Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It was also agreed that the options for storage/retrieval of information in the long-term would be examined , based on the FAOR proposals to move towards a filly computerised storage system . |
2 | It emerged also that air force commander Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and air force paratroopers commander Pavel Grachev had disobeyed the SCSE , Grachev ordering the Svirskaya paratroop division to withdraw from an attack on the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
3 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
4 | Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars . |
5 | To finance the programme the government would allow the federal budget deficit to rise from a projected A$6,800 million in 1992 to A$8,000 million in 1993 . |
6 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
7 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
8 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
9 | Cromwell allowed Antinomian preachers like Tobias Crisp and John Saltmarsh freedom to preach to the troops with whom this teaching was , naturally , very popular . |
10 | During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside . |
11 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
12 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
13 | The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry . |
14 | On the other hand , if the flying fantasy is out of reach , there is always the wind sail , or windsock , you can make from scrap leftovers to erect on a mast as a bright locator for your base on the field . |
15 | I telephoned a man who sells cocoa shell mulch to enquire about the material 's acidity . |
16 | We put on the billy and head for a coffee and warm , pausing at the tent entrance to brush off the snow that is heaped on our jackets and hoods . |
17 | Negotations are proceeding with a view to obtaining grant aid to help with the considerable setting up costs which will be involved and advice taken with regard to design and layout of exhibits . |
18 | He discusses the problems which occur in getting the user department and the computer department to agree upon a specification and the prolonged timescales often involved . |
19 | Tap the Up direction key to move to the start of the selection . |
20 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
21 | Dorling Kindersley , publisher of sparkling non-fiction guides to dinosaur , is launching a Dinosaur Club to cater for the large number of junior dinosaur fanatics . |
22 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |
23 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
24 | And news of the DoT decision to look at the interchange this week raised the hopes of green campaigners opposed to the cross-town route . |
25 | But now with a fifty billion pound deficit to contend with the Chancellor is expected to see VAT on books and newspapers as a useful source of income . |
26 | Away from the problems at Underhill , club chairmen gave the go-ahead for the launch of a fund to help finance ground redevelopment and aid clubs to comply with the Taylor Report . |
27 | To make sure you 're not dishing up any trouble for you or your family during the forthcoming festivities , Domestos has some simple hygiene rules to follow in the kitchen |
28 | A slick transfer put Hooks clear 40 metres out and he swerved inside one defender , and ran straight through two powder puff tacks to score under the posts for Mark McCall to convert . |
29 | Conversely , Halliday uses the term function to refer to the formal encoding of meaning within a grammar ( see , for example , Halliday 1985 ) . |
30 | There 's Hawaiian Tropic Aftersun Moisturiser , with tropical oils , and aloe rich , Cool Aloe Gel to apply through the long tropical evenings . |