Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter .
2 But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J .
3 Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid .
4 Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd .
5 If there is to be a completion audit and the consideration is to be assessedor adjusted based upon this audit — which is often the case with an asset sale — what is the point of this warranty ?
6 As Windmüller ( 1984 ) has shown , employers ' associations were then further consolidated and entrenched during the interwar period ( although there were some marked exceptions ) since collective bargaining became institutionalised in this period in many countries .
7 A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility .
8 Guerilla campaigns and non-established religions tend to operate in this way .
9 After 15 months of tough talks , Moscow agreed to pull out most of its troops by Nov 15 this year .
10 He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay .
11 equipment , and in ‘ first-world ’ country sees no excuse to continue fishing in this manner : ‘ The counter-arguments of a handful of fishermen ... not representative of the industry ... should not be given any particular weight .
12 All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other .
13 In fact , this technique has led to some of my most successful parties where the parents join in and participate in the proceedings .
14 Rosemary Radford Ruether has worked in this way within Catholicism and the American ‘ Woman-church ’ movement .
15 The former management of woodland has resulted in many complex patterns and administrative arrangements , and great complexity may be expected from the documentary and topographical records .
16 Jim has to deal with any X-rays , lab reports . ’
17 When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up .
18 The APU has started along this course with the two independent evaluations of their surveys .
19 The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan , Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners .
20 Intervention of this kind has occurred in most countries .
21 Since the introduction of a differential fee , however , the number of visits in Berkshire undertaken by deputies has dropped by more than half , yet overall numbers have risen steeply .
22 It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy .
23 It is true that a considerable overlapping of insurance coverage has resulted from this basic arrangement .
24 SCOTTISH Natural Heritage has called for all ships carrying hazardous cargo to be banned from the Minches and Fair Isle Channel .
25 When the West wants to move into these markets adequate postal and telecommunications systems will be needed .
26 Regular topping up , for example , whenever the water level has dropped by half an inch , will make this task considerably easier .
27 A close working relationship between social scientists and medical genetics in Cardiff has led to this unusual and timely collaboration .
28 In the centuries between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the present time Split has lived under many regimes and nationalities .
29 Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst .
30 This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach .
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