Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task is enlarged considerably because several EEC countries do little to enforce wildlife trade laws , whilst trade controls between EEC Member States have been greatly reduced . |
| 2 | The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students . |
| 3 | Correa suggests that the optimal density for tropical Third World countries is 200–240 people per hectare , which will allow cities to dispense with expensive central sewerage systems and to recycle human and animal wastes locally to provide cooking gas and fertilisers . |
| 4 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
| 5 | From these elements , Powell went on to found Palace Pictures , initially distributing videos and films , then moving into production through such films as Mona Lisa , Company of Wolves and Absolute Beginners . |
| 6 | Sphagnum bogs and peat mires are missing ; occasionally the ground is wet enough to support moss mires , involving ahumic soils and an overgrowth of mosses Orthothecium chryseum , or Campylium and Bryum spp. forming protoranker mats on top . |
| 7 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 8 | I have seen Koi survive and thrive in the most unlikely ponds , providing their owners provide knowledgeable TLC , and I have witnessed good carp caught by anglers using rods apparently fit only to support runner beans . |
| 9 | A SAVAGE feud between rival Republicans which left three men dead may be over , after the IRA stepped in to target faction leaders . |
| 10 | Other interesting youth-preserving ingredients which work together to promote cell rejuvenation and boost capillary circulations ( functions that grow sluggish with time ) are apricot essence B15 , and a form of vitamin E called Tocopherol nicotinate , derived from polished rice . |
| 11 | Acid levels high enough to affect plant growth were found in 41 prefectures . |
| 12 | Residents cheered when a bulldozer moved in to demolish wartime flats and maisonettes condemned by tenants as a disgrace . |
| 13 | As with the NHS , the caution is partly attributable to public loyalty , occasionally reinforced by ministerial affection for particular programmes ( Major intervened personally to preserve Test Match Special on Radio 3 ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership . |
| 15 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 16 | Overall , use of search is now widespread enough to enable search firms to ride out storms in specific sectors . |
| 17 | SWEDE Anders Gillner ambled into the lead in the Turespana Balearic Open in Majorca yesterday — after being asked to slow down to accommodate television schedules . |
| 18 | All stored configurable items are owned by the UIC of the LIFESPAN Process , so to estimate disk quota for a LIFESPAN Process , calculate the size of your total data storage requirements , multiply it by the average number of versions you intend to hold on-line , and add approximately 15000 blocks . |
| 19 | We all must work together to find Transport alternatives to be rid of the present traffic-hells of Oxford and other cities , and this is urgent . |
| 20 | Normally , the visitors gather together to meet PLC directors briefly before setting off on a guided tour . |
| 21 | There has been a noticeable shift of working class support from the SPD to the far-right Republicans — not as much as the losses from the Christian Democrats , but enough to worry party managers . |
| 22 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
| 23 | A commission would meet annually to reallocate flight quotas and to discuss technical questions and improvements . |
| 24 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 25 | ‘ If your arm festers you might lose it , ’ she pointed out , desperate enough to try shock tactics . |
| 26 | Interest in Russia was beginning to take off , but not enough to provide job opportunities . |
| 27 | The results of these latest trials indicate the continuing need for close cooperation between neurosurgeons , pathologists , and radiation oncologists in the management of cancers that metastasise to the brain , not only to provide biopsy material for histological diagnosis but also to carry out excisional surgery in appropriate cases . |
| 28 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 29 | However , when Karamoja experienced severe famine in 1979 and 1980 , aid organizations streamed in to provide relief food . |
| 30 | While some types of income insurance schemes do exist e.g. pensions-the government , for example stepping in to provide unemployment benefit financed from taxation of the employed , may be a superior provision mechanism . |