Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given a willingness on the part of the academic community , all the student freedoms I have cited — from the right of applicants to have their experiential learning taken into account in the admissions process , through allowing students a significant measure of control over their curriculum , to submitting to an assessment regime which is explicitly designed to allow students to do justice to the higher-order abilities they have acquired — could be assured to students . |
| 2 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | My paternal grandfather was a petty officer who , after keeping Edward the Seventh 's Royal Yacht spick and span — his trade was painter — died early from an illness acquired at the Defence of Ladysmith . |
| 4 | Just days after giving Jones a suspended sentence and a £20,000 ine , it emerged that the makers of ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , Video Vision , had paid Watershed — who have a deal with the FA — for footage . |
| 5 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's right , Faye , ’ Tom came in , after giving Belinda a long , frowning stare that made her words threaten to dry in her mouth . |
| 7 | Three weeks after taking office the new centre-right government introduced its 1990 budget , a revised version of the proposals presented by the outgoing Labour government . |
| 8 | Soon after taking office the National Party government estimated that the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1991/92 ( June 1992 ) would be NZ$3,700 million , rising to NZ$5,200 million at the end of fiscal 1992/93 . |
| 9 | Three days after leaving Alexandria the whole column met up with Timpson 's LRDG patrol , which was waiting for them . |
| 10 | As 20 stewards busied about serving guests a sumptuous feast , Diana happily chatted away to both president Mitterrand and Spanish foreign minister Don Javier Solana Madariaga . |
| 11 | As June Alexander pointed out , the benefit of allowing foals a placental transfusion was established by veterinary specialists long ago . |
| 12 | Whitehead ( 1978 ) and Williams ( 1977 ) have both offered perceptive critiques which suggest that , at the very least , Britton 's notion of writing modes the expressive , poetic and transactional — and his categories of audience should not be regarded as unproblematic . |
| 13 | I was full of joy at the prospect of meeting Agnes the next day . |
| 14 | This finding implies that not only is the total number of evaluated crypts a crucial criterion for a precise estimation of a proliferation index , but also the number of biopsy samples per subject being used for the evaluation . |
| 15 | In the case of drawn polymers the elastic constants bear relations to the draw ratio which are not simple . |
| 16 | Professor Murray 's study was interesting , however , I must point out that the report has made the common error of calling schizophrenia a split personality . |
| 17 | This is a brief section because , although there are many complicated methods of recording behaviour the simplest are generally quite sufficient . |
| 18 | Sometimes these accidents are caused by laziness , but more often they are the result of someone not realising the significance of doing things the right way . |
| 19 | He had three further drives for Lotus in 1969 : in South Africa he was sixth on the grid and dropped out with damaged gears ; on his first Nürburgring , he qualified twelfth and fell victim to a shunt on the first lap — one of his very rare accidents , for Mario has a finely honed sense of doing things the safe way . |
| 20 | One of the functions of the non-executive members will be find ways of giving professors a meaningful voice in the trust , and early consideration will be given to that . ’ |
| 21 | Whatever the strengths of this approach as a way of giving teachers a practical basis for beginning to change their practice , it carried the risk that some might presume that changing the physical arrangements of a classroom would of itself produce improved learning . |
| 22 | Though Sam was the younger of the two , he was not afraid of giving Carl a hard kick on the tochas ( arse ) if he had stepped out of line . |
| 23 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 24 | ‘ I think the public understands the question of giving firefighters a decent living wage and we will hope to take the public with us if there is industrial action . ’ |
| 25 | He believes the council is in danger of giving Darlington a bad image as an unemployment blackspot . |
| 26 | Which is the best way of giving rubbish a new life ? |
| 27 | It has attempted to climb above the condom in the fresher 's priorities list and announced that it is considering giving students a significant voice in the pay rises of their lecturers . |
| 28 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 29 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 30 | The recent controversies over both the Maastricht amendment and Workfare serve to betray the Conservatives ' real economic aim of making Britain the low wage centre of Europe . |