Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If you rate the difficulty or effort needed to achieve those objectives , it will help you to avoid choosing all the most difficult ones in the first week .
2 Although the concentration and effort required to do this may sometimes produce fatigue , this is temporary and in no way signifies that sight will ‘ wear out ’ with use .
3 This is due to their large size , the complexity and time required to install such a system and the fact that a machine bound system tends to be less flexible to change and re-layout .
4 This might , he appreciated , mean putting sections of the house ‘ under wraps ’ , but would I bring all my experience and expertise to bear to ensure such losses were kept to a minimum ?
5 And its aeronautically inspired rear wing and shape helps to keep all 175 bhp of turbo-charged power where it belongs , on the tarmac .
6 The teacher and student get to know each other well , and therefore work in a relaxed productive way .
7 The new recruit into any organisation or group has to learn these norms and the codes of speech that groups employ before they can feel part of the group .
8 A personal approach from a friend or acquaintance seems to sway many people to join .
9 The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme .
10 It is my earnest wish that rugby continues to fulfil this role .
11 Hartmann argues that there is a vicious circle in which patriarchy and capitalism tend to maintain each other .
12 The farmhouse in which the author now lives was thought , locally , to be about 250 years old — its general style and construction seeming to indicate this .
13 We were not convinced , however , that his plan to reintroduce small unitary authorities would foster the vision and expertise needed to meet this challenge .
14 Although biofeedback and hypnotism seem to benefit some patients , such services are not often readily available .
15 The molality of the solute is expressed in terms of the unknown molar mass and the experimentally determined masses of solute and solvent required to give this elevation of boiling point .
16 The technology required to cope with this would far beyond the capabilities of the microcomputers present in school and the cost of hardware and software needed to run such system would be prohibitive .
17 People who ooze experience , self-confidence and charisma appear to find most aspects of teaching easy ; many of the best drama teachers I 've seen working , however , are quiet and self-effacing , and I 've seen relatively inexperienced young students running very successful whole group drama sessions .
18 This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour .
19 Since the Japanese and Taiwanese refused to supply any data on the albacore drift-net fishery , it was hardly surprising that no information on incidental dolphin catches had come to light .
20 Other tongues suggested that Valentin was Elena 's illegitimate child by another man , but the chronology of his gestation and birth seems to rule that out as malicious gossip .
21 Books Tokens is planning a mailing to primary schools in the UK and Ireland in April , and would be interested to hear from any publisher or organisation wishing to reach this market with a view to sharing costs .
22 Children whose teachers rated their ability as average tended to spend less time on work and routine activities and more time distracted or awaiting attention than either those who were thought to be above average in ability or those who were rated as below average .
23 All these restrictions , whether carrying a right to compensation or not , are imposed in the public interest , and the essence of the compensation problem as regards the imposition of restrictions appears to be this — at what point does the public interest become such that a private individual ought to be compelled on to comply , at his own cost , with a restriction or requirement designed to secure that public interest ?
24 Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers .
25 The fact that English tends to make these ‘ order errors ’ is not particularly surprising since its system of tenses and conditional structures allow easy reference to events out of sequence , for example :
26 The Committee for International Justice and Peace wishes to make this letter public so its text will be released to the press after you have received it .
27 Australia and New Zealand hold an annual meeting to discuss matters of mutual interest and French decided to broaden these horizons following the changes within South Africa and invite a SARFU delegation to attend a meeting in Sydney together with representatives from the Argentine Rugby Union .
28 If the rarity of jade and the distances from which men were prepared to obtain supplies were one indication of the high regard in which the material was held by certain peoples , the investment in time and labour needed to shape this hard material to social needs was even more eloquent of its honorific status .
29 Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate …
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