Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the notion of a local tax as a payment for services rendered , it is n't . |
| 2 | Though theoretically any discharger is subject to the scrutiny of field men , enforcement activity is focused further and patterned to reflect a variety of assumptions held by agency staff about the likely location of pollution . |
| 3 | A number of seminars on a variety of topics have been arranged during the year . |
| 4 | Like birds , fish produce a variety of calls to attract a mate . |
| 5 | In Denmark a variety of projects have been set up to deal specifically with the introduction of electronic data processing known as DUE ( an acronym for the Danish translation of Democracy Development and EDP ) . |
| 6 | Commercial packages to display and construct geological models were assessed , and a workshop on three-dimensional geological modelling , held at Keyworth , brought together a variety of groups dealing with different aspects of the problem . |
| 7 | The children then have to evaluate the information they have , and they should be able to use a variety of criteria to judge the truth , relevance and status of the information they find . |
| 8 | The case law subsequent to Ridge v. Baldwin has used a variety of criteria to determine whether natural justice should be applied . |
| 9 | A variety of positions exist ranging from free market , through welfare pluralist ( in which a mix of state , voluntary , market and family forms of provision coexist ) , welfare corporatist ( in which trade unions and employers would have more say in the planning of welfare ) , to alternative social planning ( in which social services would be deprofessionalised and democratised ) . |
| 10 | Barron and Baron ( 1977 ) had children of a variety of ages compare a word with a picture to make either a rhyming decision or a meaning decision . |
| 11 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 12 | SAMH will manage the facility , which will provide 80 places to train people in a variety of skills ranging from desktop publishing to retail distribution , in an attempt to restore the independence of former mental patients . |
| 13 | two pages of exercises offering a variety of skills work |
| 14 | He reviews the problems of internal dating , of intraregional correlation , of regional delimitation and of causation against the background of detailed results from a variety of areas proceeding towards a challenging opportunity to examine the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems . |
| 15 | Rather , it evolved in fits and starts as its various components were deployed in a variety of areas producing what quickly became classic studies and the base line for a growing corpus of social research findings . |
| 16 | It created a variety of services to support the basic structure of primary and secondary education , e.g. transport , free milk , medical and dental treatment . |
| 17 | The government has resorted to a variety of expedients to deal with teacher shortages . |
| 18 | In sum , a variety of processes contribute to the insulation of the Pakistani immigrant community in Rochdale . |
| 19 | It seems that the teacher can not do much more than demonstrate applied knowledge and nursing skills , applied personal resources , and the skills required in modifying and adapting a variety of procedures to meet particular contingencies . |
| 20 | Based on it management then devises a variety of systems to ensure that , from the employee 's standpoint , the top brass ‘ puts its money where its mouth is . ’ |
| 21 | When the performance of jungle-born and laboratory-reared monkeys was compared on a variety of tasks requiring a wide range of cognitive abilities , the wise monkeys were superior in every test . |
| 22 | A variety of tasks looking at decimal place value was used , including for comparison purposes , both those in context where decimals represent measures and , those not in context . |
| 23 | The concern about declining councillor calibre embodies a bitter lament that a variety of changes have conspired to result in a situation in which there is now a less close and direct relationship between economic power , social status , and the political control of local government than was once the case in the Victorian age when local government enjoyed the leadership of businessmen and local notables . |
| 24 | THE STANDARD reggae format : one tough rhythm — particularly so in this case — and a variety of stars laid end-to-end over the top . |
| 25 | The search aids include a search save process and a multiple database/system regeneration and repeat facility , an automated search technique developed from natural-language phrases via stemming and Boolean AND operation to automatically give a variety of searches based on the original phrase , aids to searching a number of individual databases , and a facility for automatic database selection . |
| 26 | This is due to a variety of circumstances ranging from accessibility and remoteness of locations and their suitability for women to local legislation in some countries which prohibits the employment of women either completely or in certain types of jobs . |
| 27 | However , as the preceding section shows , a variety of circumstances determine an individual 's vulnerability to certain hazards in the environment , and result in individuality in the way necessary preventive activities are carried out . |
| 28 | He was anxious about travelling , and worried that he might miss his train or enter by accident the wrong one : this was a fear that seems to have lingered since his youth when , as he said , " I found a variety of calamities to worry about . |
| 29 | There are a variety of exercises to check understanding at the back of each book and all the readers contain a picture dictionary , illustrating the words that appear in the stories . |
| 30 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |