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

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1 Are employers using Compact to fill unattractive jobs ?
2 Despite the changes outlined in the 1988 White Paper , chief officers in many authorities remain likely to experience continuing tensions between the professional requirements of neutrality and the political demands of councillors .
3 However , imposition of liability might result in member States becoming unwilling to allow international organisations to act independently and interfering in their day to day operation .
4 The rising created an atmosphere of disorder in which those with grievances felt free to take violent action against their enemies .
5 1994 calendars include humorous Keep Fit calendar , Waterway Wildlife photographic calendar , exclusive Thelwell calendar
6 For example , some parents feel unable to reprimand asthmatic children in case this provokes an attack .
7 Canal companies employed divers to investigate underwater problems .
8 erm Bicester ran out winners in the end by two one , but what a game , particularly in the second half which was very exciting and very hectic with the visitors trying hard to get that equaliser ; Bicester Town two , Kintbury Rangers one .
9 The Russians seem ready to buy untested products .
10 Of late , stand-alone evaluation boards have fallen out of favour , mainly for two reasons ; many evaluation boards use difficult to standardise RS-232 links , and the boards require a power supply with +-12V for the RS-232 link and another 5V for the power rail .
11 When the banks proved unable to provide much assistance , he turned to 3i .
12 But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime .
13 Substantial foreign aid had helped ; weather conditions seemed likely to give good crop yields , and the early returns of the spring harvest had provided a new supply of food .
14 In these circumstances , executives feel free to commit corporate crimes .
15 Their needs are largely ignored and the introduction of community care reforms seems unlikely to make any difference , according to Counsel and Care .
16 The resources these agencies have available to pursue corporate crime through the courts are inadequate in comparison with those available to large national and transnational corporations .
17 It says many printers remain reluctant to reach individual pay agreements with the GPMU print union , hoping that the British Printing Industries Federation and the union will return to the negotiating table for further talks .
18 Despite having dispensed with sundry items deemed essential to sustain European stomachs on their World Cup visit in 1987 — doctor , diet sheets , microwave oven and Tesco-sponsored tuck-boxes all left them flushed , as it were , with lack of success — England have been here almost a week , practising every day in sauna-bath temperatures for their opening match against Sri Lanka on Sunday .
19 But more and more intellectuals seemed prepared to take this risk and went on to talk of Chaplin 's techniques , his ‘ dolefulness ’ , his sense of rhythm , and his mastery of myth and fancy .
20 Then again , poets seem able to turn bad love — selfish , shitty love into good love poetry .
21 For their part , the lunchers grew accustomed to cet original de Monsieur Flaubert , and were disappointed if they did n't spot him , in Nubian shirt and silk skullcap , gazing back at them , taking the novelist 's view .
22 He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for .
23 Furthermore , despite the proven efficacy of warfarin in primary stroke prevention , physicians remain reluctant to prescribe oral anticoagulants for their older patients with AF because of fears about haemorrhagic complications and understandable concerns about drug compliance in elderly outpatients .
24 With EDS funding due to end next year , ICL is lobbying the European Commission to extend financing for more software research until 1994. 50% of ICL 's EDS research budget came from the EC 's Esprit purse .
25 The Unemployment Act 1934 introduced a national assistance scheme for the unemployed to be managed by the Unemployment Assistance Board under the direction of the Minister of Labour under which allowances became payable to assist unemployed persons .
26 These measures seem certain to remove local government from aspects of educational provision , to reduce massively social security payments to those in the inner-cities — for example , by more than 80 per cent in Liverpool and Glasgow ( Brindle , 1988 ) — and to create financial and social hardship through the imposition of the poll tax .
27 It is often the case that children seem able to recall past lives ( if that is what they are ) more easily than adults .
28 It is important that men feel able to discuss this issue and not experience ridicule and smug responses from so-called enlightened magazines such as yours .
29 I am told that , even today , most juveniles are cautioned or sentenced to community service , or receive a discharge because magistrates remain reluctant to award custodial sentences .
30 Such a happy situation does not , unfortunately , exist in Italy where the magistrates appear unwilling to trust any government official or technical expert .
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