Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 2 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 3 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 4 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 5 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 6 | The formulation of inductive generalizations ( using algebraic notation ) , or the application of rules to a new context , are more specific meanings attached to the term . |
| 7 | The associative data is extracted from the INSERT PARTS command , and the spatial data from the digitized coordinates and the inserted part 's drawing file , which is a structured set of work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files held in the CAD data base ( this is fully explained in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 9 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression . |
| 11 | The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool . |
| 12 | In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board . |
| 13 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 14 | The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps . |
| 15 | The difficulty in obtaining the compliance of the United States to an agreement on Afghanistan between the regional states involved in the conflict stemmed from a continued American reluctance to accept an unrepresentative pro-Soviet and Marxist-inclined ( if not dominated ) government in that state . |
| 16 | Furthermore , if resources permit , it might be possible to also examine one of the telecommunications-related projects organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry which will contribute to the development of the broader digital network system . |
| 17 | Kate will always care enough to make sure the fridge is full of food and the airing cupboard full of clean linen and the beds changed regularly and the carpets swept and the dishes washed and the lunch cooked and the rats and the lice and the assorted nasties consigned to the dustbin of history . |
| 18 | Kahnweiler , who himself often helped the painters to choose titles for their paintings , in Der Weg zum Kubismus emphasizes the importance of the descriptive titles attached to the works as further means of enabling the spectator to reconstruct fully the subjects . |
| 19 | Atlantik-Brücke , an outfit that fosters German-American ties , has launched a campaign to help families in Germany of allied servicemen sent to the Gulf . |
| 20 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 21 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
| 22 | The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones . |
| 23 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 24 | Islamic groups led by the League of the Sons of Yemen and the Yemen Reform Group [ see p. 38075 ] had urged a boycott of the referendum , and staged a rally in San'aa , the capital , on May 12 in which an estimated 25,000-30,000 people participated . |
| 25 | A woman the same age as their combined ages stepped into the car at Woodford and quickly stepped out again when she saw Lee swinging from the passenger hand-holds , Damon and Kevin sparring on the floor and Chris doing something to a continental ferry advertisement with a red felt-tipped pen . |
| 26 | While Belous and Hartley are reasonably satisfied that the creation of the SEM will not result in high levels of trade diversion , at least for the USA , they are less sure about the possibility of the growth of protectionist policies connected to the SEM ( see chapters 10 and 13 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Urrah , urrah , urrah ’ : their growling calls carried above the sound of the sea — and all those other bird noises . |
| 28 | in word processing or desktop publishing this is a store of pre-hyphenated words that do not conform to the usual rules contained in the hyphenation and justification program ( H&J ) . |
| 29 | Influenced by J.M. Keynes , one of its fourteen authors , it argued for expansionist economic policies financed by the state through a Board of National Investment and a vast public works programme . |
| 30 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |