Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is meant by class and ethnic reductionism and essentialism is illustrated here by Rex 's assumption of deterministic and invariable cultural patterns producing inevitable individual responses . |
| 2 | New EEC rules change light dues |
| 3 | Another method of subordination is a prohibition on repayment of the debt whilst other creditors remain unpaid . |
| 4 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 5 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 6 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 7 | He wants to make it easier for Government Departments to carry out projects using private investors and the commercial banks . |
| 8 | The revenue from the tax , currently around £1.2 billion per year , is intended to subsidize projects using alternative fuel sources , but at the moment more than 90 per cent goes to the nuclear industry ( which is why the tax is often called the " nuclear levy " ) . |
| 9 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 10 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 11 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 12 | Prestigious scholarly and popular series are being continued , German Expressionists , Picasso and the art of the Middle Ages remain safe favourites . |
| 13 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 14 | The two comets are entirely ablated , whereas the stony objects lose most of their kinetic energy to deceleration , not ablation . |
| 15 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 16 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 17 | It is of particular relevance in the construction of chain-linked index numbers where the comparison is made as a sequence of year-to-year ( or month-to-month , etc. ) indices using either of the index numbers described . |
| 18 | The framework in which political scientists usually consider these aspects of politics , employing the notions of ‘ political culture ’ and ‘ political socialization ’ , is too narrow to encompass all the relevant phenomena , and it is more fruitful , I think , to start from the conception of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ ( Bourdieu and Passeron , 1977 ) , which has the great merit of emphasizing that the ideas and values shaping political action are not necessarily expressed in an overtly political form , and of relating such ideas and values to the whole social structure . |
| 19 | In the circular helix not only their ratio but also their actual values remain unchanged along the entire curve ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock is uninterested in finding a visionary ‘ big idea ’ for the party ; he is convinced that Labour 's values remain popular . |
| 21 | Having learnt to sail in a sail boat like the Topper you can move on to more complex boats with confidence or continue to exploit the versatility and convenience of this single-hander which has become the best selling sail boat in Britain the one design nature of the Topper , due to its injection moulded hull , is perfect for racing and secondhand values remain high . |
| 22 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |
| 23 | His great shoulders shook and his teeth gleamed white against a dark red beard . |
| 24 | The boy laughed as if he knew something Gina did not , and his teeth gleamed white in the dark hallway . |
| 25 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 26 | This practice of employing deputies made possible bureaucratic pluralism . |
| 27 | In both cases it 's a good story and photo ; but in both cases make sure your candidate is properly equipped and safely escorted . |
| 28 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 29 | Even in the darkness Owen could see the boy 's teeth flash white in a big grin . |
| 30 | In villages , educational workers would drag women out of their houses to attend mass literacy classes , in others the cadres of the party kidnapped the wife of the mullah on the grounds that , wherever she went , other women would follow . |