Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in response to a growing shortage of skilled workers in Oxfordshire the county council recently held a seminar for employers to discuss child-care at work . |
| 2 | The system is backed up by the Employers ' Liability ( Compulsory Insurance ) Act 1969 which makes it compulsory for employers to have insurance for personal injury to their employees . |
| 3 | It was common for sittings to take place in rooms contained in buildings whose primary purpose was to house other government departments . |
| 4 | A similar effect can lead to the summits of mountains in orogenic belts increasing in elevation as the incision of deep valleys between peaks causes unloading of the crust . |
| 5 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 6 | The most-quoted passage described the affluent American family taking a weekend outing in its mauve and cerise , air-conditioned , power-steered automobile passing through cities made tawdry by litter , blighted buildings and broken pavements , into the bill-boarded countryside where they picnic on packaged food by a polluted stream and camp out on a filthy parking lot . |
| 7 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 8 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 9 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 10 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 11 | Thus the power of corporate managers vis-à-vis society is legitimated because they are perceived as experts wielding power for the benefit of society generally . |
| 12 | Miklós Mojzer addressed the problems of the art trade in Hungary , where as yet no lists exist for objects considered part of the national heritage , while Lubomir Slavicek focused on financial , management , and display problems at the National Gallery in Prague . |
| 13 | Height of string from ground gives height of bank ( A ) , which is divided by preferred height for risers to give number of steps . |
| 14 | Such meetings provide an excellent opportunity for researchers to make contact with others working within their field and to develop research initiatives . |
| 15 | Chance for grass-roots to criticise presentation of health service policy , community charges , and the Party 's June European election campaign . |
| 16 | And they had asked for compensation : so not war-widows ' pensions , in any case readily forthcoming in the Libyan welfare system , but perhaps bloodwealth , that compensation exchanged between groups to ensure peace between them . |
| 17 | In McInnes v. Onslow Fane ( N.C. , 1978 ) a contrast was drawn between cases involving forfeiture of a licence , ( natural justice applied as there was a right to answer any allegations which had been brought ) , renewal cases ( where in view of the fact that a person 5 livelihood would be affected if the renewal was not granted , there is a legitimate expectation of being given a hearing ) , and initial applications where minimal standards of fairness apply . |
| 18 | Progress was rapid — but let us prefer to call it evolution , for Daguerreotypes achieved perfection of a kind ( even though the process fell into disuse after less than 20 years ) . |
| 19 | Together with ‘ efficiency ’ and good management principles has come the crying need for experts to take charge of every field . |
| 20 | Because of this , the Second Chance for Women courses in Southampton have been continually investigated by local politicians , LEA advisers , university professors and HMI for signs of bias , indoctrination and extremism in ways which other courses sponsored by the university department have never been ; and despite the lip-service paid to experimental learning and Freirian praxis in the rhetoric of our leaders this does not extend any encouragement or enlightenment about attempts to make space for feminist ideas in adult education . |
| 21 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 22 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 23 | Filling in between times necessitates recourse to the mid-year estimates of the Registrar-General which provide details of the numbers of people in each local authority , together with a breakdown of annual changes by natural change and migration components . |
| 24 | Of equal importance is for clients to have confidence in our abilities and in particular this will be reinforced by our knowledge of the current market . |
| 25 | There is a growing trend in the textile trade for designers to make use of computer-aided design , in order to explore a greater number of design ideas and to shorten lead times on production . |
| 26 | Vouchers are only valid for rallies taking place before 31st December 1991 . |
| 27 | K. R. There were mainly annoying types of things — such as lads playing football in the street and that sort of thing , and the drunks coming out of the pub , and on the corner . |
| 28 | Mann argues that the reasoning that rejects the notion of assignability of treaties resembles that which for centuries prevented assignment of debts in private law . |
| 29 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |
| 30 | Mackworth ( 1950 ) , within his classical studies of vigilance , showed that without knowledge of results the proportion of detected signals decreased in succeeding half-hours compared with the first half-hour , but for subjects given knowledge of results there was no deterioration compared with the first half-hour through the full two hours of the study . |