Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 2 | Rules change on pets likely |
| 3 | Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs . |
| 4 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 5 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 6 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 7 | Since institutions tend to be affected in the same way by the same set of factors , share prices will be more volatile than would otherwise be the case . |
| 8 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 9 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 10 | At Hawes there are shops , cafes , pubs , a rope works , the biggest sheep mart in the Dales and a cheese factory where the traditional Wensleydale cheeses with their distinctive mild flavour and crumbly flesh are made . |
| 11 | In their church growth analysis , Currie , Gilbert and Horsley distinguish between autogenous and allogenous growth ( Currie , Gilbert and Horsley 1977:80 ) . |
| 12 | Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level . |
| 13 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 14 | Hares that can not avoid areas with huge fields under monoculture compensate by establishing very large home ranges . |
| 15 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 16 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 17 | We proposed that arrays of dimeric met repressor molecules bind to these extended operator regions , with a stoichiometry of one repressor per met box , to form a left-handed superhelix around the DNA . |
| 18 | The SAM molecules bind to the faces of the repressors , remote from the DNA , with their positively charged sulphur atoms lying at the carboxy termini of the B helices , as in the holorepressor structure . |
| 19 | However , the final , as yet small , family of cell adhesion molecules bind to carbohydrates . |
| 20 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 21 | Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part . |
| 22 | The gastritis patients were given 50 mL of platelet concentrate at gastroscopy . |
| 23 | How do existing training and employment policies discriminate against women ? |
| 24 | How do existing training and employment policies discriminate against people with disabilities ? |
| 25 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 26 | This was ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /F t , plus the interest at the risk-free rate ( r ) on the average price of the futures contract during the period , that is , r ( F t +1 ; + F t ) /2F t , to give [ F t +1 ; ( 2 + r ) - F t ( 2 - r ) ] /2F t as the measure of return on a future . |
| 27 | If it were not for the possibility of physical delivery of the underlying cash market good by the seller of the futures contract to the buyer , there would be no mechanism to guarantee convergence of futures and spot prices . |
| 28 | However , the bank can also use an exchange traded futures contract to further reduce its risk in taking on the forward contract . |
| 29 | The futures contract for June expiry stayed close to its ‘ fair value ’ premium of 29 points for most of the day . |
| 30 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |