Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 2 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 3 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 4 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 5 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 6 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 7 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 8 | Boundary disputes have become perhaps the classic setting for the presentation of bilateral claims in which third parties may claim an interest . |
| 9 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 10 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 12 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 13 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 14 | Even though the certificates have taken on a different appearance , their structure remains the same . |
| 15 | Some have pointed out with justice that the Max Planck Institutes have bled away the best research talent from the universities . |
| 16 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 17 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |
| 18 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 19 | A situation where at least 27% of libraries appear to provide virtually no systematic training at all ( see Table 2 ) is inefficient and inequitable . |
| 20 | Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ? |
| 21 | However , DHAs could suffer the secondary effects of such selection if GP budget-holders choose to select only the lower risks leaving the DHA with the higher-cost patients within any category . |
| 22 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 23 | Aids have claimed quite a few victims now |
| 24 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON health officials have drawn up a smart new logo as part of their plans to revamp the service 's image . |
| 26 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 27 | Although these missions may be scaled down if the alliance 's Patriot missiles continue to destroy almost every incoming Scud , a fear remains that Iraq might be able to replace the conventional warheads with chemical ones . |
| 28 | The new directives aim to bring down the maximum permitted level of nitrates in drinking water to 50mg per litre . |
| 29 | From the direct comparison of housework with factory work we move to an aspect of work which many studies agree has possibly the strongest influence on a worker 's satisfaction . |
| 30 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |