Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted above , stipulations in commercial contracts which fix time limits for action by the parties are normally interpreted as conditions , so that a failure to perform on time entitles the other party to terminate the contract . |
| 2 | After two headships in Inner London he sought to keep his provincial school as one which was good at caring for its pupils as well as one which was well organized in providing sought-after subjects on top of the core curriculum . |
| 3 | The majority of candidates in Scottish prisons who start SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules go on to complete them successfully . |
| 4 | When a concerted and invasive effort has been made to find acid fast rods in sarcoid tissue they seem to be present , and acid fast bacteria without cell walls and tuberculostearic acid have also been isolated from lesions of patients with sarcoidosis . |
| 5 | The opposition umbrella organization , the Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) , established links with the parties in eastern Europe which had forced political change there ( such as Poland 's Solidarity ) . |
| 6 | After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again . |
| 7 | But in terms of saying there are easy savings to be found in terms of greater efficiencies in this authority I warn you , we are reaching the level unless we actually want in putting a completely unacceptable level of stress on the people who we employ and who universally serve this city very finely and give such a very high level of service . |
| 8 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 9 | Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars . |
| 10 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 11 | He has just published a profusely illustrated catalogue of fine books in fine bindings which has been described as an important reference work on its subject . |
| 12 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 13 | Yorkshire field their strongest team for years in their bid to redress their relatively mediocre performances in recent seasons which have seen them lose two of the last three encounters against Durham . |
| 14 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 15 | But then the argument would apply to other words in that context which had less bearing on the purpose in reading . |
| 16 | Find words in this list which have the same two or more letters next to each other in the same order . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself . |
| 18 | To gain a clearer understanding of the differences between such schools of thought , and thus to see what the opposition between holism and individualism consists in , it is therefore essential to try to do something that the protagonists in such debates themselves seem unwilling to attempt ; to give a more precise account of the conflicting conceptions of individuals and their capacities that underlie these disagreements . |
| 19 | Good start and I 've found by adopting this approach I 've been able to erm help clients in many areas which has saved them tax or making their money work harder for them . |
| 20 | The main examples of general education planned in terms of the society or culture are the American high school and the polytechnical schools in the Eastern bloc countries , but the model has also influenced secondary education in Scandinavia and the secondary-modern type schools in those countries which have a selective secondary system . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that companies in that area which have proven expertise will be in a strong position to win contracts on merit . |
| 22 | There are specialist companies in these countries who carry out this work and H.O . |
| 23 | ‘ But if any man will read aloud on alternate mornings for a single month a page of Pindar and a page of the Psalms in any translation he chooses , I think I can guess which he will first grow tired of . ’ |
| 24 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 25 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 26 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 27 | ‘ That is one of the exceptions , made by one of the few directors in this country who has huge energy , a great deal of talent and knows how to address an audience . |
| 28 | The elements in modern society which have an elective affinity with ‘ psychologism ’ are industrialism and bureaucracy , which have created a gulf between , on the one hand , the world of work and public affairs , and on the other the private sphere of the family and sexual relationships . |
| 29 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 30 | It 's the old chaps in this country who get to pull on their boots and leave the women behind to a fate of wearing beige coats , having their hair permed and choosing a new tartan plastic cover for the Radio Times from the newsagent when they pick up their People 's Friend . |