Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been led to believe that you act as Public Relations Advisor to certain landowners within Highland Region , and should value an opportunity to discuss with you , initially very informally , certain projects for the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland which which I am involved , if this is in fact the case ? |
| 2 | Chicago-based Ameritech Corp reports that its Ameritech International unit and Singapore Telecom have received approval from the Norwegian government to acquire a 49.9% stake in Norwegian cellular communications firm Netcom GSM A/S : specific terms were not disclosed , but Ameritech International and Singapore Telecom will provide expertise in the construction and operation of cellular communications systems to Netcom , and the three companies will jointly construct and operate the digital cellular phone system for Norway . |
| 3 | Many officials believed that ‘ as a rule , men of inferior or no education and of low morals resort to petition-drawing as a means of livelihood . ’ |
| 4 | The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] . |
| 5 | Endorsing a document entitled the " Dakar Declaration " , G-15 leaders called for the issue of human rights violations to be discussed with greater awareness of the " close inter-relationship between democracy , human rights and development " . |
| 6 | This evidence from the southern suburbs clearly indicates an arrangement of elongated properties end-on to the frontages housing a variety of activities , but apart from a more generous allocation of space , little differentiates the associated buildings from their counterparts in the central area . |
| 7 | The remaining government funding requirement was met by sales of national savings certificates to the amount of 2.2 billion . |
| 8 | preparation of Key Issues letter to client . |
| 9 | In July the Bar Council appointed and on a job-share basis to the newly created position of Equal Opportunities Officer to the Bar . |
| 10 | By extending a kind of equal opportunities policy to the whole discipline , it tries to create a gender-neutral psychology , ‘ a non-sexist science , a psychology of human behaviour ’ ( Vaughter quoted in Unger 1979 : 24 ) . |
| 11 | Finally , the national network of antislavery societies auxiliary to the London body which covered the country during the emancipation and apprenticeship campaigns provided channels for pamphlets , prints and papers . |
| 12 | Because of several previous abdominal operations including colon resection and removal of a total of 90 cm of small intestine , extensive abdominal adhesions and a system of enterocutaneous fistulas secondary to severe Crohn 's disease , the surgeons in our hospital refused to operate . |
| 13 | The plaintiff , in considering that application , was aware that the residents living by the two approach roads to the port would be affected 24 hours a day by the movement of heavy goods vehicles to and from the port but decided to grant planning permission because of the employment and economic benefits for the area resulting from the operation of a commercial port . |
| 14 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 15 | The unacceptability of ( 29 ) , however , exists because the structure purports to assign very to the entity behind man , but the meaning of very demands assignment to the , and the notion of using predicative position to assign a property to a subordinate part of the subject phrase ( the definite article ) is altogether alien to English ( and probably to any other language ) . |
| 16 | Indication of resumption of Chinese arms supplies to Khmers Rouges — NGC meeting in Beijing |
| 17 | It contains a carefully balanced range of essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs . |
| 18 | SPAG MOVES TO PROMOTE THE WONDERS OF OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION TO USERS |
| 19 | Thus Dr David Evans summed up the reaction of Catalytic Systems Division to the double award in 1993 of the Queens Award for Environmental Achievement and the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement to CSD in the UK . |
| 20 | Apart from the political objections many Latin American governments would have to the purchase of Soviet armaments , the traditional predominance of the United States as supplier of military hardware to the region , along with the increasing strength of Brazil as an arms exporter ( $1 billion worth in 1981 ) , are highly significant obstacles to the expansion of Soviet arms sales to Latin America . |
| 21 | In a written statement Bush claimed that the legislation , which was aimed partly at the sale of chemical weapons technology to Iraq , had been vetoed because it " would severely constrain presidential authority in carrying out foreign policy " . |
| 22 | It is associated with low circulating levels of pituitary gonadotropins secondary to inadequate stimulation by hypothalamic releasing factor ( LHRH ) , itself a direct effect of undernutrition . |
| 23 | It is difficult to persuade teachers that the denial of valid arts experiences to themselves during their own school days has denied them an enriching experience and offered them instead an impoverished education . |
| 24 | Tivoli Systems Inc , based in Austin , Texas , has a growing band of acolytes which are supporting its effort to bring a framework for distributed systems management to Unix . |
| 25 | Tivoli Systems Inc , based in Austin , Texas , has a growing band of acolytes supporting its effort to bring a framework for distributed systems management to Unix . |
| 26 | Urban labour markets have spread more deeply into rural areas thanks to improved communications , but in recent years the increasing cost and decreasing availability and frequency of public transport have cancelled out many of the gains which rural workers might otherwise have enjoyed . |
| 27 | FRANCE VOYAGES is offering 2 nights at EuroDisney with British Airways flights to Paris for £99pp , based on six sharing a chalet at Camp Davy Crockett . |
| 28 | Oesophageal transection and devascularisation are satisfactory for many patients with oesophageal varices secondary to cirrhosis and should nearly always control bleeding . |
| 29 | All subsequent communications about overseas visitors itineraries to be conducted with Coordinators only . |
| 30 | MMT Computing Plc reduced its stake in Total Systems Plc to under 3% . |