Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 , writes : WHILE LOOKING through a book of Royal photos the other day I noticed that Prince Charles seems to wear kilts of different tartans .
2 The requirement for exogenous administration of cholinergic agents to stimulate motility in isolated models of mammalian small bowel , has been described previously .
3 For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums .
4 Accelerated rates of change demand improved organization and procedures to increase the ability to adapt to new conditions and to conserve money by well-designed , economical manufacturing ; keeping this in focus often requires a single vision .
5 So Kant sought by ‘ limiting knowledge to make room for faith ’ , and to connect faith with moral awareness and action .
6 It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction .
7 ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’
8 The SOC agreed to accept the wording of the draft UN agreement ( " Cambodia 's tragic recent history requires special measures to assure protection of human rights " ) .
9 The Nianias report on European Commission proposals for older people calls on the commission to conduct investigations into discriminatory practices on the grounds of age and initiate action to bring about equal treatment for elderly people .
10 A very simple design is to weave strips of various lengths , which is particularly effective on sideways knitted garments .
11 Damascus urged the Lebanese to allow the PLO to continue operations from southern Lebanon while ordering the Syrian security services to ensure that no such activity could be undertaken by Palestinians from Syrian territory .
12 The Germans are asking their ‘ sickness funds ’ ( which collect payroll taxes and arrange for care ) to cancel contracts with inefficient hospitals and are obliging hospitals to publish details of their costs .
13 Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them .
14 It is therefore possible that PYY 's ability to inhibit motility in whole animal and human models is a result of its action at a more proximal level in the gut or at a central location .
15 The trio , competing with HP , expect to see $30m in combined worldwide revenue from year one .
16 It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States .
17 If the supports provided for in the Directive are used to stimulate intensification of agricultural production ( as is the case in the UK ) , losses of features of both landscape and nature conservation value are inevitable .
18 These include aids intended to overcome regional deprivations , aid to promote projects of common European interest or to remedy serious disturbances within an economy , and assistance to promote economic development , provided this does not adversely affect trade .
19 Mr Killeen said the organisation was calling on the Government to support proposals for regular weekly payments towards fuel costs for all households in receipt of means tested benefits .
20 They also want the government to support proposals for national parks in Scotland .
21 MIPS RALLIES ALLIES TO INVEST $150m IN JOINT T5 R-SERIES EFFORT
22 MIPS RALLIES ALLIES TO INVEST $150m IN JOINT T5 R-SERIES EFFORT
23 But without denying grounds for concern about the outcast Gaddafi government that sent them here to acquire skills of obvious military value , there are also grounds for concern about the long arm government regulating traffic inside the boundaries of the academic world .
24 Branches will now be able to monitor progress through weekly reports and will receive statements of performance from their regional office at the end of each period .
25 Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists were both said to be planning campaigns to monitor progress towards democratic elections .
26 Their failure to include suitable controls with other small intestinal disorders or to perform assays for other bacterial antigens , however , makes interpretation of their results difficult .
27 A two-tier system would justify the vast resources that were needed to support investigations into computer-assisted crimes .
28 The project will expand on and develop the method proposed by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for achieving the ‘ best practicable environmental option ’ ( BPEO ) , in particular linking policy and psychological approaches to risk assessment with quantitative , scientific approaches .
29 We went to see Antigone in Greek but although we were well primed beforehand you ca n't follow it without a crib .
30 It may be harmless enough if mail-order suppliers of gardening sundries sell their mailing lists to publishers of gardening encyclopaedias — it is perhaps more questionable if access to share registers of companies is used to circulate shareholders with party-political propaganda about privatisation or nationalisation .
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