Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |
| 2 | They provided the high command in wartime , bringing their own retinue to serve in the royal army , and the senior personnel for enforcing order in the countryside . |
| 3 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 4 | Within indirect taxation there were sound reasons for favouring excise over customs duties . |
| 5 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 6 | This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson . |
| 7 | A good starting point is to examine your reasons for using video in your own situation . |
| 8 | There are many reasons for undertaking research in Scottish geology . |
| 9 | There are many reasons for undertaking research in Scottish geology . |
| 10 | The enjoyment , fun , exhilaration , fitness and health we drive are all excellent reasons for sharing Medau with others . |
| 11 | The changes are about how to discipline and the reasons for requiring obedience to certain rules . |
| 12 | Well since that debate the government has taken the decision to introduce the duty into a fifth regulated sector friendly societies and a negative resolution order under the friendly societies act nineteen ninety two is also is also prop be N reasons for taking action across this wide front Madam Deputy Speaker , first and most important , the relevant provisions in the various acts are very similar and if we are to bolster the arrangements in relation to banks then we should do the same for other sectors entrusted with the public 's investments . |
| 13 | There are three main reasons for taking care of an elderly person . |
| 14 | The reasons for giving utterance to the words rather than not giving utterance to them . |
| 15 | ’ magistrates are already required to state publicly their reasons for granting bail in serious cases . |
| 16 | There are now good economic as well as social reasons for tackling discrimination against older workers . |
| 17 | The seminar also rejected a British and Dutch proposal which would have extended the study to create an international database on endangered tree species , and drawn up plans for monitoring trade in timber , including the " development of international trade controls " . |
| 18 | Now we are told by Mr Pascall that the original plans for teaching English in schools left a lot to be desired . |
| 19 | The government is to keep plans for gathering food after any attack on the country , and for distributing commodities at times of crisis . |
| 20 | Although primarily part of the government 's plans for reducing dependence on the National Health Service , the main beneficiaries will be the Woopies since it is they who can afford private health insurance in the first place . |
| 21 | It was not , therefore , surprising to find Mr Clarke somewhat exposed when facing some pressing questions on BBC Scotland about Labour 's plans for returning water to public hands at some point in the future . |
| 22 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |
| 23 | We answer three of your queries about getting hair into tip-top condition . |
| 24 | It has been standardised by the International Standards Organisation , and the National Physical Laboratory has produced a set of test programmes for checking compliance with the ISO standard . |
| 25 | • NMEA inputs for lat/long position on screen . |
| 26 | I do not think then that we can ‘ blame ’ earlier generations for believing Christianity to be true . |
| 27 | to consider proposals for securing income from the consumer other than through the licence fee . |
| 28 | a range of luminance values for evaluating shading through white to black . |
| 29 | There are three main sentence patterns for expressing condition in English . |
| 30 | But Spender makes a leap in the argument , saying : ‘ One of our fundamental rules for making sense of the … world is … that the male represents the positive while the female , necessarily then , represents the negative ’ . |