Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count . |
| 2 | Furthermore a number of the alternative words suggested when using the large lexicon , would be unknown to many native speakers ( e.g. betel , bey , littoral , lour , rentiers , ret ) . |
| 3 | McKinsey and Price Waterhouse also left the search industry , with only Peat 's — of all the firms identified as forming the second phase of the history of headhunting — remaining in the business . |
| 4 | Carry out those activities involved when conducting the comprehensive assessment of a person 's nursing requirements . |
| 5 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 6 | Much morality , and thereby much metaphysics , has been distorted by serving a polemical purpose in a clash of ideals seen as dividing the two sexes . |
| 7 | Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police . |