Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INMATES at Penninghame Open Prison near Newton Stewart , Wigtownshire , have been praised for helping to combat under-age drinking in the area . |
| 2 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 3 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 4 | THE Social Fund — which was intended to target social security on the poorest — has failed , according to a report published today . |
| 5 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 6 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 7 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 8 | The change is the result of the 1989 Water Act which privatised the water industry and make it illegal for water companies to continue using ratable value as the basis for charging for water after March 2000 . |
| 9 | Partly-exempt businesses , which previously used the value of taxable ( including zero-rated ) and exempt supplies to determine input tax recovery , are allowed to continue using those calculations by including the value of outside-the-scope supplies with the right to input tax recovery in the value of taxable supplies , and including the value of outside-the-scope supplies without the right to input tax recovery in the value of exempt supplies . |
| 10 | In Northamptonshire , the NCC is opposing Kettering District Council 's plans to build Cransley Lodge , a village planned to include 750 houses by 1997 . |
| 11 | We planned to include 10 plants from each collection in the bank , enough to offset the risk of trees dying through disease or neglect , while keeping the overall area within manageable limits . |
| 12 | It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers . |
| 13 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 14 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 15 | As a result the company has stopped accepting fresh landings of scallops |
| 16 | These incentives , together with controls on the location of industry , have formed the main body of regional policy measures developed to promote industrial growth in the assisted areas . |
| 17 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 18 | Intended to support economic reforms over a 10-month period , the credit would be issued in four tranches . |
| 19 | The funds , amounting to 12 billion ecus per year , are intended to support infrastructural developments in the Community 's poorer regions . |
| 20 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 21 | It was generally assumed that Chamberlain would prefer to sacrifice imperial interests in a compromise with Hitler , than to join the USSR in an anti-fascist alliance . |
| 22 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 23 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 24 | Figure 4.3 ( opposite ) ( a ) Contour map produced using dot-graphics functions on a Mannesman-Tally MT86 dot-matrix printer . |
| 25 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 26 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 27 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 28 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 29 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 30 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |