Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN RESPONSE to client requirements for competency amongst the offshore workforce [ initially for the Shell contract and more recently for Total ] , WGEC has joined the Marine & Engineering Training Association [ M&ETA ] . |
| 2 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 3 | The study was designed to determine the gastroprotective and ulcer healing efficacy of basic transforming growth factor ( bFGF ) and to assess whether this peptide contributes to the action of sucralfate on the rat stomach . |
| 4 | The ESRC has supported a cross-sectional or panel interview survey of a sample of the Great Britain electorate at every general election since 1964 . |
| 5 | David Hearn , managing director of KP Foods , UB 's European snacks division , said : ‘ Phileas Fogg is a strong UK brand , but it has lacked the financial and distribution muscle to realise its full potential . |
| 6 | Dr Mark Almond , lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College , Oxford , makes the point that the centre party , though only supported by 11 per cent of the vote , has controlled the foreign and economics ministries for the last generation . |
| 7 | However , it may be used for the following reasons : ( 1 ) The smaller company is highly active and acquisitive with motivated management and is seeking to acquire a larger but moribund target company . |
| 8 | It really does appear to illustrate the negligent and Philistine attitude of the majority of CDC councillors at the present time . |
| 9 | The SDA 's investment was made in accordance with our normal commercial criteria to help to strengthen the financial and business position of an expanding company , headquartered in Scotland , which is prepared to provide the prospect of continued growth . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock and Mr Smith , shadow Chancellor , sought to reassure the financial and business community that they would not devalue the pound . |
| 11 | In terms of legislative proposals , lobbying the assembly is more important in the United States , especially for groups wishing to exercise a negative or veto power to stop a proposal rather than have a new proposal passed . |
| 12 | The main problem lies in the amount of translation the software will have to do to read the 32 and 16-bit system calls both at the software and network level , Visionware said . |
| 13 | The event , which costs £15 per delegate , aims to tackle the social and health issues concerning dogs , including the role of the dog warden and the risks of toxicara . |
| 14 | Alternatively , make for Tower Bridge , but time is again of the essence as huge numbers of loving relatives and friends will try to do the same and space is limited . |
| 15 | While Basquiat may have reached the Metropolitan and music television , the exhibition 's tour after the Whitney run seems far less promising . |
| 16 | Having taken a brief and summary view of the history of democracy , and the opposition to it , it is time to return to the question of definition , which an historical perspective should help to clarify . |
| 17 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 18 | as part of a manufacturing or processing complex , where units of materials are stored to service the industrial or manufacturing process . |
| 19 | ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League . |
| 20 | Turman , having finished producing the entertaining but flimsy The Flim Flam Man , was now ready to embark on The Graduate with Nichols as director , and Calder Willingham writing the screenplay . |
| 21 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 22 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 23 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 24 | Kate describes their Victorian home as a ‘ scruffy , old family house that manages to withstand the rough and tumble of four children , two cats and a dog ’ . |
| 25 | For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age . |
| 26 | Her responsibilities extended to cover the creative and performing arts , communication and cultural studies , and recreation and sports studies . |
| 27 | I have friends who are magistrates and I know they feel tempted to give a fine or bail , when they should be giving a prison sentence . |
| 28 | Next on the ladder is an offence which carries a maximum of 14 years and is perpetrated where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , carries , uses or threatens to use a real or imitation weapon or threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant or is a party to the offence with any other person . |
| 29 | Interpreting in schools , colleges , courts , meetings and so on is provided by individual arrangement usually with a social worker for the deaf , though in most personal circumstances ( job interviews etc. ) deaf people say they prefer to use a relative or friend ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982b ) . |
| 30 | Giles wanted to see the judicial and revenue branches of government drawn more closely together on the Indian model . |