Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A willingness to take risks and make mistakes in the process is , however , necessary . |
| 2 | Few medical procedures carry no risk of any kind , and it seems to me that it would be impossible for one body to assume responsibility for measuring risks and assessing treatments throughout the whole of medical practice . |
| 3 | She bustled round , putting on kettles and opening tins of biscuits and cake . |
| 4 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 5 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 6 | We sang protest songs and shouted slogans against the government and to demand the release of the BPR leaders and all political Prisoners . |
| 7 | A small amount of leather is left after cutting , and to my surprise this was also checked and the offcuts matched to the straps to produce the adjusting piece for two-piece leather straps , or the strap button fobs and end pieces on Klondyke 's range of webbing and stretch straps . |
| 8 | More recently , in his The Sons of Horus he has found ways of incorporating the profiled attitudes and poses seen in ancient Egyptian designs with straight turned-in legs , elongated lines and angled arms , all in contrast to the turnedout legs and curving bodies of classical dance . |
| 9 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 10 | Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style . |
| 11 | However , most contemporary football hooliganism corresponds to the outlawry of time-out forms manifested in fights between opposing fans and creating mayhem during trips abroad . |
| 12 | A vegetable rinse disguised any grey hairs and gave shine to her new style . |
| 13 | Blake was then posted as an MI6 officer to the British Legation in Seoul , Korea where in 1950 he and other members of the legation staff were captured by the North Koreans and held prisoner until the spring of 1953 . |
| 14 | Most peoples of the world do not , in their conservative heart to hearts , like foreigners and display feelings of hostility ( often tinged with fear ) towards them . |
| 15 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 16 | The authorities must see to it that there is a tried and tested method of reading the danger signals and offering counselling to those with access to firearms . |
| 17 | A number of the latter equipped 728B Squadron at RNAS Hal Far , Malta to provide pilot-less target drones for RN Firestreak armed fighters and Seaslug missiles on HM warships . |
| 18 | When the new Parish Priest arrives to take up his post he is very quickly introduced to the petty jealousies and gossip mongering of village life . |
| 19 | The starter kit will be followed by full communications to provide transparent access , storing and sharing of objects distributed in multiple databases and mixed networks of Unix , VMS and Windows NT that use the Network File System protocol ; it will be available in August at $3,000 . |
| 20 | The starter kit will be followed by full communications to provide transparent access , storing and sharing of objects distributed in multiple databases and mixed networks of Unix , VMS and Windows NT that use the Network File System protocol . |
| 21 | The former communist leaders in eastern Germany were enthusiastic deerhunters and allowed wolves to be hunted and shot in order to protect game reserves . |
| 22 | The use of a facilitator to lead analytical review sessions and to provide data on team behaviour . |
| 23 | The choices of those with power to direct organizations and initiate changes in structure are among the determinants of organizational designs ( Child 1973 ) . |
| 24 | They can place children in homes run by voluntary organizations and make contributions to their costs , and they have certain powers to inspect voluntary homes . |
| 25 | The special session announced the creation of working groups to overhaul mass organizations and to strengthen participation in the municipal and provincial people 's power system of government ; and it proposed the National Assembly of People 's Power be upgraded to play a more dynamic role in assessing government performance . |
| 26 | Authority The right to control finance , information , people , equipment , materials etc. in organizations and to have access to important decision-making processes . |
| 27 | Once again Edward had set precedents and opened opportunities for extensive royal exploitation subsequently . |
| 28 | The security apparatus , known as Stasi by the people who feared it , is on its last legs after 39 years of running agents , snooping on dissidents and harassing critics of the ruling Communist party . |
| 29 | Another young patriot , Andrew of Moray , however , assembled further dissidents and joined forces with Wallace after a mutually enthusiastic meeting at Perth . |
| 30 | In the words of others he springs into action as a political firebrand , marching into the coal-owners ' offices and demanding justice for their exploited work-force , only to be told that the coal seams were too meagre and the profit margin too small to provide improvements in safety standards . |