Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There have already been more than 50 attempts to extort money from America with nuclear threats , some frighteningly credible . |
| 3 | This concern was based on evidence that procedures available through the courts to enforce compliance with provisions of Part I of the Trade Union Act 1984 were not being used . |
| 4 | In brief , government policies to equalise access to services are more feasible , more politically acceptable and less costly than policies designed to equalise use , let alone outcome , of services . |
| 5 | Although enjoying a warm personal relationship with Mr Gorbachev , the American and West German wishes to promote disarmament on NATO short range missiles in 1989 have left her relatively isolated in the changed climate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | • Pethidine — usually given as an injection , it takes about 10–20 minutes to provide relief from pain . |
| 8 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 9 | Western attempts to meet force with force led to China 's declaration of war on the foreign powers the following day . |
| 10 | Attempts to exclude liability for negligence are governed by s. 2 . |
| 11 | Section 20 imposes a duty on local authorities to provide accommodation for children in certain circumstances . |
| 12 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 13 | BP 's case for a reduction in North Sea taxes to provide room for manoeuvre smacks of special pleading . |
| 14 | The Genoese , invited by Zacco , had freed a group of their merchants to pass Christmas with James in his Palace . |
| 15 | However , it has to be recognized that the whole concept of conservation areas would never have become established in many places without a willingness by local authorities to accept development behind facades . |
| 16 | Not everyone was convinced , however , and there were many efforts by anti-Darwinians to provide evidence in favour of alternative evolutionary mechanisms . |
| 17 | The original , dark Magoi were farmed in flooded rice paddies to provide protein in areas whose remoteness meant that every community needed to be self-sufficient . |
| 18 | Times to find character in brawls . |
| 19 | As we shall see , there may be good economic reasons to relate tax to property values , but this mismatch was perceived as unfair . |
| 20 | The second view of climatic geomorphology emerged much more in relation to attempts to relate process to climate and to emphasize the interrelation between the morphological , pedological , vegetational and climatic characteristics of the earth 's surface . |
| 21 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 22 | In our view it was Charles H. Cleveland 's ‘ Glite ’ for the North Pacific Products Co. which took the conical cambered diamond into the mass marketplace and stimulated the two-line variation of its basic single line operation ; but there was yet one other little known patent that pre-dated almost all these attempts to obtain control by rudder or lateral tension in the bridles . |
| 23 | This is the underlying truth which provides the reason for the failure of the world 's great religions to provide harmony on earth . |
| 24 | If conservationists manage to save the leopard , bobcat and alerce , they may lose some of the battles that will be fought over dozens of other issues including proposals to increase protection for hair seals and whales , to decrease protection for Nile and saltwater crocodiles , and to weaken controls in the trade in ivory and sea turtles . |
| 25 | Mr Dewar , Labour spokesman on social security , said at the weekend that Chancellor Norman Lamont 's Budget proposals to increase tax by £17 billion over the next three years would punish the nation — particularly the low paid . |
| 26 | If the master feels that a transfer should be considered , he will direct the court to give notice to the parties to attend court for consideration of the matter . |
| 27 | The European Commission has now decided to draft a proposal dealing specifically with heavy vehicle drivers to enforce harmonisation of working conditions and in particular to ensure a consistent definition of ‘ working time ’ as well as driving time . |
| 28 | Another common procedure is for the subjects to sit back to back . |
| 29 | It was left to her brothers to pass comment at lunch the following day . |
| 30 | ( On the duty on schools to provide information to parents on the pupil 's National Curriculum assessment , see the Education ( Individual Pupils ' Achievements ) ( Information ) Regulations 1990 , SI No. 1381 and circular No. 8/90 . ) |