Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The estimated time for completion seems to extend each time Pool runs the predictor . |
| 2 | This handy sized guide is an ideal companion for walkers wanting to explore this part of Scotland . |
| 3 | Various reports during February attempted to give some assessment of the damage sustained in Iraq as a result of the UN embargo [ see pp. 37639-40 ; 37695 ; 37871 ] and the air war . |
| 4 | Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions . |
| 5 | The success of policies designed to develop this sector of the economy depends in large part on the knowledge and awareness policy makers and the small businesses have of one another . |
| 6 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 7 | Most crucially , the National Union of Seamen refused to allow any of its members on board the ship . |
| 8 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 9 | And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents . |
| 10 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 11 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 12 | Trade union involvement can of course help to alleviate some of the difficulties suggested above . |
| 13 | Although he received a standing ovation from the delegates , supporters of Keating continued to predict that — the denials of the former Treasurer notwithstanding — a second challenge to Hawke 's position would be delivered before the end of the year . |
| 14 | - You find postal charges mysteriously a penny higher than you thought they were , so you buy a sheet of 1p stamps to upgrade all the old ones you have left , and then you find you have n't got any old ones left , only this big sheet of 1p stamps . |
| 15 | It would be well into the 1920s before the majority of geneticists began to concede that natural selection might have a role to play by regulating the spread of mutated characters within the population . |
| 16 | Surveys of attitudes tend to confirm this . |
| 17 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |
| 18 | The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids . |
| 19 | This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France . |
| 20 | One important finding is that people differ in the number of repetitions needed to establish this kind of learning . |
| 21 | Sixty per cent of secretaries want to develop another career but only 15 per cent feel opportunities exist . |
| 22 | The use of quantification in studies of crime tends to obscure this diversity . |
| 23 | Do the assumptions of heads have to attach less weight than might be reasonable to , for instance , a colleague 's attitude of reluctance ? |
| 24 | There is a straightforward relationship between the resolution of a particular type of screen and the amount of data need to support that resolution . |
| 25 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 26 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 27 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 28 | To give voters five votes each , all of them transferable , would result in an intolerable proliferation of candidates fielded to attract those votes , utter contusion in the minds of electors and a nightmare of transferring and of counting . |
| 29 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 30 | These appliances are operated by staff whose skill levels can be extremely low , making a combination of circumstances designed to send most fire officers into early retirement ! |