Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget proposal was also assailed for including measures which had been suggested by the Reagan adminstration but which had been abandoned after their rejection by Congress . |
| 2 | What is more , a technical standard for representing letters which uses Bézier curves does not depend on any characteristic of the machine which is doing the printing : the same set of curves can be used to drive a professional typesetter or a cheap laser-printer ( though most fonts have to include ‘ hints ’ which help coarser machines interpret the curves ) . |
| 3 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 4 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 5 | The Committee held four meetings , and after hearing charges which had been formulated by the Professional Conduct Committee under Byelaw 5 , reprimanded two members who were found to have misconducted themselves and expelled two others from membership . |
| 6 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 7 | The use of these somewhat esoteric labels may obviate the difficulties of using terms which have a common and often imprecise meaning for a precise purpose — a problem which has afflicted the understanding of Hirst 's work — but it has also limited their circulation , and outside the rather enclosed world of curriculum theory , Phenix 's work is largely unknown . |
| 8 | He was also accused of using words which twisted meanings , such as ‘ congregation ’ instead of church , and ‘ senior ’ or ‘ elder ‘ instead of ‘ priest ’ . |
| 9 | ELEMENTAL spirits found on the Isle of Man , they have a malicious habit of magnetising stones which mark the road 's edges ; these then exert a strong pull on passing motor cars , causing them to swerve off the road despite the driver 's efforts . |
| 10 | ‘ Well it 's really very difficult , ’ Wolff tried to explain , in what was once called broken English , ‘ but in the proverbial nutshell it 's the application of engineering thought and engineering practice , which really means technology , to medical and biological problems , both on the research side and in terms of producing products which help in the treatment of patients . ’ |
| 11 | If we consider irregularly shaped areas on the sphere ( X and Y ) , rather than the regular segments , these can be seen to move apart in such a way that their motion can similarly be described with respect to the same pole of rotation at A. The effect is clearly illustrated in the alignment of transform faults which mark the off-sets along either side of divergent plate boundaries ( Fig. 2.15B ) . |
| 12 | The Capital Guarantee Bond is ideal in that respect and fits well with our corporate strategy of launching contracts which consume little capital . |
| 13 | Briefly , this involves recasting the company into a number of operating divisions which take day-to-day decisions concerning particular product ranges . |
| 14 | The transformational component is a set of tree-rewrite rules which specify how to produce surface structure trees from the deep structure tree . |
| 15 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 16 | To be fair we have also been offered the chance of revising articles which attracted substantial justifiable criticism . |
| 17 | So well organised in support of their pay were the highly skilled journeymen calico printers in the late eighteenth century that even before the advent of machine printing de-skilled them , some employers turned to alternative methods of patterning cloths which used cheaper female and child labour . |
| 18 | Using a variety of ordering algorithms which complement one another provides a check that the contigs they produce are not just artifacts . |
| 19 | This does not mean that you should promptly forget the whole idea of noting items which come into this category ; but that , as this is such a very personal decision area , only you can really make the assessments . |
| 20 | There was an expel-air machine on a bank of filing cabinets which rattled in the stillness of the room . |
| 21 | Judge Leo Clark told Dawtrey it was a bad case , with a number of aggravating features which included running away from the scene in complete disregard for the lorry and its driver' . ’ |
| 22 | Erm so in assuming that that in these sort of situations , the speaker and the listener erm quote Share a set of interpreted procedures which allow speakers intention to be encoded by the speaker and correctly interpreted by the listener . |
| 23 | No case bearing a strong analogy to the present was cited ; but the importance of enforcing promises which have been made to induce parties to marry has been often recognised , and the cases of Montefiori v. Montefiori ( ( 1762 ) 1 W.Bl. 363 ) and Bold v. Hutchinson ( ( 1855 ) 20 Beavan 250 ) are examples . |
| 24 | Turning from the attractions of the Scotch whisky industry , can the Minister give us more information about the important regulatory aspects of getting companies which sub-contract to the Ministry of Defence to pay their bills or have them paid quickly ? |
| 25 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 26 | The United Kingdom is not alone in having traditional areas of responsibility and means of allocating resources which mitigate against joint planning and collaboration . |
| 27 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 28 | As well as the full list of standard drawing tools it offers a helpful range of positioning aids which cause points to ‘ snap ’ to particular positions — mid point , perpendicular etc . |
| 29 | It would seem that groupings of authorities and academic institutions which are geographically close have much to recommend them in terms of the potential savings on travelling expenses , and this is clearly also true in terms of projects for the creation of teaching materials which need to bring together a number of practitioners from different schools on a regular basis . |
| 30 | We included in an appendix a selection of teaching strategies which provide ‘ ways into texts ’ of whatever genre , period or level of difficulty . |