Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The inhabitants of Exmoor Forest also complained that :
2 While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance .
3 The booking of Richard Quinn strongly suggests that connections mean business here .
4 The studies of rule enforcement particularly indicate that in most tasks , and particularly in the more elaborate tasks , there will be a strong element of discretion .
5 That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now .
6 The Association of Tennis Professionals yesterday announced that its end-of-season doubles championship next year will take place at the Sanctuary Cove resort near Brisbane in Australia .
7 Reports of rectal isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae also rose and the male to female ratio for patients with rectal gonorrhoea changed from 0.3:1 during 1988–9 to 2.6:1 in 1990–1 .
8 Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community .
9 We understand that there is a dog working party of Council officers already established and we would formally request that the responsible dog ownership group be allowed a representative on that working party to ensure that the views of the two thousand plus petitioners and over two hundred and fifty persons who have written individual letters on the subject to Mister of the recreation division are considered .
10 A succession of opinion surveys strongly suggests that most people regard a family size of two children as ideal ; this preference seems to have grown stronger over the years ( Woolf 1971 , Woolf and Pegden 1976 , Dunnell 1979 , General Household Survey , Jowell et al .
11 In most of the models of temporary equilibrium the only financial asset which is explicitly modelled is the stock of fiat money effectively notes and coin in circulation .
12 of phone boxes now work and that phone call charges have been cut faster in this country than in any other country , thanks to the Government 's privatisation policy ?
13 In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms .
14 A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data .
15 Indeed , as we saw in Chapter 3 , sections 17 and 18 of the Sale of Goods Act expressly recognise that property passes to the buyer at the time the parties intend it to .
16 The so-called ‘ fifth modernisation ’ , democratisation , appeared to be on the agenda , but groups of student activists soon discovered that this was fraught with difficulty and contradiction .
17 Contrary to expectations this growth in the production of consumer goods merely postpones and then magnifies the problem .
18 At the beginning of August Eurotunnel also announced that Racal had been awarded the contract to supply voice and data communications within the Tunnel in the face of fierce competition from Alcatel , Siemens and other major European Companies .
19 Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson .
20 I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know .
21 The great expansion of fossil discoveries now meant that paleontologists were increasingly confident in their ability to plot the course of each group 's development .
22 The dynamics of capital accumulation thus ensure that property is distributed unequally , and that it remains so .
23 For example , regulatory agencies should be strengthened , particularly in their legal departments , so that it would be possible to nurture a pool of state lawyers sufficiently specialized and experienced to be a fair match for corporate lawyers .
24 Recordings of sleep patterns again showed that this was achieved at the expense of REM and Stage 2 sleep , leaving Stage 4 sleep levels unaffected .
25 It 's the kind of endorsement superstars never give while selling their movies , something said because it is the concern at the top of Connery 's mind .
26 Ms Smillie said organisers of training courses often complained that hotels were inflexible towards meal times , unaware of the needs of training and rarely offered the standards of presentation and technology required .
27 However , the experiential nature of police training usually ensures that a commonsense knowledge about these patterns is also built up .
28 If it is required , the notification must be made within seven calendar days and must specify the proportion of voting rights actually held and , if required by the member state , the proportion of share capital .
29 Receipts from a firm of landscape gardeners alone suggested that Collor had spent US$2,500,000 creating a tropical garden in his house in Brasília .
30 The BBC 's own survey of public opinion also indicated that such listeners proved to be more broad-minded and imaginative than their masters thought likely .
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