Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 2 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 3 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 4 | Lieberman ( 1963 ) , for example , found that speakers pronounce words less clearly when they are more predictable from their linguistic or pragmatic contexts . |
| 5 | Orton switched things around so that it was much more Ken 's vehicle , as Williams said , ‘ He did , suddenly , get fired with the idea of writing a zonking great part for me . ’ |
| 6 | An electoral chain of command pushes orders up so that the people control things at the same time as those in authority are responsible down to the people or to the government of the people . |
| 7 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 8 | ‘ Electronically controlled gas springs bring benefits both on and off the road ’ |
| 9 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 10 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
| 11 | Most countries accept dollars as readily as their own currency . |
| 12 | These protect the timber from insects and rots but they also help to account for the high cost of working the best tropical woods because the silica blunts tools very quickly and the splinters of greenheart are poisonous . |
| 13 | The Commercial Division will have to demonstrate strong commercial performance by winning new business , particularly overseas and in the UK private sector reducing costs still further and abandoning unpromising work . |
| 14 | But a massive security campaign pushed militants deeper underground and until today appeared to have stopped attacks on foreigners . |
| 15 | Clearly , all flats located in the northern part of the building enjoy views both up and down the river , because the building is located in a concave curve of the Thames . |
| 16 | the need to plan operations as efficiently as possible for a given level of resources ( or budgeted level of income if a statutory authority is expected to largely generate its own income ) ; |
| 17 | By the 1650s those to and from all foreign diplomats in London were being opened and copied in the Post Office ; and in 1665 the French ambassador acknowledged that the English " have tricks to open letters more skilfully than anywhere in the world " . |
| 18 | These consist of : ( i ) a direct dealing relationship with the Bank of England ; ( ii ) borrowing facilities at the Bank ; ( iii ) access to IDBs ; ( iv ) facilities for borrowing and lending stock ; and ( v ) the right to submit bids slightly later than others at auctions of new government stock . |
| 19 | Maybe it had some reality in sales transactions of other times , when buyers took goods away then and there or a day later . |
| 20 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 21 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 22 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 23 | In Bursa , Seyh Mehmed-i Cezeri and Semseddin Fenari and Molla Yegane [ sic ] and his son Yusuf Bali and Bahaeddin Omer and Yar-Ali-i Sirazi and Hoca-zade and Husam-zade and Ali Celebi and Mufti Ahmed Pasa gave fetvas as far as the year 929 [ 1552–3 ] ; in Edirne , Molla Haydar-i Acemi and the aforementioned Molla Fahreddin and Molla Abdulkerim and Umm Veled [ gave fetvas ] ; and Molla Gurani and Molla Ali-i Arab , and [ Ali ] Cemali became independent muftis in Istanbul … |
| 24 | Cynically one might observe that the articulate have seized the opportunity to use schools more politically than ever before , disadvantaging still further the already disadvantaged . |
| 25 | Statistically significant differences were found in choice of topical application between doctors and nurses ( p<0.001 ) : DNs were usually responsible for the selection of paste bandages , unmedicated tulles and simple dry dressings , but doctors made the decision to use antibiotics/cortisones more often than nurses . |
| 26 | The EOC also found direct discrimination when managers treated women less favourably than men by making unfounded assumptions about their ability to be mobile . |
| 27 | Plus European markets are subsidizing their farmers to grow crops more cheaply than Third World producers possibly can . |
| 28 | Except in very small primary schools , head teachers , deputies and chairs of governors welcomed the increased management responsibility and made genuine efforts to manage resources more efficiently and effectively . |
| 29 | Firms sent workers home early and schools kept pupils in class . |
| 30 | International waste management company Attwoods pushed profits ahead more than 11 per cent in the six months to January after a good performance from key sectors of its US business . |