Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was also agreed that the options for storage/retrieval of information in the long-term would be examined , based on the FAOR proposals to move towards a filly computerised storage system .
2 ‘ However , I am also aware that considerable counter pollution resources already exist in the Gulf area as a result of existing contingency plans to deal with spillages of oil from tanker casualties and other sources . ’
3 CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday .
4 It took about half an hour for the wave riders to travel from Minsterworth to Gloucester .
5 Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars .
6 The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) .
7 As soon as a board attempts to interfere with management tasks it 's a fair bet that profits will decline .
8 Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education .
9 1917 , at Semirechensk in Turkestan , Russian peasant representatives met to deliberate the subduing of the natives , and resolved to create vigilante groups to keep at bay those fugitives who were now returning ( Muslim sources claim 83,000 were killed ) .
10 The court 's decision cleared the way for the university authorities to approve in principal the raising of up to £5 million through the disposal of either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael .
11 The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry .
12 This is the spirit in which people are now collecting the details of new genes , and of new nucleotide sequences to go with them ; new proteins and their amino-acid sequences ; and novel membrane protein molecules , channels or receptors as they may be .
13 On the other hand , if the flying fantasy is out of reach , there is always the wind sail , or windsock , you can make from scrap leftovers to erect on a mast as a bright locator for your base on the field .
14 Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’
15 The Clairol model is the only spa to offer a choice of three speeds , the first of which causes your toe hairs to sway like daffodils in a light breeze ; the second bubbles gently like a pot of mung beans on simmer , and the third , to be used only when one feels particularly in need of a good rebirth , can cause orgasm in your achilles tendons .
16 But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent .
17 Away from the problems at Underhill , club chairmen gave the go-ahead for the launch of a fund to help finance ground redevelopment and aid clubs to comply with the Taylor Report .
18 To make sure you 're not dishing up any trouble for you or your family during the forthcoming festivities , Domestos has some simple hygiene rules to follow in the kitchen
19 A slick transfer put Hooks clear 40 metres out and he swerved inside one defender , and ran straight through two powder puff tacks to score under the posts for Mark McCall to convert .
20 Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives .
21 The final chapter attempts to deal with Piero 's writings .
22 This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council .
23 His European contacts have given him ideas — such as the Dutch government 's research projects to look into the specific health needs of the country 's future .
24 Each information officer will have a mix of new writing and rewriting , both short items and long items , as well as special research projects to look at how the information system is used in bureaux .
25 As it drove slowly away towards the town , so the small knot of idlers and gawpers dispersed , back to the quays and the eating houses to tell about what they 'd seen , and Huy and Merymose were left alone .
26 To take another example , peasants often form reciprocal labour groups to cope with periods of particularly high labour demand ( e.g. paddy transplanting , or preparing plots for burning in the forest for shifting cultivation ) .
27 Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends .
28 soc : Well , between those two extremes there is a whole range of theoretical perspectives and research methods to choose from , both qualitative and quantitative .
29 This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies .
30 Both the police and the AA , who had been urging football fans to travel to Wembley via the M25 and the A40 , avoiding Staples Cross , reported ‘ little difficulty ’ .
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