Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 2 | And there is something about rail travel that is essentially Canadian : the US , deep down , was always a stagecoach society , wayward and unpredictable ; trains seem right for Canada , exciting but disciplined . |
| 3 | I , I wish to exercise my rights as Chairman to re-take this vote . |
| 4 | However the specialist provision , the specialist palliative care remains the responsibility of the District Health Authority , and they have received extra funding for hospice work this year . |
| 5 | In the present case the poles of are from equation ( 12.4 ) simply and rejecting the pole the procedure for finding yields This being the physically realisable transfer function , in it is restricted to being imaginary and , checking back , when expression ( 12.6 ) is indeed the transfer function in agreement with equation ( 12.3 ) . |
| 6 | For text input some shape recognisers produce a single character candidate for each possible character , whereas others produce a string of alternative character candidates with an associated weight for each alternative for each possible character . |
| 7 | During the day there were so many people visiting the Zoo that there was no chance for Minch to teach those things she thought Creggan should know . |
| 8 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 9 | This was followed in the case of Ellen Street Estates Ltd. v. The Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1934 ) where the court found that it was impossible for Parliament to enact that , in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter , there should be no implied repeal . |
| 10 | Claiming that health workers ' fears were being overcome and that there was now a much better understanding of the plans , Mr Clarke said : ‘ There are volunteers all over the service waiting for Parliament to approve these provisions so we can get on with it from next summer onwards . ’ |
| 11 | Nor is there any means for Parliament to discuss these circulars . |
| 12 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
| 13 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : For permission to publish this paper , the authors thank the Department of Economic Development , Northern Ireland , on whose behalf the study was made . |
| 14 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The author is indebted to Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij and The Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium for permission to publish this paper . |
| 15 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 16 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 17 | Paulin for instance considers some lines from Aeneid 11 , in which Dryden makes Diomede say , of the war dead : |
| 18 | Nevertheless , parents will often impose their judgement , for instance condemning some pop music as " decadent " or just plain crude , and insisting that some children 's food brands are a rip-off ! |
| 19 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
| 20 | So decisions as to venue for trial constitute another important set of pre-trial decisions for which responsibility rests largely with magistrates ( though defendants have a right to elect for trial in the Crown Court , even if the magistrates would be prepared to accept jurisdiction ) . |
| 21 | Furthermore , eligibility for statutory payments declined down the occupational ladder and those eligible for payment earned more than those ineligible — findings particularly significant for women . |
| 22 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 23 | Thus , the demand for money ( MD ) depends : ( a ) directly on national income ( as a rise in national income will reflect a rise in the total value of transactions and so will increase the demand for money to finance these transactions ) ; and ( b ) inversely on the rate of interest ( as a rise in the rate of interest will make it more attractive to hold financial assets , and less attractive to hold money , whether as part of an individual 's wealth holdings or as an outcome of a speculative activity ) . |
| 24 | The implication is that responsibility for running vocational courses will rest with colleges , who will themselves apply to the funding council for money to run such vocational courses . |
| 25 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 26 | Last year , his May campaign — national crime prevention week — cost £4.5 million , yet the three-months ' figures for crime following that expenditure showed an upsurge in crime . |
| 27 | The need for industry to employ more people who can speak another language is recognized by Kenneth Baker , as this comment shows : |
| 28 | Work on transforming derelict land turning former railway land at Primrose Hill , Stockton into a new park and reclaiming a former iron and steel works at Stillington for industry begins this summer with a £500,000 Government reclamation grant . |
| 29 | There must be a strong case for action to prevent that sort of suffering in any animal , let alone the potential risk to human health . ’ |
| 30 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |