Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 4 | Rules change on pets likely |
| 5 | Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 8 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 9 | The queen asked how the groups got on coming from so many different backgrounds and cultures , and if they were making any new recruits . |
| 10 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 11 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 12 | Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them . |
| 13 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 14 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 15 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 16 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 17 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
| 18 | Other Groups Other smaller groups , such as the Brass Ensemble , Saxophone Quartet and the Madrigal Group , are joined by invitation only , but there are many ad hoc informal groups formed by pupils themselves , and any such initiative is welcomed and encouraged by the Music Department . |
| 19 | By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià . |
| 20 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 21 | The Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a loose alliance of opposition groups formed in July 1990 , immediately applied for registration as a political party . |
| 22 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 23 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 24 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 25 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As the final notes quivered into silence and he left the stage to tumultuous applause , she rose to her feet in spontaneous acclaim for his effort . |
| 28 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 29 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 30 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |