Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MBA Easiplan is specially designed for Trading/Service based businesses with up to 20 staff . |
| 2 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 3 | And in response to a growing shortage of skilled workers in Oxfordshire the county council recently held a seminar for employers to discuss child-care at work . |
| 4 | It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men — 30 was not uncommon . |
| 5 | The system is backed up by the Employers ' Liability ( Compulsory Insurance ) Act 1969 which makes it compulsory for employers to have insurance for personal injury to their employees . |
| 6 | It was common for sittings to take place in rooms contained in buildings whose primary purpose was to house other government departments . |
| 7 | A similar effect can lead to the summits of mountains in orogenic belts increasing in elevation as the incision of deep valleys between peaks causes unloading of the crust . |
| 8 | An emergency meeting has been called for clubs leasing stretches of the Macclesfield Canal in a bid to find a solution to an increasing mink problem . |
| 9 | As recorded by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) monitoring , he had made the observation that we humans have a short life , and tomorrow we are all going to die , but his last words touched on the need for a return to democracyand for Islam to keep pace with modernization : We see the states that have overtaken us : what did they overtake us with ? |
| 10 | Although it was quite usual for sons to follow fathers into the printing trade , the presence of so many sisters suggests that composing was quickly recognized as a good opening for a girl . |
| 11 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 12 | The most-quoted passage described the affluent American family taking a weekend outing in its mauve and cerise , air-conditioned , power-steered automobile passing through cities made tawdry by litter , blighted buildings and broken pavements , into the bill-boarded countryside where they picnic on packaged food by a polluted stream and camp out on a filthy parking lot . |
| 13 | AT first glance a charge for Environmental Tyre Disposal might seem like another way for garages to deprive motorists of cash . |
| 14 | Once the distinction between review and supervision is grasped , there is surely sense in having a special type of final appeal for cases involving issues of supervision , which allows more leisurely consideration of the issues than is possible in the Court of Appeal . |
| 15 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 16 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as the gilded eagle seems poised for take-off to do battle with enemy hordes coming from the south-east , the memorial seems to have anticipated most aptly the events that followed 17 years after its unveiling . |
| 18 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 19 | Profit diagrams can only be intelligibly drawn for strategies involving investments with the same expiry dates . |
| 20 | Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level . |
| 21 | Zenith employs an ex-programmer of Acme who is familiar with the program ; this person writes a program for Zenith using copies of listings and flowcharts that he retained . |
| 22 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 23 | The use of three-dimensional shapes for printing gives opportunity for the shapes themselves to be compared and discussed . |
| 24 | Azerbaijan 's Minister of the Interior , Iskender Khamidov , left for Nakhichevan to hold talks over the issue , denying that there had been a conflict . |
| 25 | Thus the power of corporate managers vis-à-vis society is legitimated because they are perceived as experts wielding power for the benefit of society generally . |
| 26 | A number of bills before Congress would make it easier for states to block imports of waste . |
| 27 | But where , as here , the regime exercises virtually no administrative control at all in the territory of the state , international recognition of an unconstitutional regime should not suffice and would , indeed , have to be accounted for by policy considerations rather than legal characterisation ; and it is , of course , possible for states to have relations with bodies which are not states or governments of states . |
| 28 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 29 | The Implications of Changes in Employment Opportunities for Decision Making Processes in the Household |
| 30 | Miklós Mojzer addressed the problems of the art trade in Hungary , where as yet no lists exist for objects considered part of the national heritage , while Lubomir Slavicek focused on financial , management , and display problems at the National Gallery in Prague . |