Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 2 | Grosskurth suggests such a policy should include not only housing provision , but an adequate preparation for coping with independent living after years of dependent living in institutions . |
| 3 | These personal responses to discussions of parental figures should be recognised by social workers in preparation for working in this area . |
| 4 | He says : ‘ Although I 've played next to no club rugby , I 've got lots of big match experience through playing in all the age-group teams England now run . ’ |
| 5 | The what 's the quick trick for multiplying by ten ? |
| 6 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 7 | A knowledge base represents information available to a variety of individuals involved in the construction of a building : this domain provides an opportunity for reasoning about various kinds of modality — possibility , necessity , temporal , causal etc . |
| 8 | While many day centres and day hospitals provide a ‘ social club ’ environment , the environment is highly segregated and normally provides little opportunity for mixing with other people outside the mental health system or at evenings or weekends . |
| 9 | The DES 's case for insisting upon more attention to be paid to subject competence in the training and deployment of teachers rests on two kinds of evidence , both of which are somewhat insubstantial . |
| 10 | The County Council does not however believe there is a justifiable case for moving towards any of the different positions sought by these objectors . |
| 11 | There is a powerful case for moving in successive Budgets towards eliminating the irrational nature of Britain 's alcohol taxes and to taxing all alcoholic drinks on the same basis , whatever the kind of bottle in which it comes . |
| 12 | In our evaluation of the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms we considered over 100 publications on the subject before we chose the best available evidence for inclusion in the decision analysis — this is not the ‘ narrow range ’ claimed by Shearman and colleagues . |
| 13 | Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands . |
| 14 | Is there really a good case for returning to fixed exchange rates after this country 's unhappy experience from 1949 to the early 1970s ? |
| 15 | Copies of Options for Equality in State Pensions Age — A Case for Equalising at 65 are available , price £5.85 , from HMSO . |
| 16 | A major feature of the Committee " s ( and indeed the Board of Education " s ) automatic correlation of " English " with " Englishness " is its provision for dealing with certain " marginal " cultures . |
| 17 | With five separate power amplifiers on board the units can accommodate seven video sources and five separate audio source signals , with provision for mixing between various inputs . |
| 18 | I make no excuse for quoting at some length from the Chatrier newsletter ‘ I have always said that the biggest problem we face in tennis is that there is too much money around . |
| 19 | If they were n't , and I 'm told that it was Babes In Toyland who were full of doughnuts , then what 's their excuse for sounding like this ? |
| 20 | If you receive payment for looking after one or more children who are not related to you , for 2 hours or more per day , then you should , by law , register with your local Social Services Department . |
| 21 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 22 | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) , frequently cited and more frequently violated , provides the framework for teaching about human rights . |
| 23 | Fremont , California-based Opus Systems Inc , which has been undergoing the trauma of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings — a sort of jail sojourn where the keys are left in the door — has announced the SparCard 2+ , its next generation Unix single board computer for plugging into personal computers , offering 25% performance improvement over its predecessor , the SparCard 2 . |
| 24 | In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes . |
| 25 | For many publishers it is a last , unpopular resort for dealing with useless stock . |
| 26 | These studies now suggest that CRP is the best single serum parameter for distinguishing between mild and severe acute pancreatitis . |
| 27 | The staff at school loathed him , but found his genius for getting into locked cars undeniably useful whenever they lost their car keys , which seemed to happen quite frequently . |
| 28 | Mum off teaching at some distant Employment Training Scheme . |
| 29 | The Montrose interest settled the question in this way through political pressure on the two candidates , for John Stirling was less than enthusiastic about sharing his responsibilities with Craigannet , and it was obviously hazardous to be joined in responsibility for accounting for public money with a colleague of whom the Stirling family had ‘ no good character ’ . |
| 30 | Many husbands took responsibility for saving for such major items of expenditure as furniture or even boots out of the money they kept back for themselves . |