Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
2 | Eliott Abrams , 43 , assistant secretary of state from 1985 to early 1989 , pleaded guilty in a federal court on Oct. 7 to two charges of illegally withholding information from Congress about covert US support for contra rebels in Nicaragua . |
3 | Revelations in the press in July about covert police funding of Inkatha , the Zulu-based organization led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi , led to a crisis in the National Party government , dubbed in the media " Inkathagate " . |
4 | And no firm can avoid the need for professional accountancy advice on a regular basis . |
5 | In their distinctly separate ways both the market model and the CAPM have taken the rather cumbersome analysis developed by Markowitz and the CML model developed by Tobin to a point which is of practical use for professional portfolio management . |
6 | ABS are the specialist brokers for Professional Indemnity Insurance . |
7 | For Professional Indemnity Insurance contact the Professionals : ABS ABS Insurance Agency Ltd |
8 | Clerical Medical is renowned throughout the financial market as offering consistency and value for money for professional investment management . |
9 | In the mid-80s two new focal points emerged : curriculum development ( mainly for professional media education ) and the Intercultural Panel ( investigating group communication and community activism ) . |
10 | The result of all this is a system called PROFS ( for PRofessional OFfice System ) , which gives every IBMer his ‘ fix ’ of information . |
11 | For the younger partner , progressive fiscal relaxation ( the Finance Act 1974 introduced earned income relief for professional annuity income and tax deductibility for payments by firms to retired partners and their dependants ) was adequate compensation for agreements to take goodwill out of account when making termination payments . |
12 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
13 | Between 1970–89 alcohol consumption increased during 1970–74 and 1984–89 , but was relatively stable during 1975–83 ( Fig 1 ) . |
14 | We believe , however , that further study is needed before firm recommendations about umbilical cord clamping can be made . |
15 | The approved estimates for 1991-92 show revenue at £39m , current expenditure at £25m , and capital expenditure at £14m . |
16 | Among the other revisions it proposed , the Department of Trade and Industry argued that the automatic grant for buildings and machinery that was available through regional development grant was to disappear . |
17 | Under the last Labour Government was not a subsidy of more than £1 million a day given to British Steel and to a number of other companies through regional development grant ? |
18 | Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda . |
19 | Financial services have a diversified range of job openings ; some call for broad marketing knowledge , some for human resources management skills and many call for specialists in the area of arbitrage , mergers and acquisitions , swaps , corporate finance , equity trading and research . |
20 | Its capabilities are based on a job model for collaborative process automation . |
21 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , has called for fifty pence rise in petrol prices to be phased in to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions . |
22 | Then came three blank stubs , lastly one filled in for fifty pounds cash . |
23 | We return to civilisation after a wash in cold water , a breakfast of buns and sour cream and a ride through knife-sharp mountain air . |
24 | With this in mind , the BBC has bought the rights to a clutch of old black-and-white feature films , which it hopes people will buy or rent for lazy Sunday afternoon viewing . |
25 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
26 | [ For imprisonment of Madani and Belhadj and subsequent demands for political prisoner status see pp. 38312 ; 38364 ; 38456 ; 38598-99 . ] |
27 | Similarly , for political parties ideology may play a significant role ( it is also a means of reducing information costs , allowing voters to predict party response ) . |
28 | However , the ordered pair of functions ( f1 and f2 ) that are associated with each node for possible text assignment , can only be judged from a vantage point external to the communicative situation . |
29 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
30 | Concerning your request for possible grant aid for the weekend in October I would think the Council would look favourably on your request once again . |