Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded . |
| 2 | Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity . |
| 3 | Now expectations model implies that the revision in expectations , right , year on year alright , is proportional right , to the error last year , right , the difference between actual and forecasted last year right , if they were way out if their forecast was way out for last year , right , they 'll revise their expectations for , for the next year okay . |
| 4 | A trading company may have the general objective of surviving and making good deals . |
| 5 | Gen. Prosper Avril , who had seized power in a military coup in September 1988 [ see pp. 36281-82 ] , resigned as President of Haiti on March 10 , after a period of prolonged and intensifying popular opposition to his government . |
| 6 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 7 | The Finest range of reinforced and foil surfaced Vapour Barriers and Breather Membranes , coupled with Monobon Vapour Barrier Sealant , produce a vapour proofing system , that is SETTING NEW STANDARDS in Industrial , Commercial and Public Sector roofing . |
| 8 | A reconciliation of actual and forecast net expenses is included as Appendix B. |
| 9 | NBThis information , attached as Appendix A and a reconciliation of actual and forecast net expenses attached as Appendix B , is provided under the terms of the confidentiality agreement and disclaimer of responsibility set out in the Information memorandum . |
| 10 | Owing to the fact that most of his time was spent working on a vast selection of crashed and captured German aircraft , he got to know ( and love ) them quite well . |
| 11 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 12 | As such they must be accounted a certain independence ( of both the whole group of pavements with interlaced squares and of the more general group of diagonal and rotated linear designs to which this belongs ) . |
| 13 | SEPA 'S role was originally seen as a clearing house for exchanging ideas and information about science curriculum development and as a means of supporting and strengthening national bodies in member states in their efforts towards improving the learning of science , but under effective direction , it has extended its interest and influence further towards interest in evaluation , child development and the relationship between the materials and approaches developed in science and the evolution of the primary curriculum as a whole . |
| 14 | Review curricula of existing courses relevant to Engineers and Risk Issues in the light of current and changing future needs . |
| 15 | In painting public outings in parks , café-concerts , and common prostitutes instead of great and idealized historical figures , Manet , Seurat , and others were painting , no longer the ordered , but the contingent . |
| 16 | The Ellis Park row had plunged the future of the Wallaby tour into grave doubt and for French it signalled the possible heartbreaking end to four years of endless and dedicated hard work to have rugby sanctions against South Africa lifted . |
| 17 | Serotec has developed a new range of unlabelled and conjugated monoclonal antibodies . |
| 18 | Human rights education is a means of stimulating and increasing this awareness . |
| 19 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | The Efficiency Unit in its main aim of encouraging and assisting individual departments to make their top management systems effective . |
| 21 | John Wark , vice president of marketing , believes the future of the market lies in the merging of relational and object oriented techniques : ‘ the move from relational to object oriented would be more of a sideways move than from hierarchical to relational . |
| 22 | Those that get on well with others always do a lot of smiling and find positive things to say . |
| 23 | The three categories of passive , aggressive and assertive behaviour are a useful way of differentiating and describing interpersonal communication styles . |
| 24 | LGC is looking at its existing services such as analysis of food , of food packaging , asbestos etc , and seeking ways of developing and promoting these services in wider markets . |
| 25 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 26 | The imagery of the ‘ black bomber , used in Handsworth was extended to the notion that there were groups of alienated and criminalized young blacks who saw the riots as a chance to engage in an ‘ orgy of looting ’ . |
| 27 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 28 | No secret was made of the fact that the government bureaucracy was guided in everything it did by the CPSU bureaucracy , the Secretariat : ‘ The CPSU , and particularly its full time staff , monopolizes the processes of generating and controlling political power in the USSR , transmitting its binding decisions to elites in state and public organizations through its territorial party committees and primary organizations ’ ( Barghoorn and Remington , 1986 , p. 305 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 30 | Now in a Paris suburb , most of the church has been restored or rebuilt , but part of the original choir exists , while the reconstructed west front still shows the early mixture of round and pointed arch heads . |