Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One is thus able to find companies which have a separate computer-based system for each of the three main activities .
2 First , it contains provisions which amend the substantive law of the CSA 1985 .
3 It is simply demand and supply pressures which determine the appropriate exchange rate for each currency .
4 A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding .
5 The Kingman Report emphasised the need for such abilities when it stated : ‘ A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding …
6 But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt .
7 The reason why Lieberson is doubtful about the control variable approach is the selectivity processes are probably operating within the control variables themselves and involve factors which affect the dependent variable but in unmeasured ways .
8 No observation that he makes is more bitter than his lament for ‘ the silence of God ’ and he uses metaphors which have a Biblical quality like his terrible description of the laughter of angels , which could be one of the darker Revelations of St John .
9 As these will stop in 1998 , developers are favouring projects which give a rapid return on their investments .
10 They actually are welcoming good material in various senses , and in particular , they will welcome people who have a good story , a nice item , which they 're prepared to come and record , either in the studio , or record on a Ewer somewhere on tape .
11 This is not the place to explore arguments which characterize the scientific mode of thought as in some sense masculine ( though this may have a vital role to play in our understanding of the science of our culture if it is so : see Kelly et al . ,
12 If there is a changing mood in British politics favouring moderation I suspect the Conservative Party … is about to react to it . ’
13 Colleagues have noticed mannerisms which reveal a growing obsession with how he looks — constantly playing with his hair , gazing in mirrors , fussing about his clothes .
14 In order to try to make sense of the potential multitude of factors that might be considered in valuing shares we need a theoretical framework which , although it may be ( and is ) criticized , will give the discussion and analysis a starting point .
15 Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis .
16 This award follows visits by assessors to identify and celebrate schools which play an important role in their community and have established a broad and balanced curriculum enriched from the local community and environment .
17 I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline .
18 I 'm looking to select patients who have a high pressure and a low flow and for the sake of this study I 've drawn my lines at fifty centimetres of water for detrusor pressure during voiding and , and er fifteen mils per second .
19 What other calling would employ teachers who have no professional experience of the subjects which they teach ?
20 What other calling would employ teachers who have no professional experience of the subjects they teach ?
21 It is convenient to prepare scoring sheets which include a G-banded copy of each mouse chromosome ( Figure 4 ) and to enter grain positions directly on to them .
22 Do administrations of the right pursue policies which have the opposite effects ?
23 Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body .
24 Within seconds visual behaviours are sending signals which create a favourable or an unfavourable impression .
25 The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs .
26 ‘ When we stop , tell sonar I want the exact depth . ’
27 I know booksellers who regard the written word with the utmost suspicion , profess that they do not understand it , and will have nothing to do with it ; dealers who specialise in autograph material , but will not touch books — unless , of course , they happen to be on the subject of autographs ; and many who maintain an ambivalent attitude , preferring to keep their options open and , if they can afford it , employing some eccentric especially to deal with this awkward material .
28 If we go back to the nineteen seventies or the early eighties and look at how we developed applications we take an old language like maybe COBOL as an example .
29 In feeding habits they occupy a similar role to the kites in Europe , Africa and Asia .
30 The use of these somewhat esoteric labels may obviate the difficulties of using terms which have a common and often imprecise meaning for a precise purpose — a problem which has afflicted the understanding of Hirst 's work — but it has also limited their circulation , and outside the rather enclosed world of curriculum theory , Phenix 's work is largely unknown .
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