Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 2 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 3 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 4 | Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology . |
| 5 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 6 | Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 7 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 8 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 9 | The average price at which shares sell during this period is somewhere in the neighbourhood of $55 ( more or less depending on the shape of the time-price curve ) . |
| 10 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 11 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 12 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 13 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 14 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 15 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 16 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 17 | But now fewer than five varieties predominate for each crop and even these are ‘ kissing cousins ’ of one another , genetically almost identical . |
| 18 | Account for each clause of the following newspaper report in terms of the writer 's assumptions of what is given and new information for the reader . |
| 19 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 20 | They now account for another quarter . |
| 21 | In public discussion , however , the idea that genes account for most variation among IQs seems not only controversial but also associated with a few men of allegedly questionable character . |
| 22 | Several factors account for this distribution : the ageing of populations in situ ; out-migration of the young and in-migration of older people . |
| 23 | Introduced populations now feral in southern England probably account for some Sussex records , making the status of truly wild birds very difficult to assess . |
| 24 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 25 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 26 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 27 | Civil penalties include a triple damages award for any person whose business or property is harmed as a result of the violation . |
| 28 | Fold the strip along its length where the corners occur so that you have a sharp , straight crease for each angle of the tin . |
| 29 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 30 | Again there are two types of criticism that Keynesians make about this link . |