Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Mr got erm I understand that no convictions , even for armed robbery itself .
2 For eleven men there was one latrine bucket .
3 You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates .
4 But , of course , the £50 deposit , at a time when the annual wage was less than £500 , was a powerful deterrent to all but the wealthiest families and remained so until the Baldwin Fund agreed to put up the money for children without guarantors or for foster parents who could not afford to pay .
5 The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course .
6 It is helpful to realize that tinnitus is now widely recognized ; courses are run for professional people who meet tinnitus sufferers ; there is much research which is continuing .
7 Under such a concept the ‘ core ’ is the central base for professional staff who are engaged in the rehabilitation and personal development of individuals living in the homes ; it may also serve as a training base for staff , a research base for the evaluation and monitoring of the service and a place where the residential care staff meet to exchange ideas .
8 A separate tier of authorisation is through Recognised Professional Bodies ( RPBs ) for professional organisations which applied to the SIB to be able to authorise their members to give investment advice which is incidental to their main area of business .
9 This finding , however , conceals the fact that working-class males in these two categories of illness are likely to visit their doctor to obtain sickness certificates — a procedure which is not so necessary for professional employees who receive sick pay from their employers .
10 I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’
11 Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ?
12 Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 .
13 In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes .
14 Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really
15 Rawls ' Kantian constructivist approach to ethics suggest an argument for political neutrality which is in part independent of the one criticised above and which turns on autonomy :
16 A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending .
17 On Aug. 13 the government announced that substantial agreement had been reached with the ANC on the details of an amnesty for political offenders which would " wipe the slate clean and bury the past " .
18 Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 .
19 Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion .
20 Underground groups which had operated inside Kuwait against the Iraqi forces issued demands for political reform which mirrored calls made by exiled opposition leaders .
21 In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support .
22 The project seeks a balance between constructive criticisms of existing curricula and concrete proposals for innovative developments which respond actively to changing conditions in the wider world .
23 It is therefore quite impossible to suggest amendments to all permutations of the obligations currently being imposed on tenants , but the tenant 's adviser should be watchful for new variations on an old theme and indeed for innovative covenants which could cause the tenant a good deal of anxiety .
24 The equivalent questions for eighteen year olds ask about specific skills which young people have been shown to need ( and often to lack ) when they leave local authority accommodation to live independently ( Stein and Carey , 1986 ) .
25 Without information about specific incidents it is not possible to develop a methodical analysis , nor is it likely that effective strategies for prevention will be found .
26 When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College .
27 ‘ You know , you really ought to do something about that razor you 've been using ! ’
28 I was just telling him , they 've got big ones like that about that size I think in in Woolworths .
29 Have you read about that boy who 's his
30 ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said .
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