Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , therefore , a strong case for bringing an open mind to the richness of the subject . |
| 2 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |
| 3 | A large number of authors may be required in a study for various reasons : ( a ) the need for a large team of technically specialised laboratory workers ; ( b ) the need to accrue scarce resources for study , such as clinically derived material ( human tissue , blood samples ) or patients with rare diseases ; or ( c ) the inherent labour intensiveness of a given project , such as cloning an unmapped gene or cooperative management of a large clinical trial . |
| 4 | Thus , the school work in this first term consists of five complete mornings in school during which the time is divided between helping an individual child with his/her reading , and working with a small group of older children . |
| 5 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 6 | Bureaux and micros are not suitable , so a choice must be made between using an in-house mainframe and buying a mini . |
| 7 | The plaintiff did recover against his employer for using an unsafe system of work . |
| 8 | Where a company supplies estimated figures which prove to be unreasonable , this will not invalidate the return for the purposes of s 11 , but may render the company liable to penalties under s 96 for submitting an incorrect return . |
| 9 | The proposals , according to Land , add up to ‘ what is probably the best possible programme for building an information-technology Concorde ’ . |
| 10 | Improved performance is obtained through building an ultra-thin channel of silicon-germanium alloy under the silicon surface of the mosfet to restrain mobility of the charges carrying current through the device . |
| 11 | I had just sent in last month 's article on the rib transfer carriage and shadow lace , when I received a letter from Mr David Dick of Irvine , Ayrshire , asking about knitting an embossed lace pattern using the ribber . |
| 12 | 1.2 SCOTVEC , as custodian of the National Certificate Catalogue of module descriptors has a responsibility for maintaining an up-to-date provision . |
| 13 | The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation . |
| 14 | The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity . |
| 15 | However , where the vessel constitutes an instrument for pursuing an economic activity which involves a fixed establishment in the member state concerned , the registration of that vessel can not be dissociated from the exercise of the freedom of establishment . |
| 16 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 17 | As the cell proceeds down a pathway genes are switched on and off reflecting an internal programme , for external signals only act at the branch points , directing the cell along one or other of the paths open to it . |
| 18 | HCIMA has published Guidelines for producing an Environmental Policy , as one of its initiatives linked to environmental issues . |
| 19 | Through it Widgery became involved with another student venture , U Magazine , and managed to become its editor without even being a student , having been expelled from school for producing an irreverent magazine . |
| 20 | This task is more difficult than the tagging problem and the results have been , understandably , less impressive ( approximately 50% success rate for producing an acceptable parse ) . |
| 21 | Cher , who left the instruction on her tape to an expert , scored above average marks for producing an entertaining workout although not one for beginners . |
| 22 | These included the British Aerosol Manufacturers Association , for suggesting that all domestic aerosols were now " ozone-friendly " ( despite the fact that some still contain ozone-damaging chemicals ) ; NIREX , the nuclear waste agency , for producing an over-simplified version of the problem of nuclear waste disposal ; and the Young Telegraph newspaper , for running a promotion sponsored by the BASF chemical conglomerate , which included copy presenting what FoE claim is an over-flattering account of BASF 's safety record . |
| 23 | Thus , DNA-dependent phosphorylation of Spl might be an effective mechanism for generating an active transcription factor only when and where it is needed . |
| 24 | These included the elimination and/or simplification of existing manual systems with subsequent savings in staff effort and the more tedious tasks such as producing an alphabetical listing ( nominal roll ) of employees or identifying those employees coming up for retirement . |
| 25 | For example , family responsibilities such as helping an elderly relative with shopping , or parents and children being unconvinced about the quality and relevance of what the school has to offer make regular attendance seem less important . |
| 26 | You can create many different patterns , such as hanging an oval picture between two rectangular pictures . |
| 27 | For example , meteorological in the phrase meteorological expert can be , and will be , restrictive but , as we have shown in Chapter 2 , it is not to be ascribed to the entity of its head noun ; quite generally , there is not the least problem about using an associative adjective restrictively . |
| 28 | It 's always worth keeping an odd earring , when you 've lost its partner , for just such projects . |
| 29 | Chapter 5 ( " Word Play in Action " ) promises at least a look at the socio-linguistic context of jokes , with particular emphasis on , and analysis of , real joke-capping sessions ; and Chiaro is to be commended for tackling an interesting aspect of joke-telling , in relation to discourse analysis , that has generally been neglected in book-length studies . |
| 30 | Meanwhile my interest in the film industry through Hellen Semmens was not the only reason for becoming an active member of the Vancouver Film Society — I have always been interested in films for their own sake . |