Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , therefore , a strong case for bringing an open mind to the richness of the subject . |
| 2 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |
| 3 | A large number of authors may be required in a study for various reasons : ( a ) the need for a large team of technically specialised laboratory workers ; ( b ) the need to accrue scarce resources for study , such as clinically derived material ( human tissue , blood samples ) or patients with rare diseases ; or ( c ) the inherent labour intensiveness of a given project , such as cloning an unmapped gene or cooperative management of a large clinical trial . |
| 4 | Thus , the school work in this first term consists of five complete mornings in school during which the time is divided between helping an individual child with his/her reading , and working with a small group of older children . |
| 5 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 6 | Bureaux and micros are not suitable , so a choice must be made between using an in-house mainframe and buying a mini . |
| 7 | The plaintiff did recover against his employer for using an unsafe system of work . |
| 8 | Where a company supplies estimated figures which prove to be unreasonable , this will not invalidate the return for the purposes of s 11 , but may render the company liable to penalties under s 96 for submitting an incorrect return . |
| 9 | 1993 itself will undoubtedly be equally as difficult a year in many ways at 1992 but we are better equipped now that new foundations have been laid for building an effective and successful engineering and construction consultancy business for the nineties . |
| 10 | This concluded that ‘ not only is there sufficient land for building another 250,000 dwellings [ in the study area ] over the next five years , but already capacity has been identified for building an additional 117,000 dwellings after five years ’ . |
| 11 | The proposals , according to Land , add up to ‘ what is probably the best possible programme for building an information-technology Concorde ’ . |
| 12 | Improved performance is obtained through building an ultra-thin channel of silicon-germanium alloy under the silicon surface of the mosfet to restrain mobility of the charges carrying current through the device . |
| 13 | I had just sent in last month 's article on the rib transfer carriage and shadow lace , when I received a letter from Mr David Dick of Irvine , Ayrshire , asking about knitting an embossed lace pattern using the ribber . |
| 14 | 1.2 SCOTVEC , as custodian of the National Certificate Catalogue of module descriptors has a responsibility for maintaining an up-to-date provision . |
| 15 | The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation . |
| 16 | The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity . |
| 17 | Two directors of Britain 's largest independent toy company have been jailed for masterminding an eight million pounds fraud . |
| 18 | However , where the vessel constitutes an instrument for pursuing an economic activity which involves a fixed establishment in the member state concerned , the registration of that vessel can not be dissociated from the exercise of the freedom of establishment . |
| 19 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 20 | As the cell proceeds down a pathway genes are switched on and off reflecting an internal programme , for external signals only act at the branch points , directing the cell along one or other of the paths open to it . |
| 21 | HCIMA has published Guidelines for producing an Environmental Policy , as one of its initiatives linked to environmental issues . |
| 22 | Through it Widgery became involved with another student venture , U Magazine , and managed to become its editor without even being a student , having been expelled from school for producing an irreverent magazine . |
| 23 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 24 | This task is more difficult than the tagging problem and the results have been , understandably , less impressive ( approximately 50% success rate for producing an acceptable parse ) . |
| 25 | Cher , who left the instruction on her tape to an expert , scored above average marks for producing an entertaining workout although not one for beginners . |
| 26 | These included the British Aerosol Manufacturers Association , for suggesting that all domestic aerosols were now " ozone-friendly " ( despite the fact that some still contain ozone-damaging chemicals ) ; NIREX , the nuclear waste agency , for producing an over-simplified version of the problem of nuclear waste disposal ; and the Young Telegraph newspaper , for running a promotion sponsored by the BASF chemical conglomerate , which included copy presenting what FoE claim is an over-flattering account of BASF 's safety record . |
| 27 | Thus , DNA-dependent phosphorylation of Spl might be an effective mechanism for generating an active transcription factor only when and where it is needed . |
| 28 | These included the elimination and/or simplification of existing manual systems with subsequent savings in staff effort and the more tedious tasks such as producing an alphabetical listing ( nominal roll ) of employees or identifying those employees coming up for retirement . |
| 29 | For example , family responsibilities such as helping an elderly relative with shopping , or parents and children being unconvinced about the quality and relevance of what the school has to offer make regular attendance seem less important . |
| 30 | You can create many different patterns , such as hanging an oval picture between two rectangular pictures . |