Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1969 and 1973 it was to cost approximately £100 million , and involve a design team of up to a hundred people known as the New Range Planning Organisation ( NPRO ) . |
| 2 | From the top of the pinnacle step onto the wall and , using the thin cracks , effect a mantleshelf move into the horizontal break . |
| 3 | The authors suggest a cut-off point of eleven , scores greater than this indicating clinical significance . |
| 4 | At one end of the bar marble columns and curves suggest a memorial chapel with tables for drinkers replacing tombs . |
| 5 | Colour and pattern and a riotous hippy mix suggest a dressing-up approach to dressing well that is perfectly tuned to the new liberated spirit in fashion . |
| 6 | If things do n't improve , I suggest a write-in vote for Willy Brandt . |
| 7 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 8 | Reconstruction shall include repainting , sandblasting and reconstruction of all LAUSD schools ; remodelling of classrooms , repainting of hallways and meeting areas ; all schools shall have new landscaping and more plants and trees around the schools ; completely upgrade the bathrooms , making them more modern ; provide a bathroom monitor to each bathroom which will provide fresh-up toiletries at a minimum cost to the students . |
| 9 | Instead , he argues , they provide a tonic input to the cortical units that are processing input relayed by X-cells , modulating the activity of these units to improve the efficiency of visual processing . |
| 10 | The standard is designed to use established quality assurance tools and provide a management framework from within which companies could seek registration with the EC eco-audit scheme if they wished to . |
| 11 | All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields . |
| 12 | Some manufacturers provide a capacity record at the start of a track , used to indicate whether space remains on the track during loading . |
| 13 | Costumes provide a dress parade of the decades . |
| 14 | These trends provide a case study of the general theme raised in Part One , namely the functions of the family in children 's early development . |
| 15 | At present , Mikhail Gorbachev 's reforms merely provide a case study in how to wreck an economy . |
| 16 | Those people who seem to spend their entire lives in a state of hyperactivity provide a selection interviewer with plenty of information . |
| 17 | Before you can sign the translation contract , the publishers insist that you provide a sample translation of a couple of pages to allow them to assess your competence as a translator of this type of literature . |
| 18 | Unmarried young people , male and female alike , provide a labour force upon which all adults of the communal house may draw , a preparation for the general co-operation upon which the Piaroa place such value among adults within the community . |
| 19 | Proportional representation , for all its ‘ fairness ’ , would destroy forever any future chance of real leadership and provide a power base for any extremist minority that could muster a dozen seats . |
| 20 | General grants , on the other hand , provide a lump sum in support of local authority expenditure : the amount is not allocated to specific services . |
| 21 | The Gallery comprises three rooms , one of which is to be designated the ‘ Eric Jones-Evans Room ’ and which will house his Collection and provide a research centre for the study of 19th-century theatre and melodrama . |
| 22 | Targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts , the treasury 's cut will be twelve percent of proceeds , leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator . |
| 23 | Some social service departments provide a laundry service for people with incontinence , or who can not manage their laundry for other reasons . |
| 24 | The markets , while not identical with fields , provide a skeleton framework for the latter . |
| 25 | The excavation of archaeological sites and the study of structural remains from those sites provide a skeleton picture of life in the past . |
| 26 | Specific grants provide a set proportion of approved expenditure on particular services . |
| 27 | Such ventures deserve support , for they provide a starting point for up-and-coming writers , and uncover important original material which budget-restricted professional historians no longer have the time to seek out . |
| 28 | Stage 1 Generic Sciences modules provide a starting point for those students with little or no science background and will be particularly useful for programmes being developed for adult returners or for those with Standard Grade at Grade 5/6 who wish to continue in science . |
| 29 | Some types of life assurance provide a cash payment on a director 's retirement to buyout his or her shareholding . |
| 30 | In other words , local authorities must keep separate revenue accounts for different categories of work and provide a balance sheet on a ‘ true and fair view ’ basis . |