Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Did anyone notice that the president of the Object Management Group wrote an open letter urging people out there to ask Microsoft Corp to have Object Linking & Embedding adhere to Object Group standards ?
2 The smoothness and evenness of the big engine 's power delivery helps the car 's handling and cornering ability as well and there is never any sign of wheelspin or torque steer under acceleration , which is endemic with powerful , front-wheel-drive machinery .
3 Synaptic junctions between neurons lie in the ganglionic neuropile ( especially the glomeruli ) , where associations occur between axon branches or dendrites .
4 Of course , individual sonnets of compliment to a male friend or patron exist in Renaissance poetry , but , as J. W. Lever wrote , summing up previous researches , ‘ there is no parallel in the whole corpus of Renaissance poetry to Shakespeare 's sustained exploration of the theme of friendship through more than a hundred and twenty sonnets ’ .
5 Experience of teaching both ESL and EFL is provided in further education colleges , where classes consist of adult immigrants and of students who will return to their home countries at the end of their course .
6 These three laws or principles relate to Creation , Preservation or Sustenance , and Dissolution or Destruction , which repeat themselves in a cycle and apply to all existing phenomena .
7 SBS is a term used to describe a vague , but apparently real , workplace problem , and may be suspected where staff complain of ill-health , headaches or problems with sore eyes , noses and throats .
8 Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand .
9 Dobermanns * See Dunbar , Neville & Fisher live on stage * Diabetic Dogs * Win 10 VIP Working Dog of the Year tickets * Pet Census Results * Acupuncture * New Dog Video …
10 L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it has signed a contract with its established Chinese co-operation partner Beijing Wire & Communications Plant for delivery of digital PABXes : the value of the pact is put at $88m .
11 The conditions of exemption or relief vary from agreement to agreement .
12 But caution is required where miracles come into play ; let us stick to the facts .
13 These military and familial idealised images of cooperation and conflict , then , break down in the face of current realities so there has to be another metaphor which can both explain and inform behaviour when conflicts or interests arise between management and work force .
14 I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents .
15 The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance .
16 High electric sockets , along with all gas supplies and vacuum , ensure no cables or tubes trail on floor .
17 Trade prices or discounts depend on volume but will start at around 40% .
18 The lovely Llyn Brenig close to Cerrigydrudion , is a new reservoir set in a timeless landscape , where facilities exist for fishing , walking on the moors and bird watching .
19 It is not sufficient for example to establish that for a given country inside the union exports and/or imports rise after integration .
20 Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres .
21 The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by .
22 But the " bottom line " is that excesses lead to illness .
23 These time-budget studies , as they are known , reveal that the amount of time that housewives spend on housework has not significantly changed for several decades .
24 Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens .
25 Rutter et al , in a detailed analysis of 12 schools in an inner London borough , make bold statements about the influence that schools have upon pupil attainment and behaviour .
26 Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types .
27 The proposals in the consultation document will go a long way towards improving the facilities and the standards that drivers expect from motorway service areas .
28 More than 60% of AT&T 's $36 billion of sales comes from telephone calls , the remainder from sales of telephone equipment — the big computer-like switches that work telephone exchanges , and the smaller ones , called PABXs , that offices use to route calls internally .
29 These findings suggest that VFAs combine with luminal H + ( thereby depleting CO 2 and generating HCO 3 - ) and are then absorbed passively in their protonated ( uncharged ) form .
30 These procedural provisions have their substantive counterpart in Article 2 ( 6 ) of the Charter , which obliges members to ensure that non-members comply with Charter principles for the maintenance of international peace and security .
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