Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities .
2 Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level .
3 The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all .
4 Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part .
5 They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment .
6 For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale .
7 Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework .
8 The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General .
9 However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world .
10 It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice .
11 Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce .
12 The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association .
13 In social work practice the term ‘ relationship ’ is used to describe the context of the general helping activities undertaken by a social worker in interaction with a particular client .
14 On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) .
15 And she returned shortly afterwards with a thick roll of notes fastened with a rubber band and Melanie counted out seventy-eight pounds and a ten shilling note and the woman gave her five shillings from her alligator purse .
16 If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system .
17 Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg .
18 This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges .
19 If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only .
20 If the planning application is persisted with , I support the plea for calling it in , for the reasons given by the hon. Member for Beaconsfield .
21 Many clinicians have seized the opportunities implicit within the clinical directorate structure believing that in a cash limited system the most positive response to any threat to clinical freedom is to become involved in the discussions stemming from the financial restriction .
22 Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees .
23 They have various strategies to cope with the showy behaviour of boys , such as giving more attention , allotting instant verbal or physical punishment , aligning the curriculum to interest them ; the normal deviant girl does not anyway present too many control problems .
24 Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules .
25 I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev .
26 This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies .
27 But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) .
28 Continuing through the scattered little climatic resort the road leads to the Heiligenschwendi Klinik , a large hospital originally treating respiratory diseases but in more recent times catering for a wide variety of patients .
29 Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour .
30 Japan was not unique in the problems faced by her rural population , but her attempts to search for an external outlet for domestic discontent were unusually vigorous .
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