Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 2 | The following month Najib conceded that the Marxist authorities of the DRA were ready for contacts with supporters of Zahir Shah to promote a settlement . |
| 3 | The domestic car manufacturing industry , heavily protected since the 1950s , had already begun to face some competition from imports when quotas were partially lifted in July 1990 [ see also p. 38002 for reduction in tariffs on imports ] . |
| 4 | Through exposure to children on school practice , through attending lectures , writing essays and being reasonably responsible in college we would ( he said ) be ready , in two years , to enter teaching . |
| 5 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 6 | It is tempting to compare the role of the Commissioner with that of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality , bodies that are empowered to support individual cases in connection with complaints about discrimination on grounds of sex or race respectively . |
| 7 | The term ‘ cloning ’ refers to a method of asexual reproduction , such as grafting of varieties of apples , whereby all offspring are exact genetic replicas of the parent stock . |
| 8 | For change of parties on application , see Chapter 5 . |
| 9 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 10 | Abrams believed neighbouring to hang on a dilemma which those who live near to each other have between the need for support in times of crisis and the need for privacy . |
| 11 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 12 | then entrance requirements for SCE candidates and GCE candidates separately : these include the normal minimum grades required for admission in terms of SCE Highers or GCE A-levels , and any specific subject qualifications required ( such as Higher or A-level Physics for entry to degrees in Engineering ) . |
| 13 | This will not , however , address the deficiencies of local storage facilities on those occasions , such as immunisation of children at school , when vaccines need to be transported to other sites . |
| 14 | A third aim is to suggest possible hypotheses directed towards explaining differences between housewives in attitudes to housework and the housework situation . |
| 15 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 16 | A survey was commissioned to cover both raw data such as the proportion of women barristers at each stage of their career at the Bar , and also qualitative data such as attitudes towards careers for women barristers . |
| 17 | It was comparatively rare for cases of assaults against females to receive sustained coverage and , indeed , there were only three cases where at least one newspaper covered the case on three or more separate days . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't mind lobbyists , I 'd just rather they called themselves by their proper name as they do in Washington , rather than wittering on for hours about relationships with opinion-formers . |
| 19 | McPherson , who has every intention of returning to Burnbrae next season , if he can manage it , turns out for West against Watsonians at Myreside tomorrow where the home side will have the considerable assistance of Gavin Hastings , who will spend a nail-biting weekend as he waits to hear if he is to captain the Lions , the squad being announced on Monday . |
| 20 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 21 | It prefers to publish Charters laying the onus for provision of services on others . |
| 22 | Laser treatment is now established in many units for palliation of symptoms in patients with inoperable rectal cancer . |
| 23 | Although the Fisher/Clark thesis does not entail the post-industrial argument , the two accounts offer a similar explanation for shifts in patterns of demand . |
| 24 | In the afternoon he will go to Capitol Hill for discussions with members of Congress . |
| 25 | Under both the Institution of Civil Engineer 's Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) and Joint Contracts Tribunal conditions the contractor may apply for payment for permanent work done to date and , depending on the terms of the contract , for purchase of goods off site ( subject to title to the goods having passed to the employer ) . |
| 26 | A most important consideration in laser techniques is the sensitivity of detection , which depends on the probability ( the ‘ cross section ’ ) for absorption of photons by atoms . |
| 27 | Many functionalists argue that this integration is based largely on ‘ value consensus ’ , that is on agreement about values by members of society . |
| 28 | An agreement to resume diplomatic relations with Syria after a 30-month break was announced on Jan. 9 , 1989 ( for severance of relations in July 1987 following Hassan 's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister see pp. 34832-33 ) . |
| 29 | Labour Members should consider what is said in the parents charter about inspection of schools in Wales . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Defence announced today that it will close in 20 months time as part of cutbacks in defence spending . |