Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are modified to transmit electric impulses and are linked into a network which amounts to a primitive nervous system ; others are able to contract in length and so can be considered as simple muscles . |
| 2 | Some are designed to update existing qualifications and knowledge , so assume previous knowledge of the subject . |
| 3 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 4 | All three bodies provided support during this period for pioneering WEA activity over relatively short periods , usually for three years , although some were renewed to sustain encouraging developments . |
| 5 | The scale of expenditure on all aspects of local government , and the greatly increased proportion of total public expenditure which it represented , meant that , when the crisis came , some were led to blame local authorities , and in the cuts that followed inner cities inevitably suffered most acutely . |
| 6 | In all cases , probability values less than 0.05 were taken to indicate significant differences . |
| 7 | A common denominator both of these critiques and of positivism and natural law theories , is that most of them speak about the law — even if this is seen to have many facets . |
| 8 | This is bound to have competitive implications for the UK banking sector , which is already heavily rationalized and has therefore little scope for gaining further economies of scale . |
| 9 | Washington sent ‘ a very strong statement ’ that made it clear that ‘ this is going to affect bilateral relations very negatively . ’ |
| 10 | This is going to require Ministerial decisions . ’ |
| 11 | This is designed to show month-to-month changes in average prices of goods and services purchased by households . |
| 12 | This is designed to evoke chilling reminders of men , women , and children huddled in ghastly expectation ; dying in pogroms and concentration camps . |
| 13 | Although the profit per contract is small , because riskless profits are available , a very large volume of transactions will be initiated , and this is claimed to destabilize financial markets ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 14 | Novell Inc will push back delivery of the beta version of NetWare 4.0 until September , according to prospective beta testers that have spoken to Microbytes Daily : at least two potential beta testers were told by sales reps that the 4.0 beta version , originally due last week , will be delayed while Novell improves the software 's interface and ramps up staffing on the 4.0 support hot lines ; also , one of the crucial issues Novell has yet to resolve is how easily network administrators will be able to migrate from their existing versions ; 4.0 is expected to include major enhancements to the operating system 's administration services , including audit trails for all file activity and a new retrieve-based user directory . |
| 15 | This was done using British Telecommunications Plc 's Phonebase system to access the directory enquiries database . |
| 16 | Cambridge ink-jet printer maker Domino Printing Sciences Plc told the annual meeting yesterday that despite the strong finish to 1992 , first quarter trading has been below expectations and this was bound to affect interim results : in particular , sales in the US were unexpectedly slow during the first three months coinciding with the change of administration , it said . |
| 17 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 18 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 19 | Infectious ecotropic Bcl-2/PURO virus was prepared from culture supernatants of E cells , transfected with the Bcl-2/PURO vector and this was used to infect Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells . |
| 20 | I observed that this policy was repeated last Sunday and No 75069 was rostered to haul four coaches from Aberystwyth to Machynlleth , with a scheduled departure time of 18.10 . |
| 21 | I very much doubt , though it is unnecessary for me to decide the point , that the use of the plural in paragraph 12 was intended to connote different defendants in several different unconsolidated actions , since there was only one single action in being in the Kalfelis case , and paragraph 13 ( not quoted above ) would seem to envisage a claim by the same plaintiff , unlike the present litigation where there are a very large number of different plaintiff banks in different actions . |
| 22 | They were the first state concerns to be given this go-ahead since July 1989 , although private companies had from January 1991 been allowed to make direct payments of foreign commercial debt . |
| 23 | The possibility of obtaining loans from the Phnom Penh museum was then followed up by the curator in Asian art at the ANG , Doctor Michael Brand : ‘ Normally it would have been the ANG 's desire to have more time , but 1992 was chosen because the Japanese were trying to borrow some objects for a show to be held in 1993 . |
| 24 | An agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on May 10 was expected to release new credits and to create conditions for the rescheduling of the US$50,000 million debt [ see p. 37222 ] . |
| 25 | After the defeat at Flodden every Scottish Borderer with land above the value of 100 was ordered to build such towers and enclosures to safeguard tenants , workers and livestock . |
| 26 | A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further . |
| 27 | Our first observation must be that to a gratifying extent the numerous anomalies in constituency results cancel themselves out when these are aggregated to give national totals of votes received and seats won by each party . |
| 28 | These are used to access other sheets , to move them around and also to name them . |
| 29 | None of these are confined to single unique regions of the car . |
| 30 | These were used to draw young nationalists into the work of the Party . |