Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be hoped that in the light of the Cleveland Report 's comment that ‘ the child is a person and not an object of concern ’ ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 , p.245 ) that urgent efforts will be made to ensure that the child 's views and perceptions of practice are articulated via sensitively designed research . |
| 2 | WHERE TO DRAW THE GREEN LINE Can UK industry be criticised for not living up to its environmental responsibilities when clear , universally agreed targets are still lacking on many issues . |
| 3 | Fundic argyrophil cell densities in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome were compared with previously published values in 10 healthy control subjects . |
| 4 | A good deal is known about how to teach children to recognise words and , typically , it is this skill that is measured in classroom reading tests . |
| 5 | A tailfin on one side is marked by closely spaced fin rays , but no other fins are preserved . |
| 6 | More research is needed in how to make safety seats more effective in such crashes . |
| 7 | The film is not primarily a combat movie : no attempt is made to fully identify the kind of unit the protagonists are attached to , nor is there any attempt to locate the central act in time or place . |
| 8 | Anyone who spots the suspected device under the car is asked to urgently contact the RUC in Derry on ( 0504 ) 367337 . |
| 9 | For is this not also the party which is led by a woman who has devoted much effort to preaching the virtues of abolishing precisely what Labour is trying at least to re-define : socialism itself . |
| 10 | Traction alopecia is caused by tightly pulled pony-tails , braids and chignons ; friction alopecia occurs when hair bands , wigs or hats are too tight and the hair breaks off . |
| 11 | In the first part of The Form , language is used to denote action and inner states that are immediately recognisable so that , for instance , cleanness of mouth is defined as not talking for the sake of it and telling no lies ( c.5 ) . |
| 12 | The lunch also served the purpose of introducing the company 's executives to this particular section of the media , and a good deal was learnt about how to get the most out of the sponsorship . |
| 13 | The crystal chandelier in the Queen 's bedroom was electrified with specially devised candle lamps in miniature candleholders . |
| 14 | This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies . |
| 15 | Sixty-three-year-old charge nurse Graham Pink was sacked after allegedly breaching patient confidentiality during his one-man campaign about conditions at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport . |
| 16 | An additional measure of objective risk which is similar to the one used in the Watts and Quimby ( 1980 ) study was obtained by simply dividing the number of accidents by the traffic flow ( note that the units of this measure are essentially arbitrary ) . |
| 17 | However , in the 1981 Census an attempt was made to physically define urban areas , at the enumeration district level , by using a threshold of 1,000 people and 20 hectares of urban land ( Denham , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | His body was hacked to pieces before an attempt was made to crudely incinerate it . |
| 19 | Advisory groups and panels were asked to assess and rate research quality , but no guidance was given on how to identify or recognize quality . |
| 20 | The sheep industry was poised for far reaching change . |
| 21 | In the Autumn of 1992 a 5 day course in leadership and team-building was held at Outward Bound , Ullswater . |
| 22 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 23 | Excavation , the unearthing , examination , and recording of archaeological sites , is most people 's idea of archaeology , despite the fact that in many countries far more valuable work is done by accurately locating and plotting unknown sites , rather than by excavation . |
| 24 | In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators . |
| 25 | This work is accomplished by manually digitizing the field surveyors ' Master Survey Drawing ( MSD ) which consists of the current published map sheet plus amendments noted by the surveyors . |
| 26 | Propagation is done by either dividing the rootstock with shoots or by planting seeds in a container of damp sand or loam . |
| 27 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Micro Twist is designed to effectively convert DB15 AUI Ethernet ports to 10BaseT . |
| 29 | And right now the term competitiveness is used to basically get by safety regulations and anything else concerning safety . |
| 30 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |