Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd be eating fried X-rays for breakfast . ’
2 It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed .
3 It is best to use a kicking technique as part of a larger , integrated move , combining all the basic techniques that the beginner has learned .
4 PETER Einstein , director of network development for MTV Europe , has announced the appointment of Tony Wawryk as satellite music and television ( SMATV ) hotels manager .
5 Institutions for change
6 In approaching institutions for help , the appearance of subservience can help people who are clearly powerless .
7 The term ‘ supervision ’ is used here to mean the monitoring of financial institutions for investor protection , prudential regulation , and structural regulation purposes combined .
8 But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent .
9 The House of Lords Select Committee on the EC has welcomed the proposed Directive on the Freedom of Management and Investment of Funds held by Institutions for Retirement Provision .
10 It is to be hoped that NAB 's more open approach will enable it to win consent from the public sector institutions for difficult and unpalatable decisions , though clearly some of its deliberations , concerning the possible closing of institutions for example , will have to be conducted in private .
11 However , the first half of the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in social practice in many Western societies : deviants and dependents were increasingly segregated into institutions — mental hospitals , prisons , reformatories , poorhouses and other such closed purpose-built institutions for control , treatment and punishment ( Rothman , 1970 ; Foucault , 1977 ; Cohen , 1979 ; Melossi and Pavarini , 1981 , Scull 1984 ) .
12 In some cases , there are competing institutions for policy-making and implementation of soil conservation ( such as in FAO itself ) as in many governments of lesser developed countries .
13 The level of cover is usually 90% for buyer risk and 90 — 95% for political risk .
14 The healing rates achieved by a six to eight week treatment of erosive reflux oesophagitis are about 50% for potent histamine H 2 receptor antagonists ( for example , ranitidine ( 150–300 mg twice daily ) ) and up to 90% for omeprazole , a proton pump inhibitor .
15 According to a previous study from Finland , however , the accuracy of the discharge data is good , being about 90% for pancreatitis .
16 The device records hand and finger movements from below transparent surfaces during reading , together with voice output and ( 1/100 sec ) timing .
17 It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers .
18 Given the influence over the culture and literacy of the majority of the population of an " unpropitious environment " and " alternative cultural media " , Bantock claims that attempts through education to impose a " book culture " on this majority merely inflict upon them an unacceptable " strain " .
19 He visited the church of Gesù Nuovo again and made his way to Piazza della Carità for coffee in the same restaurant .
20 Campaigns to improve the health of the armed forces represented a classic instance of the inter-relation between science and politics .
21 I increased the allocation to St. Helens for improvement work from £311,000 last year to £556,000 this year .
22 Psychological reward is derived from simple adherence to standards and routines which , although originally emanating from the housewife as worker , take on an objective quality .
23 This study contradicts the ‘ flocculus hypotheses ’ , which requires activation of vestibular inputs during motor learning .
24 Many families have continued to attach great importance to the family line , adopting their daughter 's husband or another male as heir to the family name where there is no son to succeed .
25 This included unproductive items such as $2,730 for rental of office plants and start-up funds for companies with no projects .
26 You could try writing to a ramp builder , like Rare Unit or Freestyle Ramps for example .
27 This will lead to an exploration of the household division of labour and how far the effects of the year long strike generated enduring changes in the lives of men and women and their views about society and the community .
28 Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop .
29 In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 .
30 Sentencing Tucker , 29 , yesterday assistant recorder Timothy Workman said : ‘ I accept you have sincerely held views about animal rights but those views can never justify the actions you took . ’
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