Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life of a business or operation may also be at risk for few industries have such a strong and demanding legal code where failure to comply may result in immediate closure or prosecution . |
| 2 | More money for some areas means less money for others , which can obviously raise political issues . |
| 3 | There is thus a tendency for some engineers to say that drafting ( and therefore tertiary design ) is not really design ; that the mundane activities necessary to produce an artefact really belong solely to production engineering . |
| 4 | There is a tendency for some engineers to regard all standards as a constraint on their talent . |
| 5 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 6 | We also need to consider the local and wider community and its various institutions — not least , the powerful influence of television , which for some children represents more hours of information intake than is provided by teachers during eleven years of compulsory education . |
| 7 | Money was allocated for coaches and teacher supervision ( now that there are so many educational cutbacks on outings ) , special allowances for printing and photographic paper were made , as it was impossible for some schools to provide such basics . |
| 8 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said such a call would have little impact on Parliament . |
| 9 | The courts will , however , have some regard for such conventions presuming that Parliament intended to comply with its moral obligations and bring our law into line with the convention . |
| 10 | It is rare for such measures to provoke much debate . |
| 11 | Nevertheless there is an increasing tendency for such workers to regard this function as a separate job , not part of food production or handling , to be carried out by other unskilled people . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 13 | One example of this changed attitude to the role of the newspaper in the post-War period was the readiness of some newspapers to treat all political parties with equal respect . |
| 14 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 15 | But the ability of such institutions to perform this role has become increasingly difficult . |
| 16 | But the users of such materials dislike that idea , arguing that they would then be undercut in third markets by rivals using free German rubbish . |
| 17 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 18 | Secondly , it is not even probable that she would have known much about the progress of the book at the time , except in the most general terms : she was not often in her brother 's company and his letters to her during these years do not suggest that details of such matters formed any part of their common ground . |
| 19 | The vast majority of such jurisdictions allow all forms of relevant evidence to be admitted , leaving the court with the task of assigning such evidence an appropriate weight , according to the circumstances . |
| 20 | The titles of such degrees bear this out : headings such as physics , geography , sociology , English and history refer to the well-established and familiar ‘ bodies of knowledge ’ discussed in Chapter 2 , which can constitute an ‘ internal ’ rationale for the course of study without any necessity to refer outside or beyond to the world of work . |
| 21 | The authors of such statements cite each other in support of their beliefs , but the criticcal reader is hard put to find reference to any systematic test of their accuracy . |
| 22 | A recent large-scale study of special needs provision in junior schools suggests that while teachers ' attitudes to low-achieving children are broadly positive , they are pessimistic about the ability of such children to derive much benefit from increased special needs provision ( Croll and Moses , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Police constables and sergeants tended to address headmen in disrespectful terms , and the possibility of such humiliations dissuaded many of the more wealthy villagers from accepting the post of headman . |
| 24 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 25 | None of these friends knew much about funerals , but if it was something for Conor then , yes , they 'd like to come along . |
| 26 | In view of these reports indicating some kind of distal colonic abnormality , it was decided to evaluate the rectal mucosa in gluten sensitive patients on a prospective basis : ( i ) to determine whether there is a coeliac disease associated inflammatory proctitis , ( ii ) to define its characteristics , and ( iii ) to analyse the effects of gluten withdrawal . |
| 27 | None of these letters offers any proof , of course , that reincarnation is a reality . |
| 28 | You know your body better than any exercise teacher or doctor ; if any of these exercises causes any doubt in your mind as to whether you should be doing them , avoid having a go until you have consulted a doctor . |
| 29 | They suffer disproportionately because when the cuts come it 's the special needs support that many of these groups need that was the first to go . |
| 30 | proportionately because when the cuts come it 's the special need support that many of these groups need that was the first to go . |