Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the test samples are less stable than the controls , interpretation is less easy since such samples may , nevertheless , be stable under the conditions of the market . |
| 2 | At levels 9 and 10 , the activities themselves will not differ significantly in kind , but pupils will require teaching which helps them to act with increasing confidence and fluency , to take a leading role in discussions , to be supportive of the contributions of others , to prepare presentations effectively ( including the use of audiovisual aids and handouts ) , to be rigorous in argument and the use of evidence , and to take effective account of audience and context . |
| 3 | The Corporation expressed their satisfaction with the endowment and their conviction that it would be ample for the purposes of the School . |
| 4 | ‘ We could never be respectable in the eyes of the world , ’ said Jean , ‘ but that hardly matters . ’ |
| 5 | The therapist should be alert to the possibilities of a patient losing all hope . |
| 6 | We should be alert for the side-effects of critical doubt . |
| 7 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 8 | RM1 's use of a general corpus could even cause the correct words in a particular utterance to be depressed below the scores of competing homophonic phrases . |
| 9 | In the initial post-operative period patients may be drowsy from the effects of anaesthesia or analgesia . |
| 10 | The third and perhaps chief problem related to general degrees is their status , which tends to be lower in the eyes of academics , and perhaps employers , than their academic or professional counterparts . |
| 11 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 12 | It covers as much ground as must be possible within the covers of a manageable book . |
| 13 | If the Front-Bench spokesmen and those who are called before 7 o'clock exercise discretion , it may be possible in the interests of the whole House to relax that limit . |
| 14 | He must only be alive between the covers of a book , and not anywhere else . |
| 15 | It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies . |
| 16 | Many of the cases of torsades de pointes reported during procainamide therapy may be due to the actions of its active metabolite , N-acetylprocainamide , which often accumulates in patients with renal disease . |
| 17 | The lower incomes may be due to the types of jobs available in country locations or to lower wages being paid in rural areas compared to urban areas for the same jobs . |
| 18 | Without ( for example ) a grasp of what the Bible teaches about human nature he will soon be speechless before the claims of twentieth-century humanity . |
| 19 | They should be encouraged to express their opinions and argue a point of view , to be receptive to the contributions of others and be helped to make their own contributions confidently and effectively . |
| 20 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 21 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 22 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
| 23 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
| 24 | There are also many active individual members , deeply dissatisfied with the record of recent Labour Cabinets , who are determined to ensure that any future Labour Government shall carry out socialist policies and be responsive to the views of active party members . |
| 25 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 26 | It is er er the police auth authorities are would not be robust to changes of government , they would not be responsive to the leads of local people as expressed through their elected members and the er the Government 's proposals are inadequate as a final remind the Committee that at second reading thirty f er five out of thirty seven speakers spoke against largely against th the tenor of the Bill with er er wi with with various reservations o of all kinds . |
| 27 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
| 28 | Tendring District Council wants to be responsive to the needs of residents and to work in partnership with them . |
| 29 | The audit review panel would be completely independent of the directors and would have responsibility for the supervision of the assessment process on behalf of the shareholders and be responsive to the needs of other stakeholders . |
| 30 | Can the Minister confirm that health boards have been issued with new instructions , both written and by meetings , to be responsive to the needs of private contractors ? |