Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heart fit to burst through tension , at last , a noise . |
| 2 | Statutory undertakers wishing to carry out development which is neither ‘ permitted development ’ nor authorised by a government department have to apply for planning permission to the local planning authority in the normal way , but in the case of ‘ operational land ’ appeals are considered jointly by the secretary of state and the ‘ appropriate minister ’ . |
| 3 | Id have to go for Lorimer tho . |
| 4 | Technical publications on computer abuse , security and auditing tend to focus on input , output , access , software and processing controls , while the media is all too often preoccupied with the potential threat posed by viruses and hackers ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April , p 102 , 103 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Such conflict as may in any given circumstance appear to arise between rule 33 ’ — of the Coroners Rules 1953 , the equivalent of the present rule 42 — ‘ and the duty to inquire ‘ how ’ must be resolved in favour of the statutory duty to inquire whatever the consequences of this may be . |
| 6 | As usual the ‘ big race ’ will lure the top names and Lisburn Borough Council expect to have in action ‘ 26 miles ’ specialist Peter O'Donoghue of Omega , who had a PB last year and Annadale 's John Walsh … and they are also confident that last year 's winner , Jerry Kiernan of Clonliffe Harriers , will take the starter 's gun with the intention of making it a hat-trick . |
| 7 | The amount of money companies like Sun stand to save on testing and retesting applications is substantial . |
| 8 | Conversely , creative jobs in advertising , television or merchant banking seem to thrive on uncertainty and attract people much less interested in power in a managerial sense . |
| 9 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 10 | 9 A late evening walk to search for glow worms in Folkestone . |
| 11 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 12 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 13 | Do nuances within this relationship continue to reverberate throughout life ? |
| 14 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 15 | Some solids — ionic solids , for example tend to shatter under stress . |
| 16 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 17 | Though definitions of what is the appropriate methodology for a subject tend to shift over time , at present , teachers of certain subjects — modern languages in particular — seem strongly inclined to a transmission approach to teaching . |
| 18 | Once stage three gets underway , however , the librarian finds that bibliographies of the subject tend to cut across classification boundaries with impunity , particularly in the humanities and social sciences , and a too rigid adherence to classification numbers means that a good deal of the material which is not easily pigeon-holed can escape the selection net . |
| 19 | More-over , the effects of imitation on performance seem to differ with respect to phonological abilities and grammatical abilities . |
| 20 | In the far north , where the landscape is turned white in winter by snow , mammals like rabbits and birds like ptarmigan have to change from brown to white and back again when the snows melt in spring . |
| 21 | These needs will have to take into account factors such as the governing body 's statutory responsibility for implementing the National Curriculum and the points about employment rights made later . |
| 22 | New users of water or those who require more than the maximum amount scheduled in an existing licence have to apply for permission to take the estimated quantity to the water authority in the area in which the works is situated , which will then decide whether sufficient water is available for the new abstraction . |
| 23 | Would the thermodynamic arrow reverse and disorder begin to decrease with time ? |
| 24 | Fertility could remain high and mortality continue to decline without population growth being stifled by a fall in wages and increases in the cost of subsistence . |
| 25 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 26 | How far might either constituent or MP have to travel in order to make such a consultation possible ? |
| 27 | An alternative would be a huge gift , something large which the drag brides have difficulty getting through the door , such as a golfing umbrella , or a garden umbrella if the couple hope to move from bachelor flats into a house . |
| 28 | Erm , the oil company continue to invest in capital expenditure , as it should do and er , most of that is spent between services , drilling and , and radar and at , Tussauds we continue to invest er , Alton Towers has got er , the Ghost House opening today and the Runaway Train and we were finishing off the Marylebone Road project , which is a very big , big project involving er , re the complete refurbishment er , new shops and a view right there in the basement . |
| 29 | And let me tell you this : should you in any way try to get in touch with me , even go to the partners and ask for my whereabouts , I swear before God — ‘ He now raised his hand in a dramatic fashion and paused before he added , ‘ See , I 'm taking an oath . |
| 30 | What does the practising teacher of , say , science or history need to know about language , in order to bring about improvements in the classroom and cope with problems that arise there ? |