Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To meet this requirement , it will be necessary for weighers to keep their own record of tare weighings carried out , including time of taring and where removable parts , eg. sides , rear boards , tarpaulins , sacks , etc. are in use , whether these parts are included in the tare . |
| 2 | With the advent of GIS , it will be increasingly possible for non-cartographers to produce their own maps . |
| 3 | Assistance in all these areas would provide the chance for musicians to develop their own potential and to discover whether there is an audience for their music . |
| 4 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 5 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 6 | Above all , it was necessary , in the search for quality , for LEAs to have their own direct observation of teaching and learning : " it is important to know whether improvements are needed in the organization of teaching , in the provision of equipment and materials , in the quality of teaching of one or more teachers or in some quite different area " ( Audit Commission 1989:8 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ With regard to the discretion of a judge as to costs , which is given by Order LXV , r. 1 , of the Rules of the Supreme Court , it is , I think , common practice for parties to make their own agreements as to the costs … and such agreements are perfectly valid and enforceable . |
| 8 | Here and there are ‘ signposts ’ , elongated lecterns with albums of photos , magazine clippings , advertisements , and assorted memorabilia relating to the epoch of the nearby works of art , and notecards for visitors to record their own associations and recollections — to be periodically appended to the scrapbooks . |
| 9 | Valdemar was extremely helpful and took the next day off work to show us some of the local birds . |
| 10 | You can train Windows for Pens to recognize your own style of handwriting but , unfortunately , it 's not very good at it . |
| 11 | He stood there waiting silently for Sandison to work his own way out of the difficulty and Sandison realised there was a calculating hardness to this man . |
| 12 | The Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed laws on Oct. 23 creating the legal basis for Ukraine to have its own army , air force and navy — totalling 450,000 men — and a National Guard of 30,000 . |
| 13 | The absence of Ukraine 's President Leonid Kravchuk , who was pressing for Ukraine to have its own armed forces , caused anger among the delegates . |
| 14 | The Ministers resolved to oppose any unilateral bans on the import of tropical timber , and declared the sovereign right of states to develop their own natural resources . |
| 15 | Fortunately , Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was an enlightened and civilized person , who appreciated Haydn 's outstanding abilities , and allowed him a certain degree of freedom to pursue his own interests . |
| 16 | Lewis and Ruddock , egged on by Holyfield 's camp which wanted one of them removed from their man 's path , were courageous enough to buck the cosy cartel of challengers-in-waiting to set their own agenda . |
| 17 | It must be an awful lot of money to make them this worried . |
| 18 | By 1830 the number of towns which had obtained Acts of Parliament to have their own Courts of Requests or Courts of Conscience , on the lines of those established in London in 1749 , had risen to fifty-four . |
| 19 | An experimental study of the ability of subjects to influence their own dreams was conducted at David Foulkes 's laboratory . |
| 20 | This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together . |
| 21 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 22 | He redeveloped Luxor , formerly Thebes , raising one of history 's most renowned temples , and erecting the Colossi of Memnon to guard his own mortuary temple on the Nile . |
| 23 | The sergeant watched his boss scrutinise Jane Pargeter , her lips pulled into a look of scepticism to match his own . |
| 24 | The spectacle is intended for her too as part of the audience , but she can not become a pair of eyes to view her own humiliation . |
| 25 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 26 | However , despite some lip-service to the rights of schools to determine their own curriculum , on the whole those who argue against centralist control of schools do so not so much on grounds of loss of freedom for schools as on grounds of the consequent loss of local power . |
| 27 | The Scheme emphasised the right of defendants to choose their own solicitor , and required the duty solicitor to check whether the defendant already had one . |
| 28 | This would allow Mr Lamont and the Bank of England to cut our own interest rates even further , without damaging the pound . |
| 29 | Both of hope that they include ideas to inspire and encourage those with even the smallest of gardens to create their own interesting , colourful features . ’ |
| 30 | Full employment was a desirable goal , but if the price of full employment was State restriction on the freedom of businessmen to order their own affairs , then that freedom must take priority even if mass unemployment was the result . |