Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers . |
| 2 | In this vision of rapid warfare there was still a place for great fortresses to provide temporary protection for frontiers and strategically vital areas during the crucial , disorganized days at the beginning of the campaign while the armies were assembling . |
| 3 | Erm now , of course , we 'd wear a jersey and boots quite happily , but er I did get a grant for clothing because otherwise there was no way of goin of accepting a scholarship . |
| 4 | Canada 's selection policy came as a surprise to many observers , with changes made in the side that defeated Fiji in preparation for Romania and yet again in a winning team for the final pool game against France . |
| 5 | It did not come to his mind to murder any of them ; it was not his way , or the way he had been raised , to take life in cold blood , without a formal challenge or warning , without the necessary ritual preparation for combat and maybe death . |
| 6 | And then it 'll come up , you know , I 'll put in w er one O two is the headlines for Ceefax for instance and then the stories will be from one O three to about one one five or something like that you see . |
| 7 | They made peaces , and created a fragmented Peace ( fragile and ungoverned ) from a series of bilateral contracts between groups as well as by reciprocal threats . |
| 8 | There is an opportunity for parents as well and their course starts next Thursday . |
| 9 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 10 | OPPORTUNITY TO REPLY It is the general duty of newspapers to allow a fair opportunity for reply when reasonably called for . |
| 11 | Chen spokesman Lee DeLorme told United Press International that negotiations are continuing with the city of Eau Claire for an aid package to base the company there , but that the state 's decision has prompted Chen to look to other states for aid as well . |
| 12 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 13 | A further possibility which is suggested by Lord Denning 's judgment is that in such circumstances it may not be a case for injunction but only for damages . |
| 14 | It will host an executive panel on distributed computing that will argue the Distributed Computing Environment versus Sun Microsystems Inc 's Open Network Computing versus a COSE hybrid case for developers and presumably tackle issues such the proposed COSE-compliant Motif and whether the application programming interface will stick . |
| 15 | Most of it is preserved in some way ; it is transported and various methods are employed to change and enhance its appearance ; it may be prepared or pre-cooked for convenience and finally aesthetically packaged for maximum appeal . |
| 16 | Sail to Esna where you will visit the Temple of Esna before passing through the lock of Esna and sailing on to Luxor for dinner and overnight . |
| 17 | All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys . |
| 18 | In one extreme case the Newcastle prescribing index increased the practice relation to the family health services authority average by 50% for cost and yet decreased the relation for items by 1% ( fig 3 ) . |
| 19 | English Nature , the government 's adviser on nature conservation , has submitted 18 new areas to the Ministry of Agriculture for designation as Environmentally Sensitive Areas ( ESAs ) . |
| 20 | The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence . |
| 21 | I resolved to explain the situation to them as briefly as possible , make a plea for money and then very rapidly leave . |
| 22 | If women enjoy low status they may need sons for prestige as well as protection . |
| 23 | ADAM & EVE allows you to create your own ‘ user database ’ of collocations for texts and then generate exercises on these . |
| 24 | Apart from cartoons aimed at entertaining children , they are also used in educational programmes for children and sometimes for adults and they frequently feature in advertisements . |
| 25 | Over a million WG shares , issued to the Carrs in 1988 as part payment for Alkar and subsequently frozen by injunction , have been sold and the proceeds , approximately £600,000 , remitted to WG . |
| 26 | There is an analogy here with working-class culture , black and white , where masculinity has also been a source of resistance , but once again at the expense of ratifying a larger exploitative framework for men as well as women . |
| 27 | In June 1940 , Britain was digging in , expecting a grim struggle for existence and feverishly improvising every weapon of defence against the possible invader . |
| 28 | Even such curious things as the trajectory of a crow 's wing were photographed before the end of the century , while photography through telescopes and then microscopes proved invaluable in astronomy and in biology . |
| 29 | And the war , rather than being the product of imperialism , arose from an infinitely complex interaction between European and indeed world developments . |
| 30 | This is a forceful attack on not only the idea of literature as communication but also on the idea of communication itself . |