Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir George Porter , in his reply declared that the allocation of these funds between projects must be the responsibility of the scientists . |
| 2 | I suggest that one solution for biologists will be to apply their expertise to the new science of socioecology , and the environment of the office . |
| 3 | C it is shown that the demand for futures can be split into speculative and hedging components , and that it is rational for a risk-averse trader to speculate and hedge simultaneously in the same future . |
| 4 | This preference for patterns must be taken into account in any survey of early transmutationism . |
| 5 | In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages . |
| 6 | Comparable ideas about artists can be discovered in other cultures , but also very different views . |
| 7 | In it we reaffirmed that all disputes between states should be resolved peacefully in accordance with the provisions of the charter . |
| 8 | Just as ideas of precedence between states could be adjusted in practice to cope with the growing importance of the Dutch republic or Savoy , so governments which really wanted to negotiate could always find ways of doing so which side- stepped difficulties of ceremonial and procedure . |
| 9 | These back developments known as courts could be found in most of the older city streets of my boyhood . |
| 10 | In hospitals , from April , every out-patient will have a fixed appointment time and our guarantee of maximum waiting times for operations will be steadily improved . |
| 11 | Target to reduce waiting times for operations will be build into these agreements . |
| 12 | Thus the cumulative effect of inadequate transport , poor storage , and exposure in consulting rooms during clinics may be considerable . |
| 13 | He advised teachers ‘ to get to it ( the atomic theory ) as quickly as possible ’ , describing it as ‘ one of those short cuts with the human mind often takes to raise itself quickly to a height from which the relations between phenomena can be discerned at a glance ’ . |
| 14 | However , though estimates for riders can be made , the magazine says it is much more difficult to estimate the number of horses . |
| 15 | Questions about objects could be : What is it ? |
| 16 | Typical cost headings for contracts might be : Directly employed labour Labour-only sub-contractors Materials Own stores Nominated suppliers Labour and material sub-contractors Nominated sub-contractors Hired plant Own plant Own transport Special expenses In the case of development projects administered and constructed by the builder a similar breakdown could be used . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that the three surface positions for adjectives can be correlated with the three intensional patterns given in ( 37 ) . |
| 18 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 19 | The co-ordinating council of the officers ' assemblies set up in January [ see p. 38730 ] sent a message to the summit calling on delegates to agree on the draft proposals on military issues , to halt troop withdrawal from eastern Europe until social protection for servicemen could be assured , and to maintain the military at an adequate level for defence . |
| 20 | A first call for proposals may be made in April with a deadline for submission around the end of May . |
| 21 | With this aim in mind , a new Committee for Institutions would be established which would receive the reports of institutional review visits and ensure that the CNAA 's course validation work was informed by a knowledge of the institution concerned and , in particular , of its internal validation and course monitoring processes . |
| 22 | For example , a social welfare budget might be created in that the taxes conceived of as paying for programmes could be allocated in line with the volume of social welfare benefits provided . |
| 23 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 24 | Under the Covenant of the League , disputes between nations could be settled by discussion and arbitration . |
| 25 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |
| 26 | ( Consider the nonsensical case where the core vocabulary is only half a dozen words — strong overlaps between words would be almost inevitable ! ) . |
| 27 | Size and quantity of flowers for vases can be estimated and experimented with . |
| 28 | The attraction of such displays is that multi — dimensional relationships between subjects may be shown since any one subject can be displayed in juxtaposition with several others . |
| 29 | Links between subjects may be sought for to enable a thematic approach or topic work to continue . |
| 30 | Further , classification and the network of relationships between subjects can be a fascinating study in itself , even devoid of application . |