Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Price alterations to tickets are often found , in some instances this has been done twice , perhaps due to fare increases during World War I and subsequent reductions afterwards . |
| 2 | Given their virtually unlimited powers to dictate what a dissenting group may or may not be allowed to do , there is a danger that police will prove less willing to negotiate arrangements with protest organisers , preferring to impose conditions as the law allows . |
| 3 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 4 | At other times , however , the media are only able to report snippets of information , incomplete fragments of a complex situation . |
| 5 | You are only able to install/deinstall modules of type pmodel . |
| 6 | The office was established because court staff found it extremely time-consuming to assist litigants in person with processing a claim , and , in particular , with providing help with summonses . |
| 7 | Keynes was concerned with producing a theory which was sufficiently general to embrace states of unemployment as well as full employment . |
| 8 | Clinicians are primarily interested in clinical issues and , therefore , are less inclined to address questions of health planning , quality assurance , health services research , and health policy . |
| 9 | This brief survey reveals some of the difficulties of establishing that shareholders are morally entitled to control companies by virtue of their legal property rights , and hence of attempting to legitimate corporate power by reference to those rights . |
| 10 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 11 | I think any student going through higher education is getting something from it if they come in as some measure sceptical , in some measure critical , that they 're not prepared to take things at face value . |
| 12 | The Department pledges its support to staff who work within the spirit of the Guidelines set out in this document , and will make it clear that as a Department we are not prepared to accept threats of intimidation and violence from that small number of clients who use such methods to manipulate their social environment or evade responsibility for their behaviour . |
| 13 | An alternative , which operated in the UK from 1925 — 31 , is that the central bank is not prepared to convert banknotes into gold for domestic residents but is willing to convert such paper into gold for foreigners . |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously it is not acceptable to have cigarettes for sale on the trolley service and the Ladies Committee has been asked to remove them , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 16 | May I make the point to Les , and it 's true , it is not illegal to do things without planning permission |
| 17 | This is the teacher-as-social-worker : providing emotional support , attending case conferences , subject to physical and verbal assaults , on the lookout for signs of physical and sexual abuse , no longer able to assume standards of behaviour — and , as if incidentally , also intended to teach , with the upheaval of a new curriculum and its accompanying paperwork . |
| 18 | People who understand that the separation of church and state in the majority community is a prerequisite of religious freedom , are nevertheless happy to override principles of equality and human rights in minority communities by handing their political control over to religious leaders . |
| 19 | As beef farmers , they are not able to get grants to setaside their land.The racing is an alternative way of making money . |
| 20 | Since we are generally concerned to detect deviations from average , it can be useful to show the row and column averages where these make sense . |
| 21 | Despite the noise and the modern dress of the customers , it was not difficult to imagine men with clay pipes sitting around the hearth of The Black Dog on windy , wet nights . |
| 22 | It is not necessary to book seats in advance but we would ask you to be in the McEwan Hall not later than 10.20 am . |
| 23 | If interest payments are waived , the society is not obliged to pay arrears of interest in future years . |
| 24 | I always think it is not wise to name drugs on television . ’ |
| 25 | Seventy Mothers ' Clubs distributed 2,000 questionnaires , which showed that the average worker in that part of São Paulo earned one and a half minimum salaries , which was not sufficient to cover costs of food , rent , mortgage of land payments , clothing , transport , medicine , school equipment , electricity and water for their families . |
| 26 | Whole-class teaching , usually seen as the device most likely to keep children on task , may well reduce distraction ( or at least distraction of an undisguised kind ) but it may also increase the time children spend awaiting attention , and indeed our own figures on group sizes tend to confirm this . |
| 27 | In the later years of the eighteenth century it was still usual to build factories near water ; the iron industry was similarly dispersed in a series of villages . |
| 28 | It is always possible to raise questions concerning religion at a later stage , but , as a general rule , it is probably always safer ( assuming one has the time ) to ask the more general questions first , and see if specific answers come up . |
| 29 | Is it still possible to shock audiences at dance performances ? |
| 30 | Peter Ashman , legal secretary of Justice , said : ‘ The profession is more willing to admit miscarriages of justice than it once was . |