Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most vets are able to carry out humane destruction either at the surgery or at your home . |
| 2 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 3 | The recruit drafts , the militia , the interruption to trade increase people 's needs and poverty " ; " Russians are ready to surmount still more hardships , [ but ] if the government attained peace on honourable terms , maintaining its resolve and dignity , that would bring general joy to the empire " . |
| 4 | Most employers are reluctant to pay too much attention to personal circumstances , such as marital status or domestic problems when arriving at redundancy decisions . |
| 5 | ‘ Clubs are free to enter as many runners as they wish , ’ said organiser Paul Whitten . |
| 6 | Digital signatures are possible using presently available technology , in particular the RSA cipher , and in spite of the technical complexity will provide sufficient information to permit proof that the document is indeed authentic . |
| 7 | Cyclists are able to use nearly all the public roads in Lothian Region ; only the M8 and M9 motorways and the West Approach Road are prohibited . |
| 8 | Such groups are likely to evolve more complex co-operative behaviour than will arise in a selfish herd . |
| 9 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 10 | Medium-sized funds may have a small proportion invested in managed funds , with the majority of assets in its direct control , large pension funds are likely to have totally direct control , whilst smaller funds may simply invest in a range of managed policies . |
| 11 | In fact , experience would suggest that , when education is deinstitutionalised those with an interest in traditional subjects are likely to come forward first since they have already defined their interest but have been deterred by the formal procedure . |
| 12 | Even so , insurers are likely to become more conservative . |
| 13 | Both BNP and Liberal Democrat candidates are entitled to have almost 39,000 election leaflets delivered to homes in Darlington free of charge . |
| 14 | Many have poor accommodation , are poorly resourced and , a number when inspected by HMI , are found to give inadequate standards of education — yet parents are willing to pay quite substantial fees to send their children to these schools . |
| 15 | Although these models are able to represent more complex situations , to some extent this has been at the cost of reduced elegance and simplicity and only the entity-relationship model of Chen is widely used as a data modelling tool . |
| 16 | Water companies are obliged to give more comprehensive data to local councils , so consumers should be able to get at least the same amount of information . |
| 17 | Software companies are reluctant to say how much piracy costs them . |
| 18 | Such is the event 's profile that private companies are willing to put forward healthy sums of prize money , the largest being the £15,000 given by executive search group Korn/Ferry for best entry in a number of categories . |
| 19 | Imports are likely to grow as loss-making capacity is reduced . |
| 20 | Data protection legislation already imposes important obligations upon data users , and such obligations are likely to become more onerous once the EC directive is adopted . |
| 21 | Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 , a hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to make good any loss of or damage to a guest 's property even though it was not due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel . |
| 22 | The meeting also approved changes to voting arrangements , abolishing certain procedures first employed in 1988 party elections [ see p. 36137 ] , including the controversial queue-voting system ( whereby voters in primary elections queued publicly behind a picture of their preferred candidate ) and the rule under which candidates obtaining 70 per cent of the votes in such primaries were entitled to go forward unopposed . |
| 23 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 24 | It that keeps up , buyers are likely to remain very happy . |
| 25 | For instance , during an investigation , the police must concentrate upon collecting adequate and appropriate evidence for a possible prosecution , whereas social workers are concerned to gain much broader information about the child and the family 's situation and resources . |
| 26 | A study sponsored by the Natural Environment Research Council has found that trees exposed to air-pollutant gases are likely to suffer as much from aphid attacks as from the direct effects of the pollutants . |
| 27 | It is revealing that the British and American governments are reluctant to accept as illegal and inhumane in international conflicts weapons with which they are willing to arm their police forces for use against their own people . |
| 28 | Not all dogs are dangerous entails Not all animals are dangerous 2 . |
| 29 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 30 | As it does so , individuals are able to become more conscious of the assumptions about personal worth and ‘ correct conduct ’ that they themselves had been tacitly making , and to see that an alternative personal philosophy could generate greater inner strength , and decrease their dependency on other people 's approval . |