Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the DME framework was not interoperable with other OSF founders ' Corba technologies has meant that some layers of DME have had to be re-designed and/or re-written using donated parts of Hewlett-Packard Co 's Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM 's System Object Model ( SOM ) . |
| 2 | The fact that the DME framework was not interoperable with other Software Foundation founders ' object broker technologies has meant that some layers of DME have had to be re-designed and/or re-written using donated parts of Hewlett-Packard 's Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM 's System Object Model . |
| 3 | The success of the small claims system in these courts has shown that simplified procedures can enable people to conduct their own cases or rely on a lay adviser . |
| 4 | After the siesta , shops began to open and normal rhythms were resumed . |
| 5 | ⅓ of drivers questioned believed that most accidents happen on Motorways . |
| 6 | In five patients the nodules had disappeared and histological specimens showed only diffuse hyperplasia of argyrophil cells . |
| 7 | However , this legislation has been less effective than many of its supporters had wanted and most cases of discrimination against women which are taken before the industrial tribunals do not succeed . |
| 8 | The practices of organisations in all of the sectors studied suggest that fixed-term contracts are by no means the only way in which short-term contract workers can be recruited . |
| 9 | In August 1989 , at the start of the 1989-90 season , the government introduced an identity-card system for supporters in an attempt to curb violence , but this was abandoned shortly afterwards when fans refused to comply and local authorities declared that they could not enforce it . |
| 10 | The inclusion of penguins among the animals depicted can now be seen as the first indication that prehistorians have had that these birds were present in the Mediterranean during the palaeolithic era , and not proof , as was recently suggested , that the paintings are modern forgeries . |
| 11 | As a sort of bridge person I was quite interested to find out how different the works , the , the , the Permanent Way office does the structural things and er obviously all the clients have feared that this resources would be thrown perhaps . |
| 12 | Third , political parties have declined as serious inputs into policy-making , either because a single party grouping has emerged as dominant over all alternatives ( as in Japan or Gaullist France ) , or because where two party groupings alternate in power , executive authority is always monopolized by a centrist bloc which spans both possible parties of government ( as in Britain or West Germany ) . |
| 13 | As the sensitivity of stress testing is poor in patients with anterior infarction some authors have suggested that all patients with an anterior infarct and reduced left ventricular function should be catheterised as it is patients such as these with triple vessel disease that benefit most from revascularisation . |
| 14 | Many authors have suggested that single measures of input or output should not be used in evaluating research groups , institutions , or nations . |
| 15 | For instance , when subjects have to decide whether certain names are familiar or not ( say , Oliver Hardy ) they respond more quickly if they are shown , a few tenths of seconds earlier , a picture of a person who is associated with the target name ( Stan Laurel ) . |
| 16 | Various experiments done in volcanic environments have shown that proteinoid globules are very likely to form in such regions . |
| 17 | Schools need to ensure that all pupils , irrespective of their backgrounds , have an equal opportunity to achieve the attainment targets . |
| 18 | Carpenter kept track of the birds ' weight changes by means of perches attached to spring or electronic balances ( Figure 7.6 ) . |
| 19 | Safeguards Later on today , senior Jockey Club stewards meet to decide whether disciplinary proceedings are necessary , in the wake of Mr Justice Connell 's Grand National inquiry . |
| 20 | But an inspection earlier this month showed three sites had damaged or missing signs , two had damaged or missing dog fouling bins , three had damaged fencing and one had dog excrement . |
| 21 | The responsibility which parents have to ensure that sexual acts do not take place between themselves and their children is surely not confined to sexual intercourse . |
| 22 | Almost all companies have decided that these items are best left to specialist manufacturers . |
| 23 | Prospectuses issued by both power companies have admitted that environmental costs may be on the rise , but no figures have been given . |
| 24 | Since the refusal of the FRG to accept free elections throughout Germany in 1952 , and the inclusion of the FRG in the system of closed Western military-political and economic blocs , circumstances have changed and new realities have evolved . |
| 25 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |
| 26 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |
| 27 | The introduction and subsequent evolution of restorative proctocolectomy over the past 14 years has meant that most patients who require surgical treatment for chronic ulcerative colitis are no longer condemned to life with a permanent ileostomy . |
| 28 | Gradually , however , governments came to feel that second-best considerations could not be ignored . |
| 29 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 30 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |