Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Constant changes in teaching patterns and assignment based learning means standard texts are inadequate , and it is hard to find authors who can produce appropriate material . |
| 2 | Two advance parties , including Lt Col Neame , have already flown to Nepal to organise the 500 sherpas and scores of yaks who will carry nine tons of supplies to the south face base camp . |
| 3 | The 12 winners who will receive these cones are : . |
| 4 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |
| 5 | Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening . |
| 6 | If there 's a vacuum , then there 'll be a few charlatans , a few fools , a few incompetents who will fill that vacuum , because there is a need for people to , to be instant experts on everything . |
| 7 | But the people who suffer , again , are the poor — the shanty-town dwellers who can afford less food because the subsidy has disappeared overnight ; the rural villagers whose primary health post stands empty ; the children who emulate the illiteracy and ignorance of their grandparents rather than their better educated parents . |
| 8 | To forestall rival suitors who might become political enemies , Ernst August and his wife agreed that their eldest son , Georg Ludwig ( George Lewis ) , must marry the girl ; Sophia Dorothea 's own parents were delighted in view of the English royal connection . |
| 9 | Any young singers who would like further information can contact Keith Smith . |
| 10 | They say this would help convince charitable trusts who can give big donations that the people of Darlington are backing the appeal . |
| 11 | So far , the explanation of corporate crime has concentrated on the specific long-term goal-orientated feature of corporations and the personnel who might become suited knights ambitiously pursuing the Holy Grail of profits , and who would , if necessary , be willing to initiate and execute crimes for the good of the corporation . |
| 12 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 13 | They have skilled operators who will ask focused questions and get a complete set of contact and requirement details . |
| 14 | We found that the best were often child care experts who could suggest constructive alternatives , not so often the most senior people in the organisation . |
| 15 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 16 | Amanda Ursell and Sarah Godden are trained nutritionists who can give sound advice on diets . |
| 17 | Essentially all previous studies of the Prisoners ' Dilemma are confined to individuals or organized groups who can remember past encounters , who have high probabilities of future encounters ( with little discounting of future pay-offs ) , and who use these facts to underpin more-or-less elaborate strategies of cooperation or defection . |
| 18 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 19 | This sector also includes outworkers for manufacturing and repair operations , who sub-contract work to do in their own homes or small workshops such as shoe manufacturers ( Peattie 1982 ) ; beggars who are often more organised than they appear ( Ruiz-Perez 1979 ) ; prostitutes ; garbage pickers who can sell various types of waste paper , refuse and bottles ; the living-in domestic servants paid low wages and provided with board and lodging who , according to Lloyd , constitute a category which is included within the informal sector by default ( Lloyd 1982 ) , and others who work on some sort of irregular basis . |
| 20 | The aim is to produce more economists who can handle practical affairs seriously ; more generalists--aware in a rough way of what non economists think--by making it easier to concentrate on particular problems , so that their views may more easily be sought and comprehended ; and more theorists who plan their work in an economic manner . |
| 21 | City explained their case by reporting better crowds at evening games and the fact that they would ease the workload on club officials who would have double commitments on Saturdays . |
| 22 | The hope is that other markers can be identified , which when pooled together will enable doctors to predict , with great certainty , individuals who will develop insulin-dependent diabetes . |
| 23 | The ability to alter dividends is said to give companies more freedom relative to the external dependence on banks who may impose unilateral changes in interest rates or loan allocation . |
| 24 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 25 | Lord Diplock held that the effect of the clause was to define the primary obligations of Securicor : instead of an absolute undertaking to ensure that visits to the client 's premises were made by persons who would exercise reasonable skill and care , they undertook only to exercise due diligence in the employment of staff to make the visits . |
| 26 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 27 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 28 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 29 | Third , effective operational planning of services for individuals would be fostered by the appointment of care managers who would have more flexibility to be innovative and would also work within a clear system of accountability to senior managers . |
| 30 | Taczek was on our books during the fifties and sixties as an informant on the Polish community — what the Polish government in exile was doing , contacts with émigrés who might have useful information and so on . ’ |