Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of NVQs and SVQs is underpinned by the assumption that in order for Britain to maintain and enhance its economic position in an increasingly competitive market it requires a more qualified , skilled , flexible and adaptable workforce capable of acquiring the competences to cope with changing technology and methods of work . |
| 2 | They stare from train windows trying to get all the houses to fit into each other , and watch the anarchic autumn leaves fall with sheer disgust . |
| 3 | Leave the tails to dry on non-stick paper overnight . |
| 4 | Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening … |
| 5 | It is a metallic work-horse , miraculous , but laboured , straining at the shoulders to land in one piece . |
| 6 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 7 | The lists of attainments in Profiles of Development are not only a means to record learning , they are also an intervention in teaching — an attempt by the authors to define in more detail the National Curriculum as it applies to ‘ individuals for whom there is concern over progress ’ . |
| 8 | It it 's obviously wrong that where they have had access , lawful or otherwise , that the that they should n't be interfering with the rights and the ability of the walkers to walk along that route . |
| 9 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |
| 10 | It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them . |
| 11 | In addition , it was found that the breach was caused by the negligence of the defendants , and that it would have been relatively easy for the defendants to insure against potential liability to the plaintiffs . |
| 12 | I think that one of the barriers to progress in this community is too many preconditions rather than more communication , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Phoned all day , he said , you 'd better get the engineers to look at that telephone of yours . |
| 14 | This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped . |
| 15 | Add the mint and allow the flavours to mingle for 1 hour . |
| 16 | This will provide a better climate for the workers to push for higher wage rates . |
| 17 | In the late 1890s the so-called ‘ Economists ’ encouraged the workers to settle for piecemeal improvement in their economic conditions , for mere trade unionism , rather than revolutionary struggle against capitalism . |
| 18 | On the basis of my professional acquaintance with some of the workers involved in the Kent and later Darlington projects , I can say that this appeared to be the result , and that there were real incentives for the workers to work in this way . |
| 19 | He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ . |
| 20 | It may be doubted whether a picket in which the members move around in a circle amounts to a procession ; the term denotes the intention on the part of the participants to move from one location to another . |
| 21 | Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival . |
| 22 | Being in a direct line between the coast and London , Croydon and Penge were early among the places to suffer from heavy bomb damage . |
| 23 | Contemporarily the state , through administrative and financial controls , has lessened that autonomy while allowing the universities to reshape with comparative ease their governing statutes . |
| 24 | Admission of a £2bn cost overrun has sent Eurotunnel back to the banks to plead for fresh financing . |
| 25 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 26 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 27 | It is significant that one of the figures to emerge from this period , the poet Valentin Vodnik ( 1759–1819 ) , wrote poems in praise of Napoleon . |
| 28 | FE colleges will continue to receive support for adult education , while local authorities will retain the resources to respond to local demand for leisure courses . |
| 29 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 30 | Women had always been denied the rights to vote in any election , but the Local Government Act , 1894 , gave women property owners , in England and Wales , the right to vote in local elections , but they were still excluded from Parliamentary elections . |