Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
2 | ‘ Look , I hope you do n't mind my saying so , but I know Drew 's frite-fly keen for Perdita to get this scholarship . |
3 | Commentators such as Kelly see this meeting as a ‘ watershed ’ where the reformers lost their case . |
4 | I , I wish to exercise my rights as Chairman to re-take this vote . |
5 | In the past Linfield have declined to take a case to the independent tribunal for they felt it was more appropriate for clubs to settle any dispute between themselves . |
6 | Possible mathematical experiences are given for activities involving each item . |
7 | However the specialist provision , the specialist palliative care remains the responsibility of the District Health Authority , and they have received extra funding for hospice work this year . |
8 | It had been useless for Denis to protest that Iron Josh was an outsider with no involvement in their cause one way or the other . |
9 | For text input some shape recognisers produce a single character candidate for each possible character , whereas others produce a string of alternative character candidates with an associated weight for each alternative for each possible character . |
10 | As potential applications for PCR develop more emphasis is being placed upon the practical aspects of the reaction . |
11 | In most Health Authority areas , increased employment of nurses was offset by reductions in the use of ancillary manual staff , even prior to the government 's imposed requirement for Authorities to put this work out to tender . |
12 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
13 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : For permission to publish this paper , the authors thank the Department of Economic Development , Northern Ireland , on whose behalf the study was made . |
14 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The author is indebted to Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij and The Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium for permission to publish this paper . |
15 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
16 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
17 | As we said earlier , the Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley faced demonstrators angry about plans to close another hospital in the region . |
18 | Last year , his May campaign — national crime prevention week — cost £4.5 million , yet the three-months ' figures for crime following that expenditure showed an upsurge in crime . |
19 | Work on transforming derelict land turning former railway land at Primrose Hill , Stockton into a new park and reclaiming a former iron and steel works at Stillington for industry begins this summer with a £500,000 Government reclamation grant . |
20 | There must be a strong case for action to prevent that sort of suffering in any animal , let alone the potential risk to human health . ’ |
21 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
22 | A further unforeseen difficulty for schools doing any kind of agricultural work has been the widespread drought of the mid-1980s , which is still affecting some parts of the country . |
23 | I believe that Taylor is still leaving the door open for Gazza to play some part against Norway in the opening World Cup tie at Wembley on October 14 — providing he comes through the ordeal of an Italian League baptism . |
24 | These cases about valuers bear some analogy with cases on domestic tribunals , except of course that there need not be a hearing . |
25 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
26 | In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products . |
27 | Harriet and I as teenagers bashing each other into the lavender bushes . |
28 | Since large serf-owners tended not to live on their estates or to know much about rural conditions , few of the people whom the tsar had charged with thinking about emancipation had any idea of the complexities of the task . |
29 | ‘ He has done for himself now ’ I finally said as we came down through Grasmere to get some transport back to our room . |
30 | And it would have to rain for months to make any difference . |