Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANY City stockbrokers , advertising agencies and banking houses are paying substantial bonuses to their high-earning staff to beat the effects of a substantial increase in taxes in the wake of a possible Labour victory on April 9 . |
| 2 | Summons hearings are held fortnightly , and committal cases are held three weeks out of four . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 4 | SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings . |
| 5 | POLICE and football clubs were accused last night of giving in to the ‘ yobs and thugs ’ by forcing managers to stay away from matches . |
| 6 | Entry forms are distributed each September and , if your college has not received a form , apply now . |
| 7 | FOUR car salesmen are claiming sexual discrimination after losing their jobs in a takeover by a company that boasted of its success in using saleswomen . |
| 8 | But until the problem of export licences is solved foreign auction houses will find it difficult to do business |
| 9 | Nevertheless , many agrochemical companies are undertaking extensive research programmes on biological control . |
| 10 | There is a good boat and up to ten bank fishing permits are issued each day . |
| 11 | SCOTTISH football legislators are giving serious consideration to scrapping relegation this season and agreeing to set up a 14-club Premier Division next term as a temporary measure before returning to a top tier of ten teams in 1994-95 . |
| 12 | In addition , the page heading shows how many mail messages are awaiting that user 's attention , and how many have been inspected but not yet deleted . |
| 13 | A small number of Edinburgh University Postgraduate studentships are awarded each year to graduates with First or Upper Second Class Honours degrees ( or equivalent ) from recognised universities who propose to undertake postgraduate research under supervision ( PhD , MLitt , MPhil ) . |
| 14 | If garbage pickers were to become regular employees , the price of waste paper would rise by at least three times and it would not he worthwhile the company buying it . |
| 15 | The idea of the feasibility studies was to clear three problem areas : to determine what kind of after-care provision the DHAs wanted to fund to complement DGH facilities , what kinds of models of service they wanted to achieve , and on the basis of this work to clarify whether district authorities did see asylum replacement as feasible or not . |
| 16 | The aim of the neighbourhood studies was to obtain in-depth information , both linguistic and social , from a number of selected communities . |
| 17 | And credit card customers are paying huge fees of up to 30 per cent a year . |
| 18 | Card holders are guaranteed one ticket per person , per gold cards , and queueing , stresses the club , is unnecessary . |
| 19 | In Greenland alone , 1000–3000 harbour porpoises are killed each year , along with 300–600 belugas ( white whales ) and 400–500 narwhals and some pilot whales . |
| 20 | In this evolving climate , work redesign techniques are finding new expressions in new applications . |
| 21 | Paddy was saying that all the club members were getting ten pound . |
| 22 | The industry leaders are pressing all operators to adopt a standard geomagnetic field model for use in the North Sea , and the Department of Energy is supporting the modelling activities of BGS . |
| 23 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 24 | Glasgow 's labour councillors are meeting this afternoon in the wake of the row over the council 's decision to allow a Sinn Fein member to speak in the city . |
| 25 | The cell pellets were washed three times in phosphate buffered saline ( PBS ) ( 2 ml ) to remove any adherent drug before being resuspended in 1 ml 0.05 M phosphate buffer . |
| 26 | The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other . |
| 27 | At the time of Heidi 's murder police were investigating any links between the incidents . |
| 28 | ‘ We are naturally disappointed that the Court has upheld the Regulations , especially as it is already clear that the legal aid cuts are causing real hardship to a substantial number of people . |
| 29 | In 22 of these patients H pylori was successfully eradicated ( group 1 ) and follow up biopsy specimens were obtained 13–60 months ( median 18 months ) after eradication . |
| 30 | In this new study , Baur made considerable use of Hegel 's dialectical conception , finding the New Testament to reflect , not a homogeneous movement , but a conflict between an earlier , Petrine theology and a later , Pauline type , which the later New Testament documents were attempting dialectical movement in the development of the church and theology in subsequent ages . |