Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All breath samples were analysed for hydrogen concentration using a sensitive chromatographic method , capable of detecting concentrations as low as 1 ppm . |
| 2 | The rest of the men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty comprised a merchant , 2 book keepers , 4 blacksmiths , 3 shoemakers , 3 tailors , 2 chandlers , and a cooper , a joiner , a carpenter , a roper , a gardener and a preacher . |
| 3 | A home-owning pensioner over 75 who does not qualify for income support gets a mere 50p a week extra rate . |
| 4 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman knows that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just announced that our plans for defence expenditure involve a cut of 6 per cent . |
| 6 | The £4,000 million Action for Cities programme underlines the Conservative commitment to our inner cities and the people who live there . |
| 7 | Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK . |
| 8 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |
| 9 | My ideas for rail freight hit the buffers full tilt |
| 10 | Pen Computing will soon be a familiar term in the PC market place allowing PC users to use ‘ natural ’ and intuitive pen movements for PC input using a graphics tablet or , in some cases , directly on the screen . |
| 11 | ( 5.13 ) the maximum torque occurs if p = 6 , so : This apparently complicated expression for pull.out torque gives the surprisingly simple characteristic shown in Fig. 5.8 . |
| 12 | Other biological characteristics such as hair colour have no connection with an individual 's status and , in future societies , skin colour may be equally insignificant . |
| 13 | A further development was that the soil series adopted in the 1950s as soils with similar profiles , derived from similar materials under similar conditions of development as the basic unit for field mapping acquired a third dimension with the definition of the three-dimensional soil body or pedon ( Johnson , 1963 ) . |
| 14 | Judith Gersting 's Mathematical Structures for Computer Science provides a lucid path through set , theory , logic , algebraic structures , and combinatorics ; she covers them all in a quarter of the usual space , showing what a mess plenty of mathematics texts manage to make . |
| 15 | The heavy workload demanded the requirement for familiarisation training to get the Lincoln crews used to operating over the largely featureless Malayan jungle . |
| 16 | A writer for Temple Bar visited the Tabernacle and reported that the congregation dictated the style . |
| 17 | It is perhaps ironical that while the decision by Britain to apply for EEC membership implied a tacit acceptance of the supranational principle inherent in the Treaty of Rome , the Gaullist design for Europe , which de Gaulle called the ‘ Europe des Patries ’ , was very similar to the kind of traditional scheme so popular in the past with British politicians — an alliance sustained primarily by frequent conversations between national governments , in which national sovereignty would not be compromised . |
| 18 | As with any other important investment decision , you would be well advised to take your time , do some basic research into the track record of any policies you might be considering ( specialist magazines such as Money Management provide a useful starting point ) and on no account sign any document without first being absolutely certain that you fully understand all the terms and conditions including the administrative charges . |
| 19 | Controlling and adhering to announced targets for money supply became a test of the government 's will . |
| 20 | How does this demand for money specification affect the relationship between money and prices ? |
| 21 | The Postcards For Prisoners campaign sees the release of 21 prisoners ; of the 1,271 new prisoners adopted , 727 have been released . |
| 22 | This report describes the referral patterns of women during pregnancy and the effect this has on the interpretation of perinatal risk ; compares crude perinatal mortality rates between different maternity units ; shows how adjustment for case mix influences the initial rates ; and suggests ways of making analyses of perinatal mortality rates more relevant for evaluating obstetric and neonatal care . |
| 23 | If your vagina feels a little dry during intercourse use a lubricant such as KY Jelly to ease the problem of friction and bruising . |
| 24 | Despite worse than expected profits reported last month , Neill 's shares lost only 6p to 191p as bid speculation limited the fall . |
| 25 | CONCERN has been voiced about ambulance cover following the death of a psychiatric patient who fell from an upstairs window . |
| 26 | They were mounted on large mainframe computers for batch processing using a variety of packages and high level languages of which SPSS and Fortran dominated the social science world from which historians learnt so much . |
| 27 | This , as we have seen , is very much at odds with the philosophy of writers like Ross and Witkin , who have emphasized the need for arts education to address the problem of aesthetic development , or what Witkin terms the ‘ intelligence of feeling ’ . |
| 28 | HOLLYWOOD legend Audrey Hepburn was recovering last night after emergency surgery to remove a tumour from her colon . |
| 29 | Editor , — Linda Beecham 's report on the BMA 's submission to the chief medical officer 's working party on specialist training related to training requirements in the European Community includes the statement : ‘ Since the work of public health doctors in the United Kingdom has changed considerably since 1975 the requirements for specialist training have no relevance . ’ |
| 30 | As winter frost covered the sleeping flowers , the cold silent house was battered by wind and damp by driving rain . |