Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground twitches , gurgles and bubbles as the insect minutiae adapts to sudden flooding . |
| 2 | Additional algorithms are used to model total building damage costs for each grid cell based on water-depth and speed-depth rating curves . |
| 3 | Over half of all pensioner income comes from social security . |
| 4 | As planners themselves say , traffic is a part of life … building roads leads to more roads . |
| 5 | Of course consumerism works by convincing people that they actually ‘ need ’ non-essential products as an aid to the quality of life . |
| 6 | The base category acts in analogous manner to the fitted median with interval level data . |
| 7 | At present responsibility falls into several government departments . |
| 8 | The most popular dude ranch states with British holidaymakers are Arizona , Colorado and Wyoming . |
| 9 | At present BIRON consists of descriptive information about studies held , not the datasets themselves , which have to be ordered from the Archive in a separate process . |
| 10 | There will be funds for the schooling of the Corporation Man 's children , special superannuation schemes and of course expense accounts for overseas travel , entertaining and other corporation ‘ responsibilities ’ . |
| 11 | The ’ chancer ’ or ’ bodger ’ in the building industry has in recent years become more of a problem . |
| 12 | The vigilante movie plays to those emotions in all of us , legitimising it . |
| 13 | The trading performance of the Scotch Whisky Industry stands in marked contrast to that of UK plc . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Twin humbucker guitars are enjoying something of a rebirth at present , thanks mainly to the players who are treading that particular path ( I 'm thinking of Nuno , Satriani & co ) and having played Strat derivatives for so long , it 's easy to forget just how good a neck humbucker sounds at full throttle . |
| 16 | Hence the expansion of dictionary definitions descends into progressive generality , displaying a weaker and weaker semantic relationship with the original word . |
| 17 | The Administration Department consists of four divisions : Legal Services , Administrative Services , Estates Services and Personnel and Management Services . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A substantial proportion of the temporary labour force works on apart-time basis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If Graham can write something solid about the lousy deal research gets in this country , it can do nothing but good . |
| 23 | His seal ring appears on one coin , while others depict the goddess Roma wearing his war helmet and the god Hercules , who is shown wearing Alexander 's diadem and with his hairstyle ( fig. 21 ) . |
| 24 | Section 13 of the Partnership Act deals with improper employment of property subject to a trust along similar principles , in recognition that trust money comes into a firm otherwise than in the normal course of its business so that something extra is required to fix liability on the firm as a whole : If a partner , being a trustee , improperly employs trust-property in the business or on account of the partnership , no other partner is liable for the trust-property to the persons beneficially interested therein . |
| 25 | Section 36 of the Partnership Act assists in this connection : ( 1 ) Where a person deals with a firm after a change in its constitution he is entitled to treat all apparent members of the old firm as still being members of the firm until he has notice of the change . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | — to provide information , through appropriate media , to the whole community which will enhance opportunities for researchers and practitioner contributions to substantive research within the Programme and beyond ; — to liaise and seek additional contributions in the formulation of the research/evaluation agenda and its execution from other bodies ( DES , SED , TC , DTI , EEC , UNESCO , industry , training bodies , etc. ) ; — to support UK participation in multi national conferences , programmes and projects organised by such agencies as the British Council and the EEC ( ESPRIT , DELTA , AND COMETT ) ; — to assist ESRC in its relations with SERC , DTI etc. in post- ALVEY , joint Research Council approaches to cognitive science and human computer interaction , and other joint governmental initiatives which require an IT and education contribution . |
| 28 | This new column by AI 's Urgent Action co-ordinator reports on some aspects of UAs which show they are working . |
| 29 | Each action plan leads to specific targets and each of these have its success criterion ( ‘ a form of school-generated performance indicator ’ ) . |
| 30 | 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 ’ ) . |