Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |
| 2 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 3 | Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) . |
| 4 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 5 | He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry . |
| 6 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 7 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 8 | Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage . |
| 9 | Secondly , there is the increasing demand in the developed world for wood and wood products which is placing more pressure on indigenous forests , while in many developing countries land and fuelwood scarcity as well as the need to earn foreign currency are prompting wood harvesting at a hitherto unprecedented rate and often under inadequate management . |
| 10 | For the more environmentally sensitive areas which are assuming more importance , the |
| 11 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 12 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 13 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 14 | Students at the University are eligible to apply for sports bursaries which are awarded each year to those students who have already shown that they have exceptional sporting ability and who wish to achieve further excellence . |
| 15 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 16 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 17 | According to metaphysics , even terminal diseases can potentially be cured , by tackling the emotional blocks , imbalances and negative beliefs which are creating that illness . |
| 18 | Marion has sent out questionnaires to some of the teachers who have used the site-based school packs which were introduced last year . |
| 19 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 20 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 21 | There are several developments which are enabling rapid change to take place in telecommunications . |
| 22 | This drive to help people back to work is equally evident in the success of the Job Search Seminars which were held this year and funded by Employment Services . |
| 23 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 24 | A STRATHCLYDE region official has ‘ unreservedly apologised ’ for remarks linking genetics and the intelligence of Asian and black children which were condemned last week by community leaders . |
| 25 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 26 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 27 | Rods were set up and attached to gaudy plastic lures which were trolled some distance behind the boat . |
| 28 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |