Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 2 | I , I wish to exercise my rights as Chairman to re-take this vote . |
| 3 | Some of the more important suggestions for change include new committee structures to allow qualified civilian staff to have information and knowledge to question military assumptions ; new congressional committees to review the need for new weapons systems ; laws to force people to disclose any bureaucratic and financial interests when dealing with the military and to stop Pentagon officials taking top jobs with defence contractors : and , budgeting systems which would ask for every existing military programme to be fundamentally reappraised every year ( zero-based budgeting ) . |
| 4 | However the specialist provision , the specialist palliative care remains the responsibility of the District Health Authority , and they have received extra funding for hospice work this year . |
| 5 | For text input some shape recognisers produce a single character candidate for each possible character , whereas others produce a string of alternative character candidates with an associated weight for each alternative for each possible character . |
| 6 | We 're also engaged with the European Community in discussion over a bid for funding to develop social work , child protection and alternatives to institutional care and to other child care systems within Romania . |
| 7 | Although its therapeutic use is limited by its effects on calcium metabolism , analogues such as calcipotriol produce little hypercalcaemia . |
| 8 | The intention of the environmentalists who had campaigned for the referendums was to make it necessary for parliament to pass new legislation , since this would give them the opportunity to press their demands for much stricter controls . |
| 9 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
| 10 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to erect three store signs on the Cornmill Centre . |
| 11 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : For permission to publish this paper , the authors thank the Department of Economic Development , Northern Ireland , on whose behalf the study was made . |
| 12 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The author is indebted to Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij and The Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium for permission to publish this paper . |
| 13 | AT&T said its decision follows British Telecom North America 's request to the US Federal Communications Commission for permission to offer international service between the US and several other countries , including the UK . |
| 14 | Ever hopeful , Ameritech Corp , Chicago yesterday proceeded with its plan and filed with the US Federal Communications Commission for permission to offer long-distance telephone service and cable television in return for surrendering its local telephone exchange monopoly . |
| 15 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to build new roof windows and a fire escape doorway at the Cornmill Centre . |
| 16 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that enormous changes have occurred in the social and cultural values of the western world , for instance emphasising individual freedom and material well-being . |
| 18 | However , in a high risk situation , for instance involving industrial property or property at the higher end of the market , a disclaimer might be reasonable . |
| 19 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 20 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
| 21 | One Protestant businessman in North Belfast who has rejected paramilitary demands for money said last week : ‘ Racketeering is n't anything to do with the cause of Ulster or loyalty . |
| 22 | Similarly , at interest rates below Oi l , the excess demand for money exerts upward pressure on interest rates . |
| 23 | Last year , his May campaign — national crime prevention week — cost £4.5 million , yet the three-months ' figures for crime following that expenditure showed an upsurge in crime . |
| 24 | Work on transforming derelict land turning former railway land at Primrose Hill , Stockton into a new park and reclaiming a former iron and steel works at Stillington for industry begins this summer with a £500,000 Government reclamation grant . |
| 25 | Proposals for action to halt global warming |
| 26 | There must be a strong case for action to prevent that sort of suffering in any animal , let alone the potential risk to human health . ’ |
| 27 | Dr Marjorie Mowlam , the MP who represents the Redcar victim has called for action to prevent aggressive selling . |
| 28 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 29 | Each man was sentenced to five years for conspiracy to defraud Lloyd 's of London of £1.8 million , five years concurrently for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from their firm — for which the £533,000 fine was also imposed — and 12 months concurrently for conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
| 30 | Simple measures ( stopping the oxytocin infusion , altering the mother 's posture , restoring blood pressure to normal ) often suffice ; techniques such as amnioinfusion deserve further investigation as alternatives to operative delivery . |