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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 That being so , the vice-chancellors are acting responsibly to explore alternative sources of funding .
9 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 .
10 The figures obtained are used here to calculate three indices for the commoner species : the percentage frequency , relative abundance and contacts per hour .
11 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 .
12 Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 ( 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 . )
15 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 .
16 The real proof , however , is the fact that both systems are running live producing weekly newspapers .
17 Since the beginning of the year new shops have opened up in central Belfast and for the first time some are doing well selling avant-garde men 's and women 's clothes .
18 Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant .
19 John Ritchie , Staff Development TVEI Co-ordinator , has now followed up the audit by inviting all schools in identify developments that should be undertaken centrally to allow these gaps to be filled .
20 Some consist of a simple bowl with a lip , over which the water trickles , while others come in sections of varying lengths and shapes which can be joined together to form complex arrangements .
21 Furthermore , any number of metal components can be joined together to make complex shapes , leading to an almost limitless variety of products .
22 The simulation routine will be developed further to facilitate comprehensive analyses of radical reforms as well as of changes in the parameters underlying the present tax/benefit system .
23 With regard to the transfer of title in stolen art work , I would like to point out that Swiss law can not , in comparison with the majority of European legal systems , be considered especially to favour illegal transactions .
24 Commissioned by the municipal Budapest Gallery , and designed by thirty year-old architect Akos Eleod , the works will be grouped thematically to represent historical eras , political figures and something called ‘ Soviet-Hungarian friendship ’ .
25 But a man may have no son , or he may have too many among whom to share his limited lands and principles had to be modified continually to meet particular circumstances .
26 This would be expected partially to offset three changes in behavioural factors which have tended to increase the number of households .
27 However given that even this partial form has been rejected , hats can not , in the broad sense , be expected therefore to support these proposals .
28 Judgement can never be excluded from the weeding process , but in recent years practitioners and researchers have sought a more reliable weeding criterion which can be applied scientifically to produce consistent results .
29 Home advantage meant that pitches could be prepared especially to suit fast bowlers , and come the first Test in Jamaica it was soon evident this is what had happened .
30 This book is a companion to Professor Barrer 's 1978 volume on Zeolites and Clay Minerals as Sorbents and Molecular Sieves ( Academic ) , and whereas the earlier work dealt with the uses of these interesting substances , this new monograph deals chiefly with the ways in which zeolites can be made synthetically using hydrothermal processes .
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