Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 3 | Paulin for instance considers some lines from Aeneid 11 , in which Dryden makes Diomede say , of the war dead : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If one person is prevented getting AIDS by this officer , we 've paid for that person for two years , and I think practically every one of these posts that Queenie takes great offence at is producing a useful end product , and the other point is that Government legislation year after year after year puts more responsibilities on the City Council , the new Environmental Protection Act is a good example . |
| 6 | Inheritance For those people who have accumulated assets during their lifetime , leaving money , property and land to relatives after death represents another — and very significant — mechanism through which economic support is given in families . |
| 7 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 8 | The latest Plan for work reports that staffing levels now are almost as low as in 1974 , when the executive was formed . |
| 9 | By contrast , the availability of simple , rapid , reliable , and cheap screening tests for syphilis makes this STD amenable to routine antenatal screening . |
| 10 | Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic . |
| 11 | Mainly used for reference works such as dictionaries , encyclopedias , etc . |
| 12 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 13 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 14 | In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched , forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold . |
| 15 | Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable . |
| 16 | Part of the campaign against any form of discrimination has this problem : part of the success of any such campaign carries with it , by the yardstick of some , disbenefits . |
| 17 | Every year the technology of photography becomes more and more complicated . |
| 18 | The licensing of noise erodes that basic right . |
| 19 | Calculating the changes under multilateral abandonment of protection requires some assumptions on world prices , in particular that they would rise by more than under unilateral action . |
| 20 | The ‘ problem ’ of underachievement illustrates this particularly well . |
| 21 | At present , the bulk of an LEA adviser 's work involves helping teachers in a variety of ways , and , although this requires them to observe teaching , the act of inspection creates some tensions . |
| 22 | Her owner , Alan Ayres , claimed she was hit by a submarine , but the Ministry of Defence denies this . |
| 23 | The Ministry of Defence says all Wessex helicopters have been suspended as a precaution , until the cause of the crash is established . |
| 24 | The emphasis of the molecular level of description requires some justification . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Agriculture reports that passport applications have already topped the quarter-of-a-million mark but stresses that that does not mean that cattle for which a premium claim has been made will be sold immediately . |
| 26 | These pupils are shaped by many other factors than their schooling , and the extract from Coleman 's The Nature of Adolescence considers some of the main features influencing adolescent development and their relation to school . |
| 27 | No other kind of woodlouse does this . |
| 28 | This throws much weight on fuel diversity , about which the Statement of Case says little . |
| 29 | The second kind of case includes those where the agent 's personal normative position is affected by his consent , if it is valid , i.e. if it has its purported normative consequences . |
| 30 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |