Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 2 | An electoral chain of command pushes orders up so that the people control things at the same time as those in authority are responsible down to the people or to the government of the people . |
| 3 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 4 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
| 5 | These protect the timber from insects and rots but they also help to account for the high cost of working the best tropical woods because the silica blunts tools very quickly and the splinters of greenheart are poisonous . |
| 6 | The Commercial Division will have to demonstrate strong commercial performance by winning new business , particularly overseas and in the UK private sector reducing costs still further and abandoning unpromising work . |
| 7 | But a massive security campaign pushed militants deeper underground and until today appeared to have stopped attacks on foreigners . |
| 8 | Clearly , all flats located in the northern part of the building enjoy views both up and down the river , because the building is located in a concave curve of the Thames . |
| 9 | the need to plan operations as efficiently as possible for a given level of resources ( or budgeted level of income if a statutory authority is expected to largely generate its own income ) ; |
| 10 | These consist of : ( i ) a direct dealing relationship with the Bank of England ; ( ii ) borrowing facilities at the Bank ; ( iii ) access to IDBs ; ( iv ) facilities for borrowing and lending stock ; and ( v ) the right to submit bids slightly later than others at auctions of new government stock . |
| 11 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 12 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 13 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 14 | Cynically one might observe that the articulate have seized the opportunity to use schools more politically than ever before , disadvantaging still further the already disadvantaged . |
| 15 | Statistically significant differences were found in choice of topical application between doctors and nurses ( p<0.001 ) : DNs were usually responsible for the selection of paste bandages , unmedicated tulles and simple dry dressings , but doctors made the decision to use antibiotics/cortisones more often than nurses . |
| 16 | The change of policy hit women especially hard since they had greatly outnumbered men as recipients of out-door relief . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , as already described , Croydon Corporation saw things rather differently and thought they would stand to lose financially . |
| 18 | It therefore makes sense to use kicks judiciously only when there is a clear opening and the opponent is not expecting a kick . |
| 19 | I certainly could n't afford to waste petrol chasing rainbows as far as Leeds and back . |
| 20 | Asked what he had achieved during such brief talks , Mr Christopher said : ‘ A commitment from the Lebanese government to resume negotiations as soon as possible . ’ |
| 21 | A stubbornly reactionary tsar might conceivably have delayed the measure , but the key to the decision to emancipate lies considerably deeper than the mind of Alexander . |
| 22 | The author 's experience in Africa and Australia , and his study in Europe , convinced him that the participative training techniques developed by the ATB had much to otter agricultural progress in all countries , third world developing countries as well as developed countries . |
| 23 | Therefore , I welcome the opportunity to exhort people who are considering the option of residential care to make inquiries as early as possible with the social security department . |
| 24 | The Regional Railways order made waves not only because it went to a newcomer in train-building . |
| 25 | The Regional Railways order made waves not only because it went to a newcomer in train-building . |
| 26 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 27 | Erm , he did have the right to that trial for erm what the previous offence before taking conveyance which was a clock taken without the owner 's consent and previous offence before that taking but in order to reduce costs right mainly because they also want at the same time to remove the right for theft ah and they failed . |
| 28 | This in turn leads to their ‘ going by the book ’ , their sense of power stemming from their ability to hold things up rather than get things done . |
| 29 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 30 | A Gus O'Donnell drop goal pushed Saints further ahead before a John Gallagher penalty brought Leeds back . |