Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Excitement fades to disillusionment , and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf . |
2 | Essentially , formulating a theory of regulation involves imputing motives to the various bodies involved in regulation ; various theories are obtained by imputing various motives . |
3 | In reading , lexical access involves using information from a printed word to gain access to that word 's entry in the mental lexicon . |
4 | At present , the bulk of an LEA adviser 's work involves helping teachers in a variety of ways , and , although this requires them to observe teaching , the act of inspection creates some tensions . |
5 | This involves helping staff through the possible stages of individual crises identified some time ago in the USA , eg the phases of ‘ shock ’ , ‘ defensive retreat ’ , ‘ acknowledgement ’ , ‘ adaption and change ’ Fink , Beak and Taddeo , 1971 ) . |
6 | The company is due to unveil its high-end SparcStation 10 models tomorrow , and will bring them out at substantially reduced price points to stimulate growth of a high-powered multitasking and multiprocessing desktop marketplace . |
7 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
8 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
9 | THE number of children on Wirral 's child protection register has jumped 10% in a year , according to the council 's annual social services report . |
10 | It is no wonder that the right hon. Gentleman wants to support elements of the social charter being imposed here . |
11 | There is a contradiction which has pervaded responses to the National Curriculum in special education . |
12 | The commitment to maintain or increase expenditure on arms , agriculture and energy has drained investment from the manufacturing base on which all of these priorities depend . |
13 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
14 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |
15 | Accordionist Tommy Edmondson , 58 , of Rothbury , Northumberland , has received £100 for the signature tune of the BBC children 's cartoon Captain Pugwash , which he recorded 40 years ago and was paid £2 . |
16 | Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% . |
17 | change the status of the problem report to ‘ ACCEPT ’ to indicate that he has received notification of the problem |
18 | This form of diligence can be used as soon as the warrant has been obtained from the court and before the debtor has received notification of the action against him by service of the court papers . |
19 | Karen , who started skating at the age of six , has received grants from the borough council 's Community Chest . |
20 | The Gloucester and England rugby player Mike Teague has received compensation from the Rugby Football Union for the injuries he sustained during the World Cup . |
21 | Difficulties over timing are normally resolved by the respective lawyers giving appropriate undertakings , particularly if the chargee will not release the charge until it has received part of the sale proceeds . |
22 | SINEAD O'CONNOR has received support from a group which tore up photos of the Pope outside New York 's St Patrick 's Cathedral . |
23 | In addition to national research council funding for individual country participation , the EUROCOMP comparative project has received support from the Council of Europe , the European Science Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation . |
24 | It has received evidence from the teachers ' associations , the employers and the Department of Education and Science , and has listened to the representations of all those bodies . |
25 | It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary . |
26 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
27 | In such studies , the argument is cause-to-effect , i.e. we match a group that has received X with a control group and look to see if the observed responses in the S 1 and S 2 samples differ . |
28 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
29 | The exhibition has aroused comment in the British press as the first to impose a stiff £6 entrance charge , albeit including an ‘ acoustiguide ’ a sort of sophisticated Walkman . |
30 | Anthony Powell has recalled Eliot with the Mirrlees at the end of the period in which he was staying with them . |