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

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1 In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) .
2 This agency should be funded as employers are given financial help to carry out their obligations under the legislation .
3 Directors are delighted with the cuts and modest increases at a time when many clubs are announcing hefty rises to help pay for ground re-development schemes and the move to all-seater stadia .
4 Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK .
5 Various funding agencies including Sight Savers are promoting integrated education enabling blind and sighted children to accept and adjust to each other .
6 However , our research indicates that this is not happening , primarily because there has been a failure in most parts of the world to recognize or accept the critical role played by paraprofessionals in social service delivery , little effort has been devoted to the clarification of appropriate paraprofessional roles and functions and to their training and deployment , and too few social work education programmes are training social workers to work alongside paraprofessional personnel .
7 The RSPCA is also concerned that the birds are allowed enough freedom to behave naturally … that 's natural apparently .
8 THE mother and father of a boy born without eyes are joining other parents to fight for the truth behind their son 's rare condition possibly linked to pesticides .
9 These seemingly harmless four words are repeated several times to form the lyric ‘ As clouds roll by for you and I ’ .
10 The more solidly rooted your characters are as being people like oneself or one 's readers , the more willing will those readers be to countenance absurd events happening to them .
11 Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland .
12 In other words , the subjects were making determined efforts to understand the dynamic aspects of the problem .
13 Bernard Uniforms , one of the country 's leading uniform manufacturers is to let ten staff go from its workforce of more than 160 .
14 For a syntactic analyser it is necessary that the words be given some identifier to show the grammatical category of the word .
15 The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice .
16 Between the bays are set semicircular chapels giving an exterior appearance of a gladiolus corm growing its smaller new corms around its base .
17 Many of the UK 's quoted companies are using inappropriate techniques to evaluate leases .
18 There is no doubt that members and creditors ( actual or potential ) of companies are afforded ample opportunities to obtain a great deal of financial and other information about the companies concerned .
19 Some companies are making strenuous efforts to increase the proportion of women at all levels of employment .
20 AZERBAIJAN : The Christian Armenians are fighting Muslim Azerbaijanis to keep control of the Nagorno Karabakh hills .
21 The example cited is the impossibility of auditors ' giving an opinion on the code recommendation that non-executive directors are to bring independent judgment to bear on issues of strategy , performance , and so on .
22 Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault .
23 Meanwhile other European countries were pursuing more value added chemistry .
24 Two days ago the Croats were given 24 hours to leave .
25 MINERS were threatening last night to drag Michael Heseltine back to court for not ordering 10 axed pits to be reopened .
26 The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear .
27 H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm .
28 , A lack of qualified engineers is causing long delays to mount up in the programme of strengthening road bridges , which needs to be carried out ahead of the introduction of 40-tonne lorries , scheduled for 1998 .
29 One real concern of reformers was to prevent social disorder disrupting the efficient working of the country .
30 It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow .
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