Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I think there is a moral obligation on the E C , not necessarily the Americans because it is a European problem , to intervene at least to the extent of ensuring protection for ordinary civilians and ensuring that they get food and medical s provision .
2 In the frightful aftermath of the war , he dithered about UN protection for fleeing Kurds and presided over the horrendous first muddle in UN relief work .
3 In general , lower levels of NC protein were required to provide similar levels of protection for longer DNAs as compared to shorter DNA fragments , indicating that NCp7 binds cooperatively to DNAs .
4 It also offered concealment and protection for any creature that lived within it .
5 The first — which will start in April next year , and run for three years — is a new system of transitional protection for those households that stand to lose most from the abolition of domestic rates .
6 Its programme included the raising of the conscription age to fifty , the closing of German-owned businesses , the internment of enemy aliens , conscription for Ireland , a guaran-teed price for home-grown cereals , protection for British industry and counter air raids against German towns .
7 In reality , most attorneys have made almost no preparation for this phase and do not really understand it .
8 It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment .
9 The company is building several satellites for European organisations but has yet to win an order from the developing world .
10 As regards long-term plans by British Rail for expanding services and re-equipping certain lines , the hon. Gentleman will be aware that Sir Bob Reid , the chairman , published a document in the middle of last year which looked forward 10 years to railway investment .
11 Practice specific work includes analysis of prescribing and visits to understand the reasons for apparent over- and under-prescribing .
12 It is indicative of the lack of serious analysis of the artefact , however , that even for such a politically sensitive issue as the division between private purchase and state allocation , the implications for the subsequent relationship people have with those goods are quite unknown ( with the possible exception of housing ) .
13 It has not only failed in this , it has opened up a potential new division between private practice and employed lawyers .
14 To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest .
15 Most important of all , it is now possible to discern in the structure that is emerging from the subject reports and the National Curriculum Council some windows of opportunity for good teachers and thinking schools .
16 ensure each placement provides opportunity for personal development and adopts a student-centred approach which is responsive to the individual learning needs of the student ;
17 Its primary function was to generate goodwill among the Mediterranean non-aligned states for Soviet policies and to encourage these countries in their search for effective measures for the demilitarisation of the Mediterranean region .
18 It now has planning permission for 7,000 plots and aims to increase annual spending on land to as much as £75 million .
19 Filters were blocked in HYB100 ( 20 mM Hepes-KOH ( 7.7 ) , 100 mM KCl , 2.5 mM MgCl 2 , 0.1mM EDTA , 1mM DTT , 0.05% NP40 ) + 5% marvel dried milk for 30 minutes , HYB100 + 1% marvel for 15 minutes and incubated overnight with 32 P-CREB ( ∼1ng/ml or ∼5 10 4 cpm/ml ) in HYB100 + 1% marvel .
20 That is , it may be easier to agree a price for a contract for clinical services than to assess cost or cost-effectiveness .
21 The chairman of the Conservative party , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , and the hon. Member for Stockton , South have tried to knock down the political and economic case for regional policy that has been advanced by the Labour party .
22 The confused picture was not helped yesterday morning when Miss Widdicombe was asked in an interview whether this was surely a special case for extra payments and replied : ‘ Why is it special ? ’
23 What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures .
24 Firms may also make provision for bridging loans or provide temporary mortgage facilities .
25 They should also press for the training necessary to enable them to carry out their duties of securing provision for individual pupils and working to ensure that special education is esteemed as highly as any other form of education within a system in which schools will have greater control over resources and the setting of priorities for their use .
26 The Scheme had already taken steps in this direction for new employees but had no plans to equalize the NRAs of existing members .
27 On Aug. 15 the governments of the Russian Federation and Lithuania signed an agreement on bilateral trade and economic co-operation for 1991 , and on the following day Byelorussia and Azerbaijan signed a trade and economic agreement for 1991 based on mutually advantageous exchanges of Azerbaijani oil and fruit and vegetables for Byelorussian technologies and manufactures .
28 This analysis was not universally accepted , and it is clear that many preferred to tackle the problem of dishonesty through preventative action than to vacate the ‘ moral high ground ’ by abandoning or altering too radically the present basis of claim settlement .
29 Equally , the growth of the personnel function tended to minimise the responsibility of all managers for the effectiveness of staff management , either denying the significance of skills for managing people or delegating personnel issues .
30 This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately .
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