Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " 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 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 4 | At Winfrith , a range of skills developed for nuclear modelling and inspection were adapted for use by the offshore oil industry . |
| 5 | Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result . |
| 6 | It looks closely at the range of policies developed by local government and in so doing assesses the relative responsibilities of various professional and political groups for their initiation and enactment . |
| 7 | Hedges rose to either side and the Cadillac 's wing mirrors clipped against them . |
| 8 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 9 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 10 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 11 | and that voters should create pressure groups committed to this purpose and the acceptance of policies of arms control with the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | But the Third World poor , on the receiving end of programmes designed by one faction or the other , do not have this option . |
| 13 | His friends ' villa , set in sprawling gardens , had a distinctly Spanish air — with its balconies decorated with wrought-iron scrollwork and a pretty bell tower in one corner . |
| 14 | The Institute has written to the Law Commission urging a change in the Financial Services Act rules relating to confidential information and Chinese walls . |
| 15 | Others drifted on , passed the squeeze-box man and the charity collectors , to the girl in black brogues and red ribbons wailing of lost love and wicked soldiers . |
| 16 | Redknapp spent the best part of six months recovering from serious head and leg injuries after the horror crash near Rome involving a mini-bus in which he and ex-Aston Villa star Tiler were travelling . |
| 17 | There was no significant difference between the number of words recalled in this condition and the number recalled by subjects who were not given any information about the theme of the passage . |
| 18 | On their last two visits to Edinburgh , I have seen English supporters exposed to extreme intimidation and provocation . |
| 19 | He continues , ‘ So then , we do not speak in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit , as we explain spiritual truths to those who have the Spirit ’ ( 2:13 ) . |
| 20 | Responsibility for the clean-up operation now falls on the German state , whose legacy includes two lakes filled with radioactive waste and massive tips of soil contaminated with uranium . |
| 21 | But on the walls Edwin Garland 's pictures glowed with dramatic intensity and a curious effect of translucence . |
| 22 | The styles change with bewildering rapidity but the way of tying a scarf or the kind of boots and socks worn carry a message about the ‘ hardness ’ of the wearer . |
| 23 | When they reach the borders of their territory , they take a few steps with lowered hindquarters so that long grass passing between their back legs rubs against this gland and acquires a smell that even a human nose can easily detect . |
| 24 | Prior to independence many local authorities topped up the amounts the polytechnics received from central government and from fees : the total addition to resources from topping up was between £60 million and £70 million a year . |
| 25 | Table 6.2 shows the correlations between the ratings given in this experiment and the eight ratings given in the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 26 | The decision to make this process possible by the foundation of colleges or universities and the financial maintenance of students has been taken , down through the ages , by the sources of munificence in each succeeding period , until in our own day the lion 's share is produced through public funds voted by central government and local authorities . |
| 27 | However , strong competition from quality-minded foreign competitors forces manufacturers to work towards absolute quality and to realize that quality and cost are complementary — raising quality decreases cost . |
| 28 | Cal-Volair did the work at both its shops located at Long Beach and Oxnard , California . |
| 29 | There are also opportunities to train in central government and commerce and industry . |
| 30 | Next the murdering puffs of explosive charge and ragged steel fragments dissolved into weak smoke and the plane was butting through the piece of sky which , seconds before , had been laced with violence ; and meanwhile , other shell bursts erupted just as unpredictably ahead , and behind , and below . |