their curse . |
| 10 | Indeed , the argument is often advanced that mergers bring benefits through reducing costs of production because of the attainment of economies of scale . |
| 11 | In contrast , other metaphors make reference to an animacy which seems to threaten by its very absence . |
| 12 | The three free-standing objects introduce complexity through the marked difference in content and philosophy . |
| 13 | Its powerful jaws equipped with razor-sharp teeth tear chunks of flesh off other fish , and shoals of piranha are reputedly able to strip even large animals , such as cattle or people , to the bone within minutes . |
| 14 | In the first two years , the post ‘ A ’ level language programmes introduce students to a wide range of social , political and economic registers , with an emphasis on oral as well as written skills . |
| 15 | Konstantinos Mitsotakis Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis Deputy Prime Minister Athanassios Kanellopoulos Deputy Prime Minister Miltiades Evert Minister to the Prime Minister 's Office Antonis Samaras Foreign Minister Yannis Varvitsiotis National Defence |
| 16 | In order to give some structure to the discussion , each of the major social services will be examined under three headings : access , i.e. geographical distribution of social services ; use , i.e. the extent to which different groups make use of services ; and outcome , i.e. the benefit derived from the use of services . |
| 17 | Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long . |
| 18 | Deer ruin their chances of being awesome beasts , providing a rare and special experience to those who spot them , by standing in massive herds all along the verge of the A9 looking glum , and grouse lose points for frightening you half to death by crashing out of the heather from under your feet screeching like banshees . |
| 19 | Indeed the Lord Chancellor 's Department figures draw attention to the fact that solicitors make mistakes in court documentation and evinces the hope that improvements can be made in this respect . |
| 20 | And if this is true , the sooner the mainstream cosmetic houses make changes to the way they sell make-up , the better off we 'll all be . |
| 21 | In Bucharest , gangs of crawling labourers comb weeds from the cobbled forecourts of Socialist ministries . |
| 22 | In the case of dangerous goods , there are complicated and frequently changing regulations on classification , labelling and packing , but the rewards make expansion into this specialist area of operation extremely worthwhile . |
| 23 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 24 | Other literacies make use of different convention and may , for instance , without any loss of clarity for those who know the rules , not mark sentence boundaries at all . |
| 25 | Lienhardt , as an anthropologist , leaves that question alone and is concerned simply with the different ways in which people in different cultures make sense of their worlds , without attempting to attribute greater truth to any one way as , by definition , the attribution of ‘ objectivity ’ does . |
| 26 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 27 | Opening the council on 25th May 1863 , Hale made the incredible proposal that the Nez Perce sell 90% of their 10,000 square mile reservation , and retire to a 600 square mile area on the south fork of the Clearwater . |
| 28 | A lower level of subsidence claims was reported and , apart from the Perth floods which cost the Homeowners account $3m in the first quarter , the account continued to benefit from the absence of severe weather losses . |
| 29 | We can therefore in analysing the public institutions make use of the parallel with the private sector , but it must be tempered by consideration of the monopoly position of the government agency and the limitations on entry . |
| 30 | The discount houses borrow funds from commercial banks , accepting houses , overseas and other banks and from industrial and commercial companies . |