Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 2 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 3 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 4 | His ideas for change would involve some regrouping of staff , and some need for training with new computer software . |
| 5 | If we were to do that , I would not rule out any particular proposed change to the role and structure of the district councils , but proposals for change would need to be likely to command widespread support and to provide an appropriate and fair role for both sides of the community . |
| 6 | Though the task of both understanding the situation and working for change may seem daunting , my experience of the Philippine health movement leaves me reassured . |
| 7 | More fundamentally , the view that pressure for change could have been indefinitely held in check by resolute repression overrates the resources available to unrepentant autocracy . |
| 8 | Discussing revolutionary situations , for instance , he remarks a trifle sadly that ‘ unless the revolutionary organisations have a conscious and adequate strategy ’ , which they frequently lack , opportunities for change will go unnoticed . |
| 9 | Demands for change will continue , but it is difficult to imagine substantial progress being made in the current climate , as broadcasting , and the media in general , becomes increasingly unaccountable to society as a whole . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , proposals for change will become less likely as the lessons of the recent attempts to break the mould of Conservative journalism sink in . |
| 11 | It calls for an alliance between environmentalists , consumer organizations , churches and trade unions , but concludes that the real impetus for change will come when Southern countries challenge the North 's addiction to consumer lifestyles . |
| 12 | Through this dense mesh , proposals for change must pass . |
| 13 | For example , the formal machinery of collective bargaining , and the ‘ culture ’ of industrial relations that builds up around it , acts as a filter through which external pressures for change must pass . |
| 14 | Those readers who have applied to traditional funding organisations for support will know that their ideas will be subjected to independent ‘ peer ’ review ; that is , comments are invited ( often in secret ) from those working in related fields on the quality of the proposed research and its chances for success . |
| 15 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 16 | He said they were facing particularly strong competition from a Korean consortium , but he was confident Cleveland 's reputation for reliability would prove the decisive factor . |
| 17 | But the mining of coastal coral for building must stop or the protection which it gives against waves and flooding will be lost . |
| 18 | Bowbazaar links Calcutta 's business district with the hugely-crowded Sealdah suburban railway terminus and an explosion of this intensity during daytime would have killed hundreds of people , he said . |
| 19 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 20 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 21 | Humanist psychology 's caution about change can add to egalitarian feminist psychology 's existing theoretical timidity . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will make a further statement shortly . |
| 23 | At least , not what anyone who knows about money would call money . |
| 24 | The Open School 's approach of learning more fully through experience will help enable Johannesburg 's black children move on from being the victims of apartheid to grasping and using the challenges now facing them in the changing South Africa . |
| 25 | Changing the content of a problem from a stereotypically ‘ female ’ setting such as nutrition to a ‘ male ’ setting such as building can reverse the rank order of the success rates of groups of boys and girls . |
| 26 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 27 | ‘ The energies expended on continually fighting for funding could have been put to more practical use but the decision vindicates that effort , ’ she said . |
| 28 | The future pressures to constrain the improvement of hill land for agriculture will have to be assessed in relation to the declining area of hill land and the need for meat production from this resource . |
| 29 | Rather more seriously , he accuses her of being a liar , and claims that large parts of her story ( her autobiography is an international best-seller ) ‘ are not actually true ’ and that ‘ a Nobel Prise for Literature might have been more suitable ’ . |
| 30 | Responsibility for provision may change without corresponding changes in the source of finance . |