Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he would have kept any such agreement is another question , but his capacity for resistance would have been much reduced . |
| 2 | Envelopes for donation can be had from Helen Chalmers or Theresa Scott or donations can be put in a plain envelope marked for BMS BIRTHDAY SCHEME . |
| 3 | Another early problem for PREPCOM will be finance . |
| 4 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 5 | Roh also indicated that the two Koreas ' plans for reunification could be combined in a three-stage formula , starting with the South Korean plan based on a Korean community , and proceeding to a confederal republic of Koryo , as proposed by the North . |
| 6 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 7 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 8 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 9 | In addition , the tubercle bacillus in patients with sarcoidosis may be present in the form without a cell wall as a slowly growing bacterial infection so agents directed toward the cell wall mycolic acid such as isoniazid would be ineffective . |
| 10 | If the rope breaks , the take off field should be within easy reach for a downwind landing , whereas a problem with the towplane 's engine usually means a field landing is almost inevitable . |
| 11 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 12 | It follows that any proposal for change would be referred to customary ways of thinking , and this provides for the possibility of operational techniques which realize new ideas being devised as an extension of existing practices . |
| 13 | The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged . |
| 14 | His ideas for change would involve some regrouping of staff , and some need for training with new computer software . |
| 15 | If we were to do that , I would not rule out any particular proposed change to the role and structure of the district councils , but proposals for change would need to be likely to command widespread support and to provide an appropriate and fair role for both sides of the community . |
| 16 | Of course , the pressure for change may be resisted because birds with brightly coloured or greatly elongated feathers are vulnerable to predators . |
| 17 | Though the task of both understanding the situation and working for change may seem daunting , my experience of the Philippine health movement leaves me reassured . |
| 18 | More fundamentally , the view that pressure for change could have been indefinitely held in check by resolute repression overrates the resources available to unrepentant autocracy . |
| 19 | Asking for change can be likened to persuading someone to climb a mountain . |
| 20 | Finally , the strategies for change can be found in an analysis of what has gone before and a cultural intervention in what is socially happening to disabled people . |
| 21 | Demands for change will continue , but it is difficult to imagine substantial progress being made in the current climate , as broadcasting , and the media in general , becomes increasingly unaccountable to society as a whole . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , proposals for change will become less likely as the lessons of the recent attempts to break the mould of Conservative journalism sink in . |
| 23 | Discussing revolutionary situations , for instance , he remarks a trifle sadly that ‘ unless the revolutionary organisations have a conscious and adequate strategy ’ , which they frequently lack , opportunities for change will go unnoticed . |
| 24 | It calls for an alliance between environmentalists , consumer organizations , churches and trade unions , but concludes that the real impetus for change will come when Southern countries challenge the North 's addiction to consumer lifestyles . |
| 25 | Ultimately the strongest driving force for change must be the students and young doctors themselves . |
| 26 | Through this dense mesh , proposals for change must pass . |
| 27 | For example , the formal machinery of collective bargaining , and the ‘ culture ’ of industrial relations that builds up around it , acts as a filter through which external pressures for change must pass . |
| 28 | So Tory Central Office in their desperate search for support ca n't even filter out the Labour councillors on a council they apparently despise . |
| 29 | Those readers who have applied to traditional funding organisations for support will know that their ideas will be subjected to independent ‘ peer ’ review ; that is , comments are invited ( often in secret ) from those working in related fields on the quality of the proposed research and its chances for success . |
| 30 | It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns . |