Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having settled one set of problems and delineated a pattern for higher education , had Robbins left the way open for a succession of what Eric Robinson called ‘ small cadet universities ’ — ; some of which were in fact very similar to the CATs , and others of which might see no future except in aspiring to enter the university sector ? |
| 2 | The assumption of failure on basic skills training was subsequently shown to be incorrect when the two surveys by HM Inspectorate were published , but then , as Reid ( 1978 ) argues , the DES seemed more interested in proposing solutions than in defining problems . |
| 3 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 4 | The thinking is that cyclists and pedestrians , though not always comfortable companions , stand to gain more by tolerating each other in mutual exclusion of the car than by continuing traditional attitudes which will prevent a full realisation of the benefits to town centres of encouraging the soft modes of transport . |
| 5 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 6 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ There is no greater investment than in giving people new skills . ’ |
| 8 | A pale , bespectacled , thin central European with a diffident manner and an imperfect Command of English , more interested in reading books than in cutting a dash . |
| 9 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 10 | So Naomi shepherds her elsewhere , to an earnest , ageing liberal , whose crisply greying beard speaks less of Torah scholarship than of Sitting Down against the Vietnam War in Grosvenor Square . |
| 11 | One uncomfortable consequence of the seemly recognition of the needs of the rest of Europe is that there is no way of bringing Central Europe into the fold except by letting its members earn their keep , implying a repartition of the industrial division of labour now in place . |
| 12 | Apart from becoming highly energetic and making the body burn up many more calories daily — a possible but usually very slow method of shedding weight — there is no other way of losing weight than by depriving the body of calories . |
| 13 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 14 | Too often , governments find it easier to trim their budgets by charging fees at rural clinics and schools than by firing soldiers or well-connected cronies . |
| 15 | When Richard did not respond to his greeting except by frowning and then turning away , Hugh remained undismayed . |
| 16 | The perceptive Boris Chicherin spotted as early as 1858 that The Bell was " better at throwing government and society into confusion than at suggesting the precise path they should follow " . |
| 17 | Equally , any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules . |
| 18 | There can be no better way to ensure a successful personal injury ( PI ) practice than by doing the work well ; there is no better source of advertising than a satisfied client . |
| 19 | There will always be conflict in people 's perception of proper animal care , but it is easier to set standards for handling domesticated animals than for exploiting wild ones . |
| 20 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |
| 21 | It was 1859 before Alexander gave reformers their head by granting them control of the Editing Commissions , and by then the prestige of the throne would have suffered far more from the abandonment of emancipation than from allowing a version of it to go through . |
| 22 | This may not be possible if the vendors do not have available funds until after receiving the sale proceeds , in which case a risk premium needs to be built into the fee structure because of contingent nature of the job . |
| 23 | As Phillip Bacon put it , ‘ It will be a tragedy if by auctioning all the paintings at once the market is flooded and the sale flops . |
| 24 | Many Japanese companies face cash shortages because of plunging profits during Japan 's recession , the worst in nearly 20 years . |
| 25 | St Augustine 's and St Bede 's in Darlington are manifestly good schools which were at risk of becoming bad schools because of overcrowding . |
| 26 | JAPAN produced conflicting economic signals yesterday , announcing a record current account trade surplus at the same time as more companies imposed reductions in bonuses because of falling profits . |
| 27 | I and Vicki we do n't really like caramels because of chewing them and every one we |
| 28 | Scandinavian countries were the first to have to close waterways because of poisoning problems and now Britain has a potential crisis . |
| 29 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 30 | It might include a complex co-ordination between arms and legs as in driving a car . |