Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one … |
| 2 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 3 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 4 | This line goes through two data points , the values for the Greater London area and for the rest of the South East . |
| 5 | CONNER PERIPHERALS SUES FOR ALLEGED PATENT INFRINGEMENT |
| 6 | They recommend the introduction of Management Grants for appropriate land management ( similar to NCC 's Section 15 Management Agreements ) which can combine payments to offset loss of income for not performing damaging operations and other payments to reflect the need for certain forms of positive management . |
| 7 | The European Commission 's approval of the programmes for RECHAR grants for British coalfield areas is overdue . |
| 8 | This goes for all hair lengths . ’ |
| 9 | The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow goes for such audience participation in a big way . |
| 10 | To put it another way , President Reagan 's plans are likely to attract the kind of remarks that another John — McEnroe not McElroy — normally reserves for bad line calls . |
| 11 | This paved the way for the merging of NILTs and SBATs as social security appeal tribunals ( Harris , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 13 | ICMS stands for Integrated Crop Management Systems and , unless you are involved in produce growing , it is an expression you have probably never heard . |
| 14 | ‘ Adam & Eve ’ stands for Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation & Extensible Variety of Exercises . |
| 15 | The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations organises the Intor workshops ( Intor stands for International Tokamak Reactor ) although most of the work is actually carried out by groups working in their various home laboratories . |
| 16 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 17 | CAT stands for cysteic acid treatment , a type of protein to help repair and protect damaged hair . |
| 18 | AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome . |
| 19 | High on the agenda will be to achieve international agreements on dividing the transmission bands for high definition satellite television ( HDTV ) and on defining the introduction of satellite radio broadcasts . |
| 20 | This could be achieved by totalling the loan counts for each interest category and then expressing each count as a percentage of the total . |
| 21 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 22 | Peter Stalker sifts through some population contradictions and explains how both interpretations can be true . |
| 23 | Toward the north of the island you see exotic banana plants , pine forests and coffee plantations : an interesting coastline which alternates between small fishing ports and large stretches of beach , and here and there you can spot ancient little towns and tiny villages which still retain their authentic Canarian character . |
| 24 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 25 | From Hartsop village , follow Pasture Beck to Threshthwaite Mouth ( 2 miles ) , the deep col which lies between Stony Cove Pike and Thornthwaite Crag . |
| 26 | The canton of Glarus lies between this mountain barrier in the south and , in the north , the Walensee ( lake ) and the Linth Canal which in the short northern plain links Walensee with the eastern extension of Lake Zurich which is known as the Obersee , ( ie , Upper Lake ) The canal also drains former marshland between these two lakes Glarus , though one of the smallest cantons , is often described as an epitomy of Switzerland as a whole in that it has three geographical sectors : a vast area of mountain country , a moderate stretch of rolling upland plateau capable of settlement what the Swiss call Mittel-land ( literally , middle-land ) and a small area of real lowland . |
| 27 | Basic expenditure needs for each Local Authority are assessed using over 60 major indicators of needs and associated unit costs , with some 200 indicators being used overall . |
| 28 | ‘ To identify priorities : minimum learning needs for all Lesotho children who have attended primary school . |
| 29 | You can have the pick of any of the manor farm horses for breeding , to improve the standard of Handley Farm horses — providing you replace any Tom needs for general farm work . |
| 30 | United Distillers is totally committed to its central objective of delivering consistently superior performance and meeting worldwide consumer needs for high quality spirits beverages through its portfolio of outstanding brands . |