Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 2 | Requests for copy on graphics or proofing printers which would occupy two columns or less in the dictionary should normally be satisfied within thirty minutes . |
| 3 | The five-year plan — despite liberalisation , India is still locked into the shackles of state planning — which runs until March 1997 calls for investment of $12,900m for telecommunications . |
| 4 | This Act introduced the Rate Support Grant , made LEAs ( rather than central government ) responsible for paying for school meals and milk , and allocated funds ( under Section 11 ) to local authorities for payment of staff employed specifically for the education and welfare of immigrants . |
| 5 | Chemical analysis of coals after heating at 400°C for three days showed them to have a residual gas-generating capacity . |
| 6 | Later Anne thought over Sarah 's words about clothes for people who needed them and felt ashamed that she had not thought of their plight . |
| 7 | One way concerns cooperative relationships between genes within species . |
| 8 | So promoting mental health is about personal interactions , the stability of communities , relationships between groups of people and even matters of international peace and harmony . |
| 9 | VOLUNTARY groups in the province today warned they would be flooded with desperate demands for help from people forced into cash crises by the Government 's plans to impose a VAT levy on domestic fuel . |
| 10 | According to the more experienced officers , the incessant demands for paper from headquarters divert them from more pressing tasks and display an innocence among senior staff about the nature of the job , a view the more firmly held in the knowledge that few senior men have ever worked in the field themselves ( cf. |
| 11 | Could my right hon. Friend make it clear that , during the passage of the Bill , he and his colleagues will have consultations with those who make representations to ensure that their worries about links between people with different claims and the causes of large-scale immigration are considered together ? |
| 12 | Exploiting opportunities for education of people of all ages and in various settings ( home , school and workplace ) is probably the main way in which nurses can contribute to the collective effort to prevent injury and ill-health which is caused by accident , fire , infection and pollution . |
| 13 | Transputers for Geometric Modelling : Parallel algorithms for use in graphics application ; Manipulation and display of a model held as a wire line model , of a model built using constructive solid geometry and of a model based on the spatial enumeration cuboids ; Accessing pixel-based data in an ordering which is that of a cubic spiral . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in ordinations of vegetation , the regeneration characteristics of assemblages of species may give meaning to the observeddistribution of vegetation types , rather than the terrestrial features of the environment . |
| 15 | It includes all sorts of conditions of people in its audience , and it links them — in the cliche beloved by trade union spokesman — at that moment in time . |
| 16 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 17 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 19 | The trouble is there are all sorts of qualifications to statistics like these . |
| 20 | It is worth emphasising that the period spanned by the lives of El Greco and Velázquez saw in Latin America the consolidation of colonial government and of the Christian church , the establishment of the Spanish language and of European culture , the introduction of new methods of exploitation of people and resources . |
| 21 | There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money-back guarantee . |
| 22 | Zitel Corp saw in first quarter net losses of $3.1m against $61,000 profits last time , on sales down 43.7% to $6.3m . |
| 23 | In 1988 Medi-Physics made operating losses of $7.4m on sales of $53.2m and its unaudited net assets at the end of August were $63.2m . |
| 24 | Contracts closed with losses of £32 to £44 a tonne despite late shortcovering and technical buying which helped the market stage a partial late rally . |
| 25 | In the US , profits for the full year were down to £83m from £155m , while the company 's activities in the rest of the world saw losses of £60m against £364m profits in 1990 . |
| 26 | Under the agreement , the employer was paid a fee of £30,000 and the right to receive royalties of 10% on sales or sub-licences . |
| 27 | Early studies by Cooke showed that ethanol in concentrations of 1% to 20% did not stimulate gastric acid secretion . |
| 28 | Another to pay out a substantial sum was one of Scotland 's leading hill farmers , William Mitchell of Hazelside , Douglas , Lanark , who bought 102 units of quota at £46 . |
| 29 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 30 | What is true of academic life for a teacher of jurisprudence is no doubt equally true in other walks of life for people in business , industry , the civil service , legal practice , farming and indeed fishing . |