Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used language , the politician 's only weapon , to build a momentum for change sufficient to carry Labour to power on a modernising platform . |
| 2 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 3 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 4 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 5 | It is also possible to identify land scheduled for development in future years , particularly where the development of an area is delayed due to problems with infrastructure , for example where the release of land is delayed pending improvements to sewers or sewerage disposal facilities . |
| 6 | Occasionally , flights may be delayed due to circumstances beyond our control . |
| 7 | There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments . |
| 8 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 9 | Rural areas and subsistence-level farmers were neglected or actually excluded from the benefits which copper exports made possible in terms of schools , health facilities , agricultural inputs and credit ( Bwayla 1980 , Klepper 1980 , 1981 , ODG 1981 ) . |
| 10 | This is partly fuelled by an increased concern by enterprises with their environments , partly by an increase in the volume of potentially relevant information being published , and partly by improvements in the physical communication of information from source to recipient made possible by advances in IT . |
| 11 | In the context of cuts in military expenditure made possible by disarmament in Europe , a Defence Diversification Agency would administer a fund within the defence budget to supplement private resources devoted to diversification , in order to encourage investment in civil manufacturing and the retraining of workers within the defence industry . |
| 12 | But she conveyed an impression of someone much older because her movements were restricted by rheumatism and her limbs made frail by lack of proper nourishment over the years . |
| 13 | But the vote in April has fallen due for payment in September . |
| 14 | As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed . |
| 15 | However , as discussed in Chapter 1 , a clause excluding liability for failure to perform due to circumstances beyond his control ( usually called a " force majeure " clause ) is considered reasonable both commercially , and for the purposes of s 3 of the UCTA . |
| 16 | She relies heavily on tip-offs , in turn alerting county and metropolitan records offices about historic company records due for release by liquidators . |
| 17 | Now this will surprise you , I know ; but my mother has pointed that out time after time . |
| 18 | Olten is where the line from Zurich to Bern and on to the resorts of Lac Leman and to Geneva crosses that from Basle to Lucerne , the famous , is St Gotthard Pass , the Italianate Ticino , thence to Milan and Italy itself . |
| 19 | He had managed to fall asleep in spite of the lingering taste of the worm-cake in his mouth . |
| 20 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 21 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |
| 22 | We were in a street , the street so wide and the houses so distant across the other side that it might not have been a street at all ; and the houses lay low with gaps between them , so that the sky filled a large part of the picture . |
| 23 | ( i ) the practising certificate of any member is withdrawn due to non-renewal under Section 14(5) of the Solicitors Act 1974 provided that a new practising certificate is issued within two months of such expiry ; or |
| 24 | Given that over 20% of A-level papers are failed , that is reasonable : why gamble two years of lost earnings on studies that may leave you with no certificate at all ? |
| 25 | Simon Kellett hit 78 and left-hander David Byas 70 as Yorkshire made 341 against Surrey at Bradford . |
| 26 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 27 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 28 | When Veronica Sive first became interested in photography through a friend 's guidance , she became aware of the basic elements of the new medium . |
| 29 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |
| 30 | The ESRC first became interested in research on children in care at the end of the 1970s , following a request from Dr Barnardo 's to consider research needs in this area . |