Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same there is a strong argument that low investment in the British economy is not just a matter of funds being unavailable ; there is a reluctance to borrow for investment purposes on the part of many enterprises . |
| 2 | In October 1986 Central Council approved a proposal made by Air Vice-Marshal Bill Gill that Eagle Lodges should be developed as welfare facilities for the Association . |
| 3 | In all five states it was found that there had been " massive rigging , tampering with figures [ and ] double voting " with the result that the number of votes cast exceeded the number of people registered as party members for the two parties . |
| 4 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 5 | The Personal Video System is the first major product developed for business customers through a collaboration of AT&T Global Business Communications Systems , NCR and AT&T Microelectronics and the first to use the AT&T AVP 4000 video compression chip set , which is based on the Px64 standards for video and audio compression . |
| 6 | After dutifully inspecting the destruction at the El Azziziya barracks , where the Libyan leader lived , at the port of Sidi Balal and at Tripoli airport , as well as the damage done to the French Embassy and to civilian homes adjoining the target areas , Coleman left the media pack clamouring for phone lines at the El Khebir hotel or doing ‘ stand-ups ’ on the roof and went off on his own . |
| 7 | Under the present system , gains and losses arising from currency fluctuations are not always taken into account for tax purposes in the same way , or even at all . |
| 8 | In response , the government was reported to have broken off peace talks with the FARC and ELN , describing the raid as a " criminal action " . |
| 9 | Most instruction is given during school hours on a rota system so that the same class is not missed every week . |
| 10 | ( h ) convertible loan stock which is not quoted on a recognised stock exchange , or is not issued on terms which are reasonably comparable with the terms of quoted convertible stock , can cause a problem as the interest payable on it will fall to be treated for tax purposes as a distribution ( ICTA 1988 , s209(2) ( e ) ( ii ) ) . |
| 11 | Each span has a 1 or 1½ hp electric motor which drives through reduction gearboxes to the pair of heavy duty tyres . |
| 12 | In bookkeeping terms the depreciation amounts are regarded as debit entries in an intermediate account which is then transferred to the profit and loss account at the end of the accounting period . |
| 13 | In bookkeeping terms the depreciation amounts are regarded as debit entries in an intermediate account which is then transferred to the profit and loss account at the end of the accounting period . |
| 14 | Perhaps self-reports of sickness should be substituted for death rates in the RAWP formula . |
| 15 | These higher social classes may themselves act as opinion leaders for the other social classes , who , over a period of time , may adopt the change . |
| 16 | Conservative and non-conservative actions are identified by the form of the matrices appearing as coefficient arrays in the equations of motion . |
| 17 | ROCKETING power prices have been blamed for job losses at a Cheshire chemical firm . |
| 18 | While unable to comment about launch details on the eve of reporting its financial results , Forte says the marketing campaign will include national advertising through to direct mail to ‘ present selections of hotels from the collection to segmented groups in the leisure and business markets ’ . |
| 19 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 20 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between cockle pickers on a West Wales beach . |
| 21 | As yet , industry hereabouts may not fully have ‘ taken off ’ , but at the same time the many £2 assessments downgraded for tax purposes in the Vale region indicate a degree of recession , the state of some towns hinting at an uneasy period of relocation . |
| 22 | It was agreed by a single vote to defer a decision until consultations with clubs booked for weekend activities until the middle of December . |
| 23 | The choice lies between print films with a narrower contrast range and variable colour balance depending on printing filtration , and reversal films with a higher contrast and resolution range but where subsequent correction is not possible . |
| 24 | Still hats off to the both of them for agreeing to work as shop assistants for the day to raise money for AIDS charity , the Terrence Higgins Trust . |
| 25 | In deploring this latest IRA atrocity , and hoping that those responsible will be brought to justice — like all those , from both sides in Northern Ireland , who carry out squalid murders — may I ask whether the Secretary of State agrees that it is important that we do not play into the hands of the Provisional IRA by following policies which , although the IRA deny it , they want for propaganda purposes in the Republic of Ireland and the United States ? |
| 26 | Paper-thin knives of light penetrated through air vents in the dispenser 's casing and drew hot lines across Bernice 's face . |
| 27 | They make up twenty three per cent of those currently applying for council homes in the Forest . |
| 28 | The capital cost of building plants in the Middle East is very high . |
| 29 | Not so much Allen Ginsberg as Alien Ginsberg , he handles the reverence expected of poetry meetings like a man beating a rat . |
| 30 | ‘ But we can not do anything until we know what will be expected of football clubs in the future in terms of all-seater grounds or any other issues . |