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

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1 The agency wants an end to EC beef dumping in west Africa and trade protection for cattle farmers there .
2 ( In the last 16 years of its life , turnouts for GLC elections never averaged more than 45 per cent ; in 1973 , it was 37 per cent . )
3 If you 're urging the case for tax breaks again , then I think that 's all too easy and tha that is not what I am advertising or seeking representations for .
4 He at least had the consolation of a third round loser 's cheque for £5,355 pounds almost doubling his prize money for the year and of picking up valuable ranking points .
5 With magnanimity , perhaps mindful of his own ambitious plans for prison reforms more than thirty years earlier , the Prime Minister minuted on 10 May : By all means mature your proposals .
6 NetCon provides NetWare emulation for Unix platforms so that they appear as just another NetWare server to the NetWare MS-DOS client .
7 Residential programmes for family members normally last five days and are separate from the recovery programmes for sufferers from the primary disease .
8 If the vendor is disposing of his entire business , he should deregister for VAT purposes otherwise he will continue to receive and be required to file VAT returns .
9 Many quoted approvingly the popular metonymic slogan that ‘ the sons of duke and dustman should sit side by side ’ , demonstrating a romanticism about class relations very common in Reconstruction rhetoric .
10 A weak interaction between knowledge sources necessarily gives a hierarchical flow of information from one level of description to the next , as activation proceeds bottom-up through the system .
11 Her piercing household face swam across his eyeline , even more changed from its former self than now , and hermetic in its enthusiasm for nursery objects properly researched by child psychiatrists to be fit for the middle-class children who would lose them without a pang .
12 Short blocks of study covering all classroom instruments , ensemble playing and inventing ( including experience of computers ) provide something to suit all tastes , and lay the foundations for S.C.E. courses later on .
13 There is also expected to be a wave of public support for health workers especially as hospitals like those in London face closure .
14 The governors ' responsibility for school premises likewise has implications for their special needs role .
15 To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought .
16 Tidal power systems operate by filling a single basin or river estuary at rising tide through sluice gates then emptying it during falling tide through turbines .
17 It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 .
18 The health authority , as purchaser , requires through its service contracts regular and accurate publication of waiting times for outpatient appointments so that general practitioners can take them into consideration when making a referral .
19 Outside AW 's erm , specialists books er , er , markets er , book sales have been almost universally slow there were very high returns as book sellers everywhere reacted to reduced er , demand by replacing or winding down their stock .
20 The US co-chair of the Russian-American Bilateral Commission on prisoners-of-war ( POWs ) , Malcolm Toon , said in Moscow on Sept. 21 that the US public was " getting awfully impatient " with the lack of progress in the search for US POWs allegedly missing in the former Soviet Union .
21 Container group Tiphook yesterday said it was still confident of winning its joint £643million bid for Sea Containers even though the battle has swung towards James Sherwood 's ferries-to-trailers combine .
22 In June opposition parties had boycotted parliament in protest against the government 's decision not to appoint a special tribunal to try Azam for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 war of independence [ see pp. 38967 ; 39007 ] .
23 The Women Artists Slide Library will be supporting both events in Madrid and in Graz and will be trying to participate in future talks about the development of IAWA and further opportunities for women artists generally .
24 However , other figures have been advanced ; the Pentagon 's report on ‘ friendly fire ’ incidents indicates a figure for US deaths alone of 148 .
25 On May 5 EC Development Ministers approved emergency supplementary aid for famine victims primarily in Africa [ see also p. 38855 ] of 800,000 tonnes of cereal equivalents worth ECU220,000,000 .
26 It helps capture important people interactions which could lead to bottlenecks or breakdown of the process if not managed , and is an ideal visual aid for implementation workshops currently under way at the station .
27 Furthermore , the characteristics of pill users no longer observed were similar to never users no longer observed , so comparison between contraceptive groups also remains valid .
28 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 .
29 The Association of Art Historians really should take a stand and publish minimum fees for one-off lectures . ’
30 John Hickey , 42 , of Quarry Road , Silksworth , Sunderland , will appear before a special sitting of Sunderland magistrates today charged with the murder of his estranged wife .
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