Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lamont , the Chancellor , has forecast a borrowing requirement of £28 billion for 1992–93 to pay for the recession , modest Budget tax cuts and extra public spending . |
| 2 | It now seems easier for Scots to get into a Great Britain senior team than it is to get into the Commonwealth Games team . |
| 3 | As a result of both of these considerations , it is most unusual for MAS to act for a buyer on a contingent fee basis ( other than an MBO or MBI team , and then only on a selected basis with a suitable risk reward ratio . ) |
| 4 | But as Steven also said , this was no reason for Labour to vote against the Treaty . |
| 5 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 6 | For light travelling radially in a region described by the Schwarzschild metric , eqn ( 4.10 ) , with , becomes Then if a star shrinks to a radius less than r the time taken for light to emerge from the spherical surface at r becomes infinite , which confirms Michell 's conjecture . |
| 7 | The former enshrines the major cavity properties : E1 is the incident field amplitude ( normally zero in a laser ) ; t is the time for light to propagate from the cell output around to the input , equal to ( " : - — L ) /c ; 8 is the cavity mistuning , whose physical significance is best examined for the empty cavity , in steady state , whence and thus The cavity field thus has resonances spaced at intervals of in 8 , which are very sharp if R is close to unity ( high-finesse resonator ) . |
| 8 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |
| 9 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |
| 10 | In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing . |
| 11 | However , for this to act as an effective discipline , the market must believe that the government would not rescue the firm if bankruptcy actually did occur . |
| 12 | I take the reasons for this to lie in the heroic myth shared by doctors and public . |
| 13 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 14 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 15 | Good after that to return to the big glass . |
| 16 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 17 | Totemism originated after this to cope with the guilt the brothers felt , for the totem animal will protect them like a father , and they will love it , and not kill it under normal circumstances . |
| 18 | The findings of a recent sociological study , based on retrospective reflections of former ‘ flak helpers ’ , then fifteen- or sixteen-year-olds and called up from their schools from the beginning of 1943 to assist in the manning of anti-aircraft batteries , suggest that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was in rapid decline from 1942–3 onwards . |
| 19 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 20 | I want a sample of that to go to the Met Lab urgently . |
| 21 | I also got two fleshy herrings and a couple of smoked mackerel ( and a few tiny pieces of sole to put in the freezer as , sadly , John 's nephew and nice Irish girlfriend can not come to supper this weekend — they were IMMENSELY cheering and encouraging when here recently ) . |
| 22 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 23 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 24 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
| 25 | These masks only allowed a small amount of light to escape through a central slot , which could be covered by a red slide to convert it to a tail lamp . |
| 26 | The most commonly-used light source is a discharge lamp , generally with a collimating capillary which allows a pencil of light to escape into the sample region without permitting sample to flow back into the discharge . |
| 27 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 28 | The grammatical similarity of this to talk of a person feeling , say a pin in his foot might lead one to suppose that pains are in parts of one 's body in the same way as pins , wounds and broken bones , are in parts of one 's body ; that is , that they differ from these latter only in being invisible , intangible , and so on : they are the proper objects of the sense of pain . |
| 29 | He joined the staff of the School in the summer of 1932 to help with the art teaching and he was more specifically attached to the Junior School . |
| 30 | The allies could decide which of these to use in a given crisis . |