Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possible changes would include the reporting of sensitivity analyses in league table documents or , as more economic evaluations of health care interventions are undertaken alongside controlled clinical studies , the use of confidence intervals around estimates . |
| 2 | But the welcome which we have been given here exceeds all others . |
| 3 | The group runs workshops where the women watch videos and then hold discussion groups and where they have been taught how to make simple handicrafts . |
| 4 | By far the largest proportion of XPS studies are carried out using solid samples . |
| 5 | If it is accepted that what motivates interest in redistributive impacts is a desire to be ‘ fair ’ , then the studies that are carried out using current measures of economic status may often by misleading . |
| 6 | Even in less overtly sex-segregated cultures , as researchers like Marjorie Goodwin have argued , it is still usual for children to develop their communicational skills within single sex peer groups , and if these are organised differently to do different things , the speech norms girls and boys acquire may well be different too . |
| 7 | ‘ We are gearing up to do 200 systems a month , ’ said its marketing director , Ian Collins . |
| 8 | But for some the undertow is too strong and they are sucked away to navigate unexplored tributaries of the Amazon , encounter the tribes of remotest Papua New Guinea , cross Australia by camel , or Asia by bicycle , or walk to the North Pole — alone . |
| 9 | The 1976 act had been designed not to diminish existing rights but to expand them . |
| 10 | Moreover the tendency during the present century has been to create broadly defined criminal offences ( such as theft ) , with a sufficiently generous maximum to cater for the worst contingency . |
| 11 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 12 | Ministers have warning of questions and need disclose no more information than they think fit and are obliged only to answer those matters which fall within their particular areas of responsibility . |
| 13 | Having heard T W Ltd 's further representations seeking extended hours for their haulage operations , the DLA confirmed that the conditions attaching to the licence renewal had been imposed solely to prevent local residents having their sleep disturbed at unsocial hours . |
| 14 | That being so , the vice-chancellors are acting responsibly to explore alternative sources of funding . |
| 15 | They 're do n't stay little babies any more . |
| 16 | Businessmen have been drafted in to advise civil servants . |
| 17 | The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments . |
| 18 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 19 | The figures obtained are used here to calculate three indices for the commoner species : the percentage frequency , relative abundance and contacts per hour . |
| 20 | In FE centres , National Certificate Modules make up the main part of the curriculum , whilst in schools , modules are used mainly to supplement other courses and as taster or enrichment courses . |
| 21 | Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage . |
| 22 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 23 | ‘ Merger accounting has sometimes been used artificially to boost reported earnings by including the full year 's profits of a subsidiary acquired late in the year . ’ |
| 24 | ( English is confusing here , for the same term ‘ man ’ has — until recently — been used both to encompass all humans , and specifically to speak of men . ) |
| 25 | I have been shown how to make warm clothes for myself and my children for the winter . |
| 26 | Primary infection with HIV-1 associated with seroconversion is characterised by an acute illness with variable manifestations that are thought not to include opportunistic infections other than oesophageal candidosis . |
| 27 | people are going out to see live bands again , and gigging is an important factor in establishing new acts . |
| 28 | ‘ The police have been called in to investigate 100 complaints from electors who were denied their votes … |
| 29 | One of the most admired scholars for the Review 's contributors is E. K. Chambers , and the terms in which he , and his work , are praised clearly reveal shared assumptions regarding desirable professional attributes . |
| 30 | A joint committee of the Commons and the Lords has been set up to scrutinize statutory instruments , and therefore to facilitate parliamentary review of subordinate legislation . |