Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles . |
| 2 | At the time of writing solicitors are making hay with a flood of complaints about homes found to contain undisclosed faults after the buyer has moved in . |
| 3 | El País of April 19 said that Menem had thus " opened a new front for political struggle within Peronism " ; the Saadi family which for decades had wielded considerable power in Catamarca , had provided crucial support to Menem in his ascent to presidential office . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is ironic that the case of McCann was itself one of a series of cases intended to reduce sentencing levels on the part of lower courts . |
| 5 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 6 | A number of schools wanted to examine practical ways of putting their vision of Catholic education , already discussed to some extent , into practice . |
| 7 | To give voters five votes each , all of them transferable , would result in an intolerable proliferation of candidates fielded to attract those votes , utter contusion in the minds of electors and a nightmare of transferring and of counting . |
| 8 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 9 | Dec. 31 , 1996 : Deadline for decision on whether and when to move to stage three of EMU , if a majority of countries had achieved sufficient convergence of their economies ; deadline for UK to notify the EC if it intends moving to stage three of EMU . |
| 10 | A survey conducted by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce showed that 55 per cent of companies had postponed further investment decisions , while another 36 per cent were still debating what to do . |
| 11 | The urge to cash in on contemporary themes remained , however , and another small group of films attempted to dramatize these issues in a way that would avoid the pitfalls of labour films . |
| 12 | On this rendering of alienation as a state of mind the most usual form of this would be as an attitude scale consisting of a series of statements judged to express alienative feelings , and to which subjects have to respond in terms of their agreement or disagreement . |
| 13 | The asbestos-contaminated Cravens Class 105s , Gloucester Class 100s and Park Royal Class 103s were completely wiped out , while the advancing army of Sprinters began to make heavy inroads into the enormous numbers of Metro-Cammell and BR-built units . |
| 14 | Age and experience were valued in the belief that length of days had provided some guidance on how to live and what to expect in the life to come . |
| 15 | The company , which ran into big trouble after a couple of customers failed to complete big orders as expected — when the orders had already been booked as sales in the figures , says it is unlikely to be acquired because of a Sword of Damocles hanging over it in the form of outstanding class-action law suits . |
| 16 | While an earlier generation of writers had noted this feature of the period , it was not until the recent work of Cairncross that the significance of this outflow was realized . |
| 17 | This is true both of the mutual exchange of rights and obligations by the parties and of provisions intended to bind third parties . |
| 18 | However , the majority of studies did show increased adhesiveness in diabetic subjects with ( Valdorf-Hansen , 1967 ; Badawi et al , 1970 ; Hellem , 1971 ) and without ( Shaw et al , 1967 ; Hellem , 1971 ) vascular disease . |
| 19 | The number of wines produced using traditional cultivation methods is increasing and standards governing these are being introduced in several countries . |
| 20 | The effectiveness of bodies established to provide vocational training is of crucial importance at a time of both high unemployment , and , paradoxically , a shortage of skilled workers in some sectors . |
| 21 | Instead it is argued that the unusual social profile of lawbreakers did reflect social reality . |
| 22 | From the 1880s thousands of activists began to establish direct contact with workers on the factory floor and acquired detailed knowledge of workers ' conditions and grievances . |
| 23 | Informal assessment is costly in terms of staff resources and no evidence is yet available on the consistency of decisions made using informal assessment . |
| 24 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 25 | In 1756 the Museum was compiling records of its acquisitions in bound ledgers called ‘ The Book of Presents ’ and in 1836 the then single Department of Antiquities began to complete bound Acquisition Registers of a type still in use today ( fig. 10.1 ) . |
| 26 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 27 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 28 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 29 | Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits . |
| 30 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |