Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as camouflage is used by both sides in the contests between hunters and hunted , so is the technique of baiting . |
| 2 | He believes that older people should be given the opportunity to participate in civic activities during retirement and argues for : |
| 3 | Securing the suppression of the foreign slave trade might be achieved in part in wartime by naval power but otherwise was mainly seen as requiring lobbying of and consultation with ministers , communicating with British diplomats and naval commanders for information and to provide stimulus to intervention in particular cases and pressing arguments upon foreign leaders , particularly during the Congress phase of European diplomacy in the years following the defeat of Napoleon . |
| 4 | Regulatory agencies in America have been required , as a result , not just to involve others in the decision-making process but to take a ‘ hard look ’ at all the relevant issues and alternatives , including abandoning a project , to give reasons for decisions and to make continuous disclosure of the facts and assumptions which it relies on in promulgating a rule . |
| 5 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 6 | The reasons for refusal as set out in Wyre Borough Council Minutes dated 14/11/91 page 65 are equally applicable to the present application . |
| 7 | Scathach slung canvases between trees that surged and shuddered . |
| 8 | In addition , museum assistants or other personnel whose task it is to prepare the objects for visitors and to supervise their access to the collections may have more time for other tasks . |
| 9 | Cereals at breakfast , mince and vegetables for lunch and fish every Friday . |
| 10 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 11 | An important boost for this theory carne in 1973 when experiments at CERN discovered the so-called neutral currents : weak interactions between particles that occur via the exchange of something neutral , in other words the Zo . |
| 12 | There will be two sittings for tea and to avoid chaos we must ensure that everyone goes to tea at their allotted time . |
| 13 | My wife read an article in the hairdressers about Taxol and told me about it . |
| 14 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 15 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 16 | Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale . |
| 17 | Baldwin knew of the development of Chamberlain 's view , and made the major mistake in the circumstances of proceeding with his plans for France and leaving Chamberlain in charge in London . |
| 18 | We are here to encourage any firm with plans for expansion or to increase their market share . ’ |
| 19 | Large corporations draw up ground plans for restaurants and reduce everything down to a level of mediocrity . |
| 20 | By studying a range of compounds of known structure , it is sometimes possible to define characteristic M-X stretching frequencies for terminal and bridging ligands , and to use the observed spectrum of a new compound to establish the presence or absence of bridging ligands . |
| 21 | Radical measures , including the limited introduction of part-time and job-sharing ministers and the sale of unnecessary church buildings , are recommended in the report to stem a tide of mergers between congregations and to allow smaller parishes to continue to exist . |
| 22 | In this report , we have used the deoP2 promoter to investigate the importance of CytR-DNA interactions for repression and to identify the DNA sequence motif recognized by CytR . |
| 23 | Some of these rituals draw upon the creative work of Jewish feminist ritualists who are reclaiming traditional practices , like the monthly ritual bath and the new moon celebration , as distinctive and positive rituals for women that celebrate female bodily processes . |
| 24 | As time goes by , the mother seems to become a little blase about these shrieks for attention and lets the still enthusiastic young females fuss over the infant . |
| 25 | This sector also includes outworkers for manufacturing and repair operations , who sub-contract work to do in their own homes or small workshops such as shoe manufacturers ( Peattie 1982 ) ; beggars who are often more organised than they appear ( Ruiz-Perez 1979 ) ; prostitutes ; garbage pickers who can sell various types of waste paper , refuse and bottles ; the living-in domestic servants paid low wages and provided with board and lodging who , according to Lloyd , constitute a category which is included within the informal sector by default ( Lloyd 1982 ) , and others who work on some sort of irregular basis . |
| 26 | The two Cabinets had met jointly in San'aa on Jan. 20-22 and in Aden on March 21 , while impetus was also given by the opening of the border [ see p. 37266 ] , by meetings between Saleh and al-Bid in Ta'izz on March 8 and in Aden on May 1 , and between the respective Prime Ministers in San'aa on May 1-4 , and by progress made in joint committees at ministerial level . |
| 27 | Conciliation commission meetings between Moldovan and Dnestr representatives had little success , however , with the Dnestr parliament on June 17 rejecting proposals on implementing a ceasefire ( which had been supported by the Moldovan parliament on June 9 ) . |
| 28 | The question was whether , when a pagan government forbade Christian meetings for worship and required the surrender of Bibles and vessels and vestments , any kind of compromise was morally possible . |
| 29 | ‘ By holding open meetings for children and having the telecottage above the local store , people of all walks of life came in - small-scale entrepreneurs and their spouses , shop assistants , craftspeople and children . |
| 30 | If the work of the SDPP is taken alongside that of another team on school management , the School Management Task Force ( DES 1990a ) , the benefit emerges of seeing how detailed proposals for management and review penetrate deep into the daily work of the school and how that detail can be set in the larger context of characteristics ( thirteen in number ) of effective schools ( DES 1990a : 5-6 ) , set against six management tasks which are regarded as having high priority following the 1988 Act . |