Example sentences of "' [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution .
2 At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home .
3 If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe .
4 The Parents ' Support Group at Grove Park Day Nursery managed to raise funds for the project in just six months .
5 He said if one hospital 's unit is full units in adjacent hospitals are used , in South Tees ' case units in North Tees or Darlington .
6 This will discuss various ways of using candidates ' course work for English , maths , and computing Standard Grades as evidence for achievement in communication , numeracy , and information technology modules .
7 Earned PhD in agronomy , soil science , or soil microbiology ; at least five years ' research experience in legume N 2 fixation , N cycling and 15N technique ; practical experience in developing countries and/or dryland farming systems desirable .
8 Pound and Clements ' Phytogeography of Nebraska of 1898 became a standard text for American botany , and Clements ' Research Methods in Ecology of 1905 was the first textbook to describe the new methodology .
9 County NatWest 's annual includes details of the 76 trusts ' accounting policies for revenue and income , details of trusts with scope to increase dividends , and their dividend history from 1987 to 1992 .
10 At the Republican Convention last month George Bush expressed his concern about the whole question of liability in the US , and particularly about the amount of money trial lawyers make from suits that lead to doctors refusing to practise certain areas of medicine , and even to parents refusing to umpire childrens ' baseball games in case a child is injured and they are sued .
11 And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public .
12 The reason becomes clear when we consider these devices ' search spaces for learning .
13 Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) .
14 Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero .
15 Station monitors probably emerge more readily in a rural catchment area — Womens ' Institute support for example — than in the vast amorphous southern Black Country .
16 It finances the Dental Estimates Board and the prescription pricing authorities that keep a check on dentists ' and doctors ' prescribing habits in order to contain costs .
17 There is a minimum 14 days ' cancellation period from receipt of the policy document .
18 Worse still was the Tories ' refusal year after year to make the essential commitment to the productive base of the economy — education and training , research and development , science , transport and communication .
19 Always follow manufacturers ' cleaning instructions for furniture and fabrics .
20 Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper .
21 Church chiefs ' crisis talks on terror scourge
22 The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools .
23 A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal .
24 When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad .
25 Employees ' share schemes for example would be unworkable if , every time a further allotment was to be made pursuant to them , all equity shareholders had to be offered pre-emptive rights .
26 But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself .
27 Rethink call from Tory peers follows banks ' pull-out Minister in corner over student loans .
28 Travis led the way to the library and , to show that he knew Rosemary 's parents ' phone number by heart , although he had phoned her there only once , he immediately started to dial .
29 DAVID BISHOP , who has played only seven matches in 18 months , is Wales ' shock choice at hooker to face England on Friday .
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