Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 2 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 3 | You say erm you want to go into sort of C colon my D I R |
| 4 | There 's other associates who like to know beforehand roughly how much they can provide for people by way of life cover and living assurance , so that they can give the people some idea , or maybe want to sit in front of them and use the rate book to give them some idea . |
| 5 | It said : ‘ The council has written to a number of stores requesting undertakings that they cease trading in contravention of the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act . |
| 6 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 7 | Found property : Police at Strand Road want to hear from owners of these items found recently in the city centre . |
| 8 | In fact , volcanic arcs appear to consist of series of slightly off-set linear elements which have been interpreted as representing the subduction of discrete segments of lithosphere . |
| 9 | You want to sleep before lunch of after ? |
| 10 | Different mutations in the cystic fibrosis ( CF ) gene appear to contribute to heterogeneity of the CF phenotype . |
| 11 | The Soviet media published ostensible ‘ top secret CENTO documents ’ proving that the authors ‘ want to transform into zones of death not only their two allies in CENTO , Iran and Pakistan , but also the territory of neutral Afghanistan ’ . |
| 12 | In proceedings under the Children Act 1989 the parties must disclose the substance of any oral evidence they propose to call in advance of the hearing . |
| 13 | As evidence of that , I want to refer to comments of Mr. Colin Webster , the marketing director of National Power . |
| 14 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 15 | That 's because you , you want to , everyone does , you want to think in terms of conductances , so it 's hard to get over this problem , so do n't get over it . |
| 16 | I have found more difficulty teaching the relational model to computer students ( who want to think in terms of computer jargon and are looking for complications that do not exist ) than to management students . |
| 17 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 18 | In real life , we move our heads , and foreground objects appear to move in front of background objects because of parallax . |
| 19 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 20 | On the ground floor of the plush Avenue Matignon headquarters , children sit absorbed in front of banks of Apple II computers . |
| 21 | The Serbian Government must recognise that they should extend to the Albanians exactly the rights and privileges that they seek to secure on behalf of the Serbs in , for example , Croatia . |
| 22 | Britain was today considering a United States request to look at ways of joining an air operation to parachute relief supplies into Bosnia . |
| 23 | Fidelity ( 0800 414161 ) has produced guides explaining the tax savings to be made by using a roll-up fund ; the opportunities cover investing on behalf of a child , supplementing your income , retiring or working abroad , approaching retirement , investments made by a non-working spouse and investing on behalf of your company . |
| 24 | If the description seems an overly gloomy one , it is perhaps because teachers themselves often tend to focus on aspects of the job that they would wish to minimize or remove . |
| 25 | A local newspaper has suggested that Indonesians tend to waver between extremes of toleration and banning , but give little thought to the middle ground — restricting becaks to well-defined areas of the city under supervision and control . |
| 26 | If you intend to apply for leave of absence you should contact your Studies Adviser or Senior Course Tutor who will advise you of the procedures to follow before leaving the University . |
| 27 | Fear owing to miscarriage of plan , only forty aircraft and some transport destroyed to date . |
| 28 | The instructions below describe insetting in steps of the default tab width of 0.5″ . |
| 29 | In fact they seem to go in search of them . |
| 30 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |