Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , local authorities have a local appeals procedure under which officers may appeal if they are dissatisfied with the authority 's decision as to whether it is necessary to move home or if they are dissatisfied with any of the authority 's decisions in relation to the application of the relocation provisions . |
| 2 | On the whole , these informal practices are conducive to the management 's organizational goals rather than a departure from them . |
| 3 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 4 | The main areas of restriction are due to the machine 's inability or difficulty in coping with very large calculations at a satisfactory speed , large amounts of text or graphics , fast animation or large shapes , device control , and real-time control . |
| 5 | With Reiter 's disease the ill-effects are due to the body 's reaction rather than to actual infection . |
| 6 | Current staffing levels are low in the SG 's and time spent on tours puts a further strain on this situation . |
| 7 | Naturally , some parent companies are reluctant to give sweeping guarantees , but the arguments in favour of them are strong from the expatriate 's point of view , especially if he is being asked to transfer from the parent to a less substantial overseas subsidiary . |
| 8 | ‘ My arse and thighs are sore from a day 's hard riding . |
| 9 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 10 | The police are grateful for the brewery 's support . |
| 11 | We are grateful for the Group 's advice on these points , which will be duly considered , together with any comments on them . |
| 12 | Results of one investigation suggested that first order births to very young women are disadvantaged by the women 's physiological immaturity and its effect upon the fetus . |
| 13 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply . |
| 14 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply and I know that she will have been as horrified as the rest of us by the images and the conflict that was reported from Somalia last weekend . |
| 15 | I am grateful for the Minister 's sympathetic response to my point . |
| 16 | The flatmates are used to the girl 's rugged pick-ups , but Spunk ( cracking nuts with his teeth , eating unshelled eggs and raw sausages ) is a new wrinkle . |
| 17 | The first is that , as we shall see , the letter of appeal will be included in documents made available to the tribunal in advance of the hearing and a good clear account will ensure that the chairman and members are clear about the claimant 's grievance . |
| 18 | These relief-areas are high above the viewer 's eye-level and are overhung by cornices . |
| 19 | Standards are high in the hotel 's air-conditioned sea view restaurant which offers an á la carte choice of meal . |
| 20 | Silly talk of linking arms around the Berlin wall just might make a few of the supporters of the SDP/Liberal Alliance — whose nuclear policies are indistinguishable from the government 's and whose voting habits are more volatile than Conservatives ' — opt for Mr Foot and his clear policy of unilateral disarmament . |
| 21 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 22 | ( ‘ Means-tested ’ benefits are benefits which are not automatically given , but which are dependent on the recipient 's income or wealth , ie his ‘ means ’ . ) |
| 23 | Having countered their own criticism , however , they go on to argue ( p.120 ) that CA 's " apparent analytical successes are dependent upon the analyst 's stepping beyond the methodological limits allowed by the underlying ethnomethodological principles " . |
| 24 | In other words , both are interested in the transition Homo sapiens made from Nature to Culture . |
| 25 | Economists are interested in the economy 's reactions to such changes because society 's ability to purchase goods and services may be affected . |
| 26 | Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process . |
| 27 | But having 22,000 students milling around my city , I am delighted about the Government 's attitude to student discounts and particularly to the student gap , as it is called — the three months which often used to cause problems under the old community charge arrangements . |
| 28 | She maintains that many well-meaning New Agers are innocently misled through hypnosis and mind-control and are unaware of the movement 's ultimate goals . |
| 29 | Major Mike Twinn , who commands seven detachments within the Middlesbrough area , believes many people are unaware of the detachment 's existence . |
| 30 | This is the strategy employed by strangers who are fearful of the cat 's claws and have to find some way of picking it up without being attacked . |