Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 2 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 3 | The pack also includes general guidance for employers and employees on the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders , and an assessment checklist designed to help most employers who have to carry out an assessment of their manual handling operations to do so quickly and at minimum cost . |
| 4 | The postmodern obsession with ‘ surfaces ’ could also link to the more general and growing indeterminacy of the middle classes who need to put on a Goffman-like front in order to impose their ‘ nominative powers ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 6 | But for the 8 million taxpayers who have to fill in a tax return each year , the current arrangements are very far from simple . ’ |
| 7 | The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment . |
| 8 | A CRACKDOWN has been launched on Liverpool council tenants who refuse to cough up the rent in a bid to reduce £18.7m arrears . |
| 9 | The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity . |
| 10 | For users who want to set up a client/server network , the 486/T has all the features of the 486/M range , up to 64Mb of RAM and eight expansion slots . |
| 11 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 12 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 13 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 14 | Mr Outcalt believes that Nordstrom 's shoppers — typically bright , successful types who seem to spend nearly every waking hour with cellular telephones , laptop computers and videos — will accept Nordstrom-style television shopping as readily as they now use bank debit cards to buy their groceries . |
| 15 | Poor bus services have already been identified by new town bosses who want to carry out a full traffic survey with interested bodies , including Lothian Regional Council . |
| 16 | About a dozen protesters , including Labour MP Tam Dalyell , turned out yesterday to defend a 5,000-year-old burial ground from developers who want to put up a radio mast for mobile phones . |