Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As planners themselves say , traffic is a part of life … building roads leads to more roads .
2 The most popular dude ranch states with British holidaymakers are Arizona , Colorado and Wyoming .
3 The ’ chancer ’ or ’ bodger ’ in the building industry has in recent years become more of a problem .
4 The vigilante movie plays to those emotions in all of us , legitimising it .
5 Directed and co-written ( with brother Rick ) by John Dahl , Red Rock West deals with symbolic characters ( Texans wear big hats and string ties ) , innuendo , telling imagery and notions .
6 The Administration Department consists of four divisions : Legal Services , Administrative Services , Estates Services and Personnel and Management Services .
7 The observation that the period of the sleep/wake rhythm differs from 24 hours is important because it indicates that environmental cues can not have been responsible .
8 Gibberellin , shown to be necessary for continued growth of dodder vine tips in aseptic cultures , also interacts with cytokinins and auxins in the growth of subapical segments ; it augments their effects .
9 Unlike land resources and the capital stock , a country 's labour force consists of human beings with widely differing skills and aspirations whose welfare is affected by changes in both employment levels and the conditions of employment .
10 Possibly the solution is to fix accounting reference dates for those companies choosing to make up their accounts to the end of the month with fewer than 31 days to , say , the third day of the following month and take regular advantage of seven day variation of actual accounting date from accounting reference date allowed by s 223 .
11 This new column by AI 's Urgent Action co-ordinator reports on some aspects of UAs which show they are working .
12 Each action plan leads to specific targets and each of these have its success criterion ( ‘ a form of school-generated performance indicator ’ ) .
13 That maximising the present value of the firm will also maximise shareholder wealth depends on certain assumptions about the efficiency of the stock market ( ’ the efficient market hypothesis ’ ) .
14 The report quotes government figures which show that 40 per cent of toxic metals entering the north-east Atlantic comes from British rivers .
15 Once a current is developed and the head of water is lowered a hydraulic gradient is developed along the beach and a circulation pattern develops of longshore currents feeding seaward rip currents ( Fig. 8.3 ) .
16 Once a year even the most reliable wind pattern fails for eight days or so .
17 This laborious data entry method comes in various guises — that fact in itself explains the slow pace of computer penetration in Japanese society .
18 For example , the way in which the labour movement relates to political parties and the state has been seen as a function of when industrialization occurs ( e.g. Maier 1984 : 55 ; Badie and Birnbaum 1983 : 77–8 ) .
19 Over half the increase in programme spending arises in three areas — social security , transport and the national health service .
20 Britain 's largest Aid Agency works in seventy countries around the world .
21 The scenery is breathtaking , the rugged coast path meanders among tall cliffs , high above the fine beaches and pale turquoise sea .
22 The alternating light and dark bands form as coral growth responds to seasonal changes in the water temperature and cloud cover .
23 One can accept that a certain theoretical position or set of research findings leads to certain conclusions , but one can still question whether these conclusions are relevant to one 's own case .
24 But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon .
25 University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . "
26 For instance , Stravinsky 's Symphonies of Wind Instruments ends with nine bars based on the chord progressions E minor , D minor , and C major , but by adding foreign diatonic notes to each chord he forms small clusters which obscure the harmony and give it a mysterious fascination .
27 In these days of financial sweeteners , surely there are more votes in rescuing 18,000 , mainly elderly , investors from dire financial plight just as there is ensuring that the UK 's last home-grown car manufacturer remains in British hands ?
28 This project will find out how different local waste disposal authorities deal with this problem , especially how they apply national and EEC directives and regulations , and what effect regulation has on particular industries .
29 Second , the addition of aquarium salt to the isolation tank has in some cases also proved positive ; add approximately 1gm per litre .
30 The Association Newsletter deals with some items of interest to BCRS members , viz : —
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