Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen , ’ he hissed as the porter walked on oblivious to what was happening behind him . |
| 2 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 3 | Previously , she had felt that the activities provided for retired people were not sufficiently mind-stretching and seemed to be based on younger people 's vision of what pensioners wanted . |
| 4 | The activities required for successful operation of the EPH were known , and , based on the acquired knowledge of the EPH environment , those activities that were suitable for computer support could , in consultation with the client , be identified with reasonable accuracy . |
| 5 | The Mayor then faced the prospect of the defence arguing in open court that Ajdabiya was not autonomous , was indeed subject to the authority of Tripoli , while his prosecuting policemen argued that Ajdabiya was independent and sovereign . |
| 6 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |
| 7 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 8 | The response depends on continuous excitatory discharge to the coxal adductor muscles by only one or two neurons . |
| 9 | This is analogous to the complexity of computers where the signals are essentially noughts and ones but the response depends on previous events . |
| 10 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 11 | The level of charge will depend on how much the local council spends on services and the income received from central government and business rates . |
| 12 | Er and that 's that he 's pulled out here the income generated by various departments . |
| 13 | The Customs and Excise must be satisfied that there is a good reason for registration , and that the income derived from taxable supplies contributes substantially to the livelihood of the business . |
| 14 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 15 | When there are no price changes the income yielded in historic cost accruals accounting is an acceptable measure of performance : more profit implies more success . |
| 16 | The inability to operate with high levels of trust itself implies the use of more complex formal organisational arrangements as a replacement for the more informal co-ordination mechanisms which are possible when there is a higher level of good will . |
| 17 | Indecisiveness , insufficient financial resources , a hostile press , the inability to count on sufficient political support , and lack of creative imagination are the negative factors which will bear on his personal decision . |
| 18 | The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth ; and the oceans fill the spaces in between . |
| 19 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 20 | What the trust offered was the opportunity to invest in interest-bearing mortgages . |
| 21 | Her studies were interrupted by the opportunity to go into local politics , from which she has never looked back . |
| 22 | The table shows the enthusiasm with which centres took the opportunity to go beyond straightforward transfer of old courses . |
| 23 | As far as their disabilities allow they should have the opportunity to participate in normal community activities . |
| 24 | It is a common and enormously frustrating experience for foreign language learners , presented with the opportunity to participate in authentic conversation with native speakers , to fail to join in successfully , despite having a high level of proficiency in the classroom . |
| 25 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 26 | He believes that older people should be given the opportunity to participate in civic activities during retirement and argues for : |
| 27 | To illustrate this I will describe in some detail the example of my own school , where the governing body has grasped the opportunity presented by recent legislation to formalise a long-established tradition of teacher involvement in decision-making . |
| 28 | Being free from the constraint of responding to logged calls and from the need to react quickly to one call after another gives the neighbourhood police the opportunity to engage in prolonged contact with the public . |
| 29 | It gives me the opportunity to explain in proper terms why the Government took that step and to give the lie to many of the hon. Gentleman 's arguments . |
| 30 | Such an idea offers elders , carers and practitioners the opportunity to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate suffering . |