Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 2 | Grosskurth suggests such a policy should include not only housing provision , but an adequate preparation for coping with independent living after years of dependent living in institutions . |
| 3 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 4 | The Oriental equivalent to chutneys , sambals are strong relishes for serving with Oriental foods , often based on amazingly hot peppers . |
| 5 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 6 | The immature deliberative faculty will mature ; children have the ‘ possibility apparent ’ of turning into rational beings ( Hobbes ) ; they love to be treated as though they were rational though they are not so yet ( Locke ) ; you can give the prerational child reasons for acting in certain ways and he will turn into the youth who is capable of having principles ( Kant ) . |
| 7 | This is predicated in the very reasons for embarking upon resource-based learning in the first instance . |
| 8 | Reasons for applying to particular institutions and courses |
| 9 | The main reasons for presenting for artificial insemination were infertility ( azoospermia ) or subfertility ( oligospermia ) of the partner ( 152 ( 30% ) and 236 ( 47% ) respectively ) . |
| 10 | A knowledge base represents information available to a variety of individuals involved in the construction of a building : this domain provides an opportunity for reasoning about various kinds of modality — possibility , necessity , temporal , causal etc . |
| 11 | While many day centres and day hospitals provide a ‘ social club ’ environment , the environment is highly segregated and normally provides little opportunity for mixing with other people outside the mental health system or at evenings or weekends . |
| 12 | There is a powerful case for moving in successive Budgets towards eliminating the irrational nature of Britain 's alcohol taxes and to taxing all alcoholic drinks on the same basis , whatever the kind of bottle in which it comes . |
| 13 | In our evaluation of the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms we considered over 100 publications on the subject before we chose the best available evidence for inclusion in the decision analysis — this is not the ‘ narrow range ’ claimed by Shearman and colleagues . |
| 14 | Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands . |
| 15 | Is there really a good case for returning to fixed exchange rates after this country 's unhappy experience from 1949 to the early 1970s ? |
| 16 | A major feature of the Committee " s ( and indeed the Board of Education " s ) automatic correlation of " English " with " Englishness " is its provision for dealing with certain " marginal " cultures . |
| 17 | With five separate power amplifiers on board the units can accommodate seven video sources and five separate audio source signals , with provision for mixing between various inputs . |
| 18 | These include specific skills for coping with acute , situational anxiety , such as muscle relaxation , programmed physical exercise , respiratory control , distraction techniques , and other cognitive therapy methods . |
| 19 | For business people needing to develop English language skills for negotiating with other English speakers and representing their firms in English-speaking environments throughout the world . |
| 20 | Some of his recent projects in his native Australia include films on catching crocodiles and on skills for surviving in arid regions . |
| 21 | Most US cities upgraded their riot technology , invested more in training and developed contingency plans for dealing with major disorder . |
| 22 | This new twist to the ever-more complicated story of Britain 's plans for dealing with nuclear wastes , was confirmed this week by the Central Electricity Generating Board 's chief witness at the Sizewell PWR inquiry , John Baker . |
| 23 | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) , frequently cited and more frequently violated , provides the framework for teaching about human rights . |
| 24 | Fremont , California-based Opus Systems Inc , which has been undergoing the trauma of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings — a sort of jail sojourn where the keys are left in the door — has announced the SparCard 2+ , its next generation Unix single board computer for plugging into personal computers , offering 25% performance improvement over its predecessor , the SparCard 2 . |
| 25 | In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes . |
| 26 | For many publishers it is a last , unpopular resort for dealing with useless stock . |
| 27 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 28 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 29 | These studies now suggest that CRP is the best single serum parameter for distinguishing between mild and severe acute pancreatitis . |
| 30 | The staff at school loathed him , but found his genius for getting into locked cars undeniably useful whenever they lost their car keys , which seemed to happen quite frequently . |