Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the process soon got out of hand , for reasons having less to do with student need or the demands of a rapidly advancing subject than with professional status , it seemed that every American academic ( the glossy-text phenomenon is almost exclusively American ) would have to have his ( seldom , if ever , her ) own textbook . |
| 2 | In between projects allowing such personal statements as this , of course , Jordan has also worked increasingly in Hollywood , where he 's so far seen High Spirits cut to shreds and We 're No Angels ignored . |
| 3 | Because of the fact that unit costs only raise red flags , the onus is on any analyst who is comparing statistics between authorities to explore all the possible explanations for differences before coming to conclusions . |
| 4 | In the past Linfield have declined to take a case to the independent tribunal for they felt it was more appropriate for clubs to settle any dispute between themselves . |
| 5 | Possible mathematical experiences are given for activities involving each item . |
| 6 | In most Health Authority areas , increased employment of nurses was offset by reductions in the use of ancillary manual staff , even prior to the government 's imposed requirement for Authorities to put this work out to tender . |
| 7 | A TEN pin bowling competition between a LASMO Pakistan team and a group from HMS Chatham provided an opportunity for contestants to display some unusual techniques . |
| 8 | Ubiquitous , often cruel , jokes about mothers-in-law underline these ; how much pain they may give to some in the audience as they roll off the tongues of comedians . |
| 9 | More sensibly , it is quite possible that the manager is not earning returns as high as shareholders would like , yet that because it is costly for shareholders to gain enough additional information to improve the situation sufficiently to make it worthwhile whilst acting rationally , they appear passive . |
| 10 | It came into being to respond to two needs , a scientific need for machines more powerful than could be afforded by any single nation in a Europe devastated by the second world war , and the political need for institutions to unite that fragmented continent . |
| 11 | I hope that our reforms will make it possible for prisoners to do some useful form of work in prison . |
| 12 | It suggests an initial vetting of proposed accounting arrangements by an accountant , six-monthly checks of client accounts and a requirement for solicitors to send each five-weekly account reconciliation statement to an accountant as soon as it is produced . |
| 13 | His voyage last summer was remarkable even by his own high standards , as he sailed to Iceland , Jan Mayen and Svalbard and Northern Norway , achieving his objectives despite an unusually high incidence of headwinds , between times climbing many mountains and entertaining new friends in distant ports ( the St Patrick invariably carries a well-played selection of traditional musical instruments ) . |
| 14 | She will be expanding her world travel experience and in between times has many interests in and around Glasgow . |
| 15 | As we said earlier , the Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley faced demonstrators angry about plans to close another hospital in the region . |
| 16 | The day was a continuous series of interruptions so that it was difficult for clients to have any real period of rest and quiet . |
| 17 | Once an infection takes hold it is difficult for antibiotics to destroy all the bacteria , so some survive to start more trouble later . |
| 18 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 19 | The programme designed for schools to examine all aspects of the overt and covert curriculum begins with reflection on Catholic school philosophy and goals . |
| 20 | A further unforeseen difficulty for schools doing any kind of agricultural work has been the widespread drought of the mid-1980s , which is still affecting some parts of the country . |
| 21 | But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system . |
| 22 | These cases about valuers bear some analogy with cases on domestic tribunals , except of course that there need not be a hearing . |
| 23 | The difference in recognition memory-test performance between subjects given these two forms of verbal pre-training has been amply confirmed in several other experiments ( e.g. Ellis , Bessemer , Devine and Tafton 1962 ; Ellis and Feuge , Long and Pegram 1964 ) . |
| 24 | Nets , cartridge cases and ledges for decoys lay all around — revealing the Mediterranean passion for shooting and trapping birds . |
| 25 | The way of life of the Dalmatian peasants and fisherfolk , and of the citizens of the former Venetian colonies of Split , Šibenik and Zadar has for centuries resembled that of the Italians on the western shore of the Adriatic rather than that of their Slav cousins who inhabit the Balkan interior . |
| 26 | When digits are presented in pairs to left and right ears , there is an almost universal tendency ( Broadbent , 1954 ) for subjects to report all of the items presented to one ear before reporting those items presented to the other ear . |
| 27 | In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products . |
| 28 | Harriet and I as teenagers bashing each other into the lavender bushes . |
| 29 | Erm you know it just says about how they carry it out about subjects assumes that er the samples . |
| 30 | The criteria for deciding whether the banks would support an application for funds led many banks to the conclusion that , if a case warranted support , the government 's guarantee was superfluous , as a good business proposition was worth considering anyway — some have effectively withdrawn from the scheme . |