Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study is concerned with the way Pakeha ( white ) New Zealanders make sense of race and race related issues , such as the violent protests against the Springbok tour , Polynesian and British immigration , and the position of New Zealand Maoris . |
| 2 | The pact , signed at the end of a conference in the Finnish resort of Rovaniemi , calls for the creation of co-operative programmes to monitor pollution by oil , radiation , heavy metals , organic contaminants , acidification and noise . |
| 3 | Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well . |
| 4 | The most-quoted passage described the affluent American family taking a weekend outing in its mauve and cerise , air-conditioned , power-steered automobile passing through cities made tawdry by litter , blighted buildings and broken pavements , into the bill-boarded countryside where they picnic on packaged food by a polluted stream and camp out on a filthy parking lot . |
| 5 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 6 | Remand and convicted prisoners lived side by side . |
| 7 | Groups please book in advance . |
| 8 | Figure 4.3 includes the test results for a pair of groups given pre-exposure to saccharin before being conditioned and tested with milk . |
| 9 | " Until foreign wages are the same as British wages , any extra demands on British employers mean loss of trade " . |
| 10 | Both groups favour investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources . |
| 11 | This year Will and his team , under the supervision of Dr Jim Fowler , are fixing radio transmitters to the feathers of a number of individual birds to monitor behaviour by radio-tracking . |
| 12 | If the present set of essays exhibits independence of mind , this is no less than she would wish or expect . |
| 13 | The EcoSystems products provide functionality for configuration management , performance management , fault management , capacity planning , automated operations and management reporting , and support Unix servers with Unix , MS-DOS or terminal clients . |
| 14 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 15 | The first of these Tracking and Data Relay Satellites entered orbit on board a space shuttle earlier this week , but later ran into trouble when its second booster failed . |
| 16 | Western attempts to meet force with force led to China 's declaration of war on the foreign powers the following day . |
| 17 | Dipper birds provide indicator of acid rain |
| 18 | Attempts to exclude liability for negligence are governed by s. 2 . |
| 19 | BP 's case for a reduction in North Sea taxes to provide room for manoeuvre smacks of special pleading . |
| 20 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 21 | Lyn Skelton of the Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Trading Standards says : ‘ The regulations only apply if toys are sold in the course of business and it is the definition of ‘ course of business ’ that is the crux of the matter . |
| 22 | The Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Trading Standards ( LACOTS ) and the National Metrological Co-ordinating Unit have invited Trading Standards Authorities to submit information for inclusion in their fourth edition of the above Index . |
| 23 | Not everyone was convinced , however , and there were many efforts by anti-Darwinians to provide evidence in favour of alternative evolutionary mechanisms . |
| 24 | Visual stimuli sometimes play a role here and Mittelstaedt ( 1950 ) found that Anisopteran dragonflies always fly with the dorsal surface orientated towards the light , while optomotor reactions regulate flight in relation to movements of the visual field in many insects . |
| 25 | The policies provide cover for death of the Policyholder or spouse in circumstances which are clearly detailed in the policy . |
| 26 | 2* Contents — 5* Maxplan Contents policies and both Buildings policies provide cover in respect of loss or damage caused by Smoke . |
| 27 | The policies provide cover in respect of the Policyholder 's interest and buyer 's interest when the Policyholder has agreed to sell his house , up until the date on which the contracts are completed or date on which the missives are signed . |
| 28 | The policies provide cover in respect of architects , surveyors , legal and any other fees which are necessary to rebuild , repair or replace the home , following destruction or damage insured under the policy . |
| 29 | As we shall see , there may be good economic reasons to relate tax to property values , but this mismatch was perceived as unfair . |
| 30 | Regional geochemical maps provide information on background levels of metals against which environmental degradation can be monitored . |