Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are of course cases where the implications of ideas about communication have been thought through and subjected to more accommodating interpretation . |
| 2 | The solution to the difficulty demands instead a review of all the cases in which legacy and trust are confused . |
| 3 | Many Stoddard Templeton ranges already use heather effect yarns so the benefit to the company could be considerable . |
| 4 | More useful are term bills where a period of credit is allowed . |
| 5 | ( This chapter studies only the phenomenon of the North-South divide and does not consider its causes . |
| 6 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 7 | As this wall faces north the sun seldom shines on any of these , a dismal fact for gardeners working in them but usual for old kitchen gardens where every inch of warm south-facing ground was wanted for crops . |
| 8 | A quite separate area of interest has been the question of actuarial advice on pensions in divorce cases where the law in Scotland requires that the value of pensions is taken into consideration and could be the model for a change in English law . |
| 9 | It was a difficult journey , especially in the winter months when the vagaries of intemperate and often violent weather meant that remote airports could be closed down within minutes . |
| 10 | This is particularly important for public sector organisations where a change in the ruling political party may mean a change in policies and priorities . |
| 11 | Likewise , many of the methods are useful in manpower studies where the population under investigation is a large workforce , recruitment and leaving ( for whatever reason ) are the analogues of birth and death respectively , and we are interested in the stability of the age/sex structure or length of service patterns and the prediction of natural wastage . |
| 12 | There are probably also many minor licensing decisions where no element of fairness is accorded , particularly with respect to licences granted by local authorities . |
| 13 | This may be of particular benefit in paediatric liver diseases where the diagnosis of PSC may be made without resorting to invasive techniques . |
| 14 | ( There are , it must be said , changes taking place at the level of examination syllabuses and question papers where the role of women appears with increasing frequency . ) |
| 15 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 16 | However , a risk may be perceived , especially in regard to small business audits where the marking of client records might assist in accounts preparation . |
| 17 | There were harmonic overtones also at the conference sessions where a number of the technical papers were presented jointly by representatives of oil companies and their contractors . |
| 18 | Merger accounting to be restricted to those business combinations where the use of acquisition accounting would not properly reflect the true nature of the combination . |
| 19 | The experimental programme involved group sessions once a week with a maximum of 16 patients in a group . |
| 20 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 21 | In fact , the possibility that mercury vapour lights attract more insects than sodium lights has led to concern from bat enthusiasts when a change to sodium lighting has been proposed in some places . |
| 22 | I remember many debates on poll tax motions when the chairman of the Conservative party came along . |
| 23 | If you thought that shareware had little to offer serious business users then a look at PC-Type may do much to change your mind . |
| 24 | This conception of the signifier bears only a vestige of its Saussurean ancestry , for there is nothing formalist about it and it is not part of a structural attempt to outline the basic grammar of any system . |
| 25 | If it is not the intention to update shipping serviced to maintain land-bridge services then the establishment of a sea-bridge to Europe must be earnestly considered . |
| 26 | In its flight from the French security services once the war in Europe had broken out , the Party had , if only inadvertently , operationalized its interest in the peasantry ; if only for the fact that , in leaving the towns , they were now living amongst them . |
| 27 | Three minutes later , the computer prints out a list of 60 names of suitable recipients , together with their relevant data . |
| 28 | Unequal negotiating positions Where the parties to a restraint agreement are not on equal negotiating terms . |
| 29 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 30 | Recent court cases where the victims of rape have been seen by judges as contributing to the crime through their ‘ negligence ’ — for example hitch-hiking alone — are not likely to act as an encouragement for other victims to report such offences . |