Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes made by the Act provide both greater flexibility and increased protection for those affected by actual or potential insolvency situations . |
| 2 | The purchase grant for 1992 diminishes to Pta300 million ( £1.6 million ) . |
| 3 | Though the base grant for 1991–92 remained at C$8.5 million , nevertheless , the AGO continued to spend at 1990–91 levels , confident that the ministry would again come to the rescue . |
| 4 | The grant for 1988 falls short by £7000 and is one a reducing scale for the following 3 years after which we are told there will be no further grant . |
| 5 | Ten years or more , for ten seconds or less : it will seem as though whole lives are being relived throughout that run , and that the winner will be the man who has lived his life best in preparation for that reliving . |
| 6 | As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup . |
| 7 | The local authority finance settlement for 1991-92 allows for local authorities in England to spend nearly £17.5 billion on education — 16 per cent . |
| 8 | The settlement for 1992-93 allows for spending of over £18.7 billion , a further increase of 7 per cent . |
| 9 | Over the past century South Asia has been the centre of a major division between two opposed religious approaches within Sunni Islam . |
| 10 | By the blurring of the division between those needing residential care and those needing nursing home care this privatisation is being carried out by stealth and is often not recognised by those working with elderly people . |
| 11 | This will provide an unprecedented opportunity for many to experience at first hand the richness and diversity of Japanese culture . |
| 12 | The project also presents the opportunity for all involved to make new contacts in Europe and to promote Scottish education and training abroad . |
| 13 | By praying with and sharing in the enthusiasm of the Elect there is an opportunity for all to turn to God and find the Holy Spirit anew . |
| 14 | The theory wrongly assumes the existence of a ‘ meritocracy ’ — that there is equal opportunity for all to develop their talent : public schoolboys in Britain and white South African children , for example , do not start alongside their age-peers in an equal contest . |
| 15 | It was important to provide an opportunity for that to happen in all welfare organisations , for it sustained an unselfish motivation which was in the end necessary to sustain social institutions . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) If a decision-maker establishes a procedure or practice for the making of decisions , which gives advantages to those affected by them , he creates a legitimate expectation that he will follow that procedure or practice in relation to any particular case , unless or until he gives notice of intention to change the procedure and an opportunity for those affected to make representations : see again Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 408G. ( 3 ) A decision-maker is required to adopt a procedure for decision-making which is fair in all the circumstances . |
| 17 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 18 | He now declared the aim of the NSDAP to be simply the ‘ annihilation and extirpation of the Marxist world view ’ , and during 1923 , as the notion of a heroic , final struggle between two opposed Weltanschauungen seemed to grow in his mind , the Jews played a less overt role in Hitler 's public statements , whereas the sole , mortal enemy of the Nazi Movement was now proclaimed to be Marxism . |
| 19 | There is a list of new ‘ legal-specific ’ features to make Ami Pro more suitable as a word processor for those working on contracts , case law and other specialised applications but it would be misleading to dwell on those aspects and not mention facilities that are not new but are still exciting extras . |
| 20 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 21 | you , you ca you can get a bo you can get a set of , you can get a board for these to get room on so you |
| 22 | There is a powerful case for Labour to put down amendments condemning the Tory opt-out of the Social Charter and forcing a division to demonstrate to the rest of Europe how John Major 's ‘ classless ’ government is grotesquely out of line with Christian , let alone Social , Democratic politics on the Continent . |
| 23 | There is also a case for Labour to outline a vision of Europe utterly different from the EC sought by the Tories and the City . |
| 24 | However , Mr Ray also warned delegates that the ‘ achilles heel ’ of the case for nuclear remains the issue of the disposal of waste . |
| 25 | Safety must be paramount in our thinking , and if it stops any more such tragedies then there is no case for those opposed to all-seater stadia . |
| 26 | The author of the book Trio ] and Error ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.95 ) which puts the case for those found guilty of the Guildford-related offences is Mr Robert Kee , who might be described as an old-fashioned television-documentary liberal . |
| 27 | Science teaching , like any other , hopes to make provision for this to happen , as well as to provide the necessary detailed cross-checking and testing to see whether our intuitions have been correct . |
| 28 | The development which really strengthened the governments , however , was the tendency , beginning in Paris in February 1961 , for European leaders to meet in ‘ summits ’ where major decisions were taken , even though no provision for this existed in the Rome treaty . |
| 29 | I find a little difficulty in understanding the basis of your argument Mr , given the point you made last week about the need for Yo North Yorkshire as a whole to cater for one hundred percent migration , so as to make adequate provision for those coming from Leeds . |
| 30 | The effect of article 3 is to make comparable provision for voluntary winding up . |