Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways . |
| 2 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 3 | This uninspiring performance is despite the fact that West Germany supplies about one-third of gas demand from indigenous reserves . |
| 4 | Right : Laminated pine type GGL Velux window turns through 180 for easy cleaning |
| 5 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 6 | Given constraints on public expenditure , it is unlikely that the Government could be persuaded to introduce maintenance grants for 16 to 18-year-olds . |
| 7 | But I expect that goes for millions of unnecessary car owners ! |
| 8 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 9 | And the same goes for most of the members of the club . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , erm , I had in mind that , is there a seconder to that ? my own view is that erm , and that goes for most of the way for dealing with the problem , but I think it would be appropriate for this committee to make it clear that erm , any extension of the maximum aggregate for the current financial year will be met by an appropriate reduction or a corresponding reduction in the expenditure for ninety four ninety five , erm and I 'm not certain that that 's absolutely clear to the public or indeed to all members of |
| 11 | But now I draw outside , I think that goes for both of us — we draw outside and then paint indoors . |
| 12 | We are all special to him , and he longs for each of us to enter into the space and privileges of his home . |
| 13 | Most of the fen drains for most of the time are somewhere in between these two extremes making the whole business a little undecided . |
| 14 | At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later . |
| 15 | It has 10% of world proven oil reserves , second only to Saudi Arabia , and in terms of probable oil resources holds about one-seventh of the world 's potential . |
| 16 | It may happen that the optimal tableau of LPk for some k has for all in a row i containing a structural variable x r and is not integral . |
| 17 | The human race has for thousands of years been aware of powerful links between tears and health . |
| 18 | And for good reason ; the Labour Party , after all , has for most of this century been the most obvious and visible manifestation of working-class political activity . |
| 19 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 20 | For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain . |
| 21 | The usual characters of the two composers are reversed here ; there is little of the English scene-painter in Britten 's Sonata , and it stands as one of his most nervous and angry works . |
| 22 | CPIM , which stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management is an association of industry professionals who have achieved a CPIM diploma . |
| 23 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 24 | The Junior Section has between 30 to 40 members but some are to be promoted to the Senior Section which has fewer members . |
| 25 | This means that the Board will have issued exposure drafts for 10 of the 11 standards affected by the Statement of Intent . |
| 26 | For the initial tests trace statements were inserted to obtain the pixel counts for each of the range of exposures used to compute the two bounds . |
| 27 | A first-class honours degree from a college of higher education still counts for less in the world than a third-class degree from Oxbridge , and even less than a sporting ‘ blue ’ from the ancient universities . |
| 28 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 29 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 30 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |