Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 2 | For instance , only 1–2 krads are need to clean up a sample using an accelerator producing 10¹5- ; 10¹8 ; rad s&sup-1 ; , but at 10&sup4 ; –10&sup5 ; rad s&sup-1 ; a higher dose is required . |
| 3 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
| 4 | Attempts are continuing to set up a rescue package for a travel firm which collapsed , putting the holidays of hundreds of customers in doubt . |
| 5 | According to press reports , the experts are trying to work out a compromise solution under which the Danube 's water would be divided between the old river bed and the new canal . |
| 6 | But creditors are threatening to wind up the business unless six figure debts are paid . |
| 7 | Researchers are trying to sort out the difference in genetic make-up both in cancers and in normal tissue . |
| 8 | As home-brewing returns , some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition . |
| 9 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 10 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 11 | But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces . |
| 12 | As the mechanics , now dubbed dismantlers , get to work their eyes are primed to search out every tiny component which could be used again or recycled into something else . |
| 13 | This concept is in keeping with the observations from the remedy provings , since the low potencies produce mainly physical symptoms , and the high potencies are required to bring out the full mental symptomatology . |
| 14 | They are required to think about the new language and with guidance are helped to work out the rules of grammar for themselves . |
| 15 | Angry students at Margaret Thatcher 's old Oxford college are threatening to sue over a decision to admit men . |
| 16 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 17 | Andrew Lees , campaigns director of FoE , said : " While the public has a right to know about what companies are allowed to put down the sewers , the details of their actual discharges are kept secret " . |
| 18 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 19 | In parallel the three Managing Directors are starting to sort out the detailed issues connected with the new structure . |
| 20 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |
| 21 | We term this the level of computer architecture , at which a set of logically integrated hardware functions are programmed to carry out the processing of data . |
| 22 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 23 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 24 | What has emerged from the studies examined in this paper is that workers are forced to take up an unsophisticated dependent position in the social organization of their enterprise . |
| 25 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 26 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 27 | The banks are expected to take up an investment stance which is not their true role . |
| 28 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 29 | Now President de Klerk and the ANC leadership are trying to tone down the outcome of the talks in order not to appear to have pre-empted a decision before the others have had a chance to have their say . |
| 30 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |