Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BCS does lots of other good things , like sitting on 31 standards committees , working with 15 European computer societies to harmonise professional qualifications for the single market , accrediting computer science courses to make them less theoretical and more oriented towards projects , maintaining a register of expert witnesses , setting up ad hoc specialist groups very quickly on new areas like expert systems , natural language translation and parallel processing , and helping the disabled . |
| 2 | She wanted to arrange sole rights for the overland trade in frankincense and other goods between her country and the rich markets to the north . |
| 3 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 4 | Intended to support economic reforms over a 10-month period , the credit would be issued in four tranches . |
| 5 | To overcome this the ministries themselves were forced to create functional interest groups , such as farmers organizations , development associations and educational groups to channel political demands into the appropriate ministries . |
| 6 | There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s . |
| 7 | Consequently , it is intended to acquire inflected versions of the above collocation dictionaries and compare these with their lemmatised equivalents ( using the same text recognition data ) . |
| 8 | The Institute will continue to issue pro-forma records on an annual basis . |
| 9 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |
| 10 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 11 | It should be flexible : not in terms of changing.to meet the inputs but in terms of being broad enough to channel different inputs in the required direction . |
| 12 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 13 | Benjamin pulled me into the shadows as Mandeville came out to issue curt instructions for the dead sheriff 's body to be removed and informed the soldiers that he would stay at Templecombe for a while . |
| 14 | The 1801 provision was originally designed also to embrace ordained clergymen of the united established Church of England and Ireland . |
| 15 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 16 | But why do n't the rules stipulate that on a grey you have to wear brown breeches for the same reason ? |
| 17 | The only thing that has been co-ordinated has been monetary policy , because participating countries , most notably America , refused to include fiscal policies at the same time . |
| 18 | These characteristics help to support popular notions of the upper class as ‘ the aristocracy ‘ — landowners with titles ranked below the monarchy — or as an ‘ establishment ’ where elite individuals man ( sic ) core traditional institutions in order to effectively control the country . |
| 19 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 20 | A jetpack that allows our hero to fly , and a pair of bionic legs that give Steg the power to leap tall buildings with a single bound and super-slug speed-ups are scattered around . |
| 21 | When selecting utterances to practise these intonation patterns it may be more difficult to find complete utterances with the same overall tune , because the intonation pattern may only be carried by a segment of the utterance . |
| 22 | A section of the Education Bill prevents school library services from offering their facilities to grant maintained schools after a two year period . |
| 23 | Morphology covers the structure of words , the way in which the form of a word changes to indicate specific contrasts in the grammatical system . |
| 24 | It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population . |
| 25 | As such people may well be school governors it may be best to preface specific arguments with a brief exposition of modern developments in the teaching of history . |
| 26 | ABOUT 50,000 people packed Sofia 's Alexander Nevesky Cathedral square yesterday to demand round-table talks between the Bulgarian Government and the new opposition grouping , the Union of Democratic Forces , to solve the country 's economic and social crisis . |
| 27 | The committee has accused the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) of failing to impose adequate regulations on the bottled water industry , which at present is not obliged to maintain the same standards as the public water supply . |
| 28 | High Street giant Marks & Spencer came last in a poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 29 | Lee 's of Liverpool and other John Lewis outlets topped the poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 30 | The second reason for spelling out the approach is to highlight the limitations in current attempts to relate computational models to the actual operations of the visual system . |