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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It is about motivating people with neurological damage to achieve things for themselves , and in so doing , get more control over their lives .
2 William Day 's controversial story gained support from an unexpected source — PC Butcher , a constable at Newbury .
3 Indeed , there is little doubt that UDC success and economic advantage go hand in hand .
4 There were also apprentice schools attached to large manufacturers such as the Metropolitan-Vickers Apprentice School in Trafford Park , Manchester , which offered a dedicated form of secondary education for apprentices with that large electrical engineering firm , some of whom would also in due course seek employment with other electrical manufacturers .
5 He subsequently joined the merchant service , rising in due course to become commander of a transport vessel , in which capacity he accompanied one of the expeditions to Greenland led by Sir William Parry [ q.v . ] .
6 The likelihood of their establishing contact with an extraterrestrial civilization would therefore be yet further increased , because probes emanating from different civilizations would , with luck , run across each other , exchange information , and in due course establish communications between their parent cultures .
7 If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination .
8 In my view , that provision lends support to the view that a receiver appointed over the property of an unregistered company may be regarded as an administrative receiver within the meaning of the Act of 1986 .
9 She 's used some of that money to buy plaques for the three mine rescue teams who helped in the operation .
10 Thus , an image can be considered to be a mixture of components , each component representing variation at a particular scale .
11 It does n't matter that they have very little experience driving cars on our road .
12 The political story gave indications of following along parallel lines .
13 The assay system is based on the competition between unlabelled platelet activating factor and a fixed quantity of [ H ] labelled platelet activating factor for a limited number of binding sites on a platelet activating factor specific antibody .
14 Before printing a page , the printer 's processor assembles a complete bit mapped image into its memory .
15 In between , companies of the community would take it in turn on each hour to celebrate Offices in the house .
16 These devices are widely used by professional fund managers to gain highly cost-effective exposure to stock markets without having to buy the underlying shares .
17 Spennymoor super heavyweight Mike Hopper earned a place in the English semi-finals at Bletchley in a fortnight with a hard-earned majority points decision over Preston 's Rod Allan .
18 Each user does things in their own particular way and it is because of this flexibility that the spreadsheet program has achieved such widespread success .
19 The alternation of scenes in that play establishes verse as the appropriate medium for the Greek leaders engaged in the vita activa in their council-scene ( I.iii. ) , while for those hanging out in the vita inactiva in Achilles ' tent — Thersites , Ajax , Patroclus , Achilles — all too often the medium is a scabrous unheroic prose .
20 According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . "
21 That must apply in particular to the devastating decision to levy VAT on domestic fuels .
22 Full-time provision includes courses of one to three and four years ' duration , some of which may be studied as separate ‘ end-on ’ courses and many of which provide opportunities for transfer of suitable students to degree courses .
23 So I believe that the people making films have a strong responsibility to foster thought to the general public .
24 She alleged that the preparations for that contract took place in an atmosphere of secrecy .
25 That contract confers power on the directors of the company to manage the company .
26 Patients who achieved complete remission underwent endoscopy with biopsies every six months .
27 The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other .
28 Interestingly , Berghaus use a non-Malden fleece called Softlite for their Windstopper garments .
29 This need not be the case , since each level has information of its own to contribute to the overall picture , as well as selecting from the existing information .
30 Accompanying teacher 's books at each level provide answers to the exercises , ideas on how to extend them , and photocopiable tests .
  Next page