Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , the cases and their history were studied to establish what factors or characteristics they had in common . |
| 2 | The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers . |
| 3 | Secondly , directors and managers have interests or aspirations which differ from those of the members , and hence their objectives are likely to diverge from the goal of maximising profits . |
| 4 | A practice is ‘ a set of considerations , manners , uses , observances , customs , standards , canons , maxims , principles , rules , and offices specifying useful procedures or denoting obligations or duties which relate to human actions and utterances ’ . |
| 5 | A recent Private Member 's Bill in the UK seeks to introduce sanctions against persons or organisations who engage in financial dealings with tax havens . |
| 6 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 7 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 8 | There is an alternative method for the design of subject retrieval devices , and that is to build languages or schemes which depend upon some theoretical views about the nature and structure of knowledge . |
| 9 | No opportunity is offered to rehearse any negative thoughts relating to how difficult a situation will be , or thoughts which focus on physical symptoms ( and in doing so exacerbate these symptoms ) . |
| 10 | Although many deaths arise from natural causes , and many others from illnesses and diseases , each year sees a large number of deaths caused by ‘ accidents ’ , and also a number caused by acts or omissions which amount to some form of homicide in English law . |
| 11 | Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded . |
| 12 | … This means that the social traditions , values and attitudes which exist in any society can not be brushed aside . |
| 13 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 14 | Many forms of political resistance and consciousness , feminist , gay , ecological and pacifist , have developed outside of party politics , and have developed analyses and strategies which go beyond traditional class politics . |
| 15 | Yet , these three countries not only have different systems of legal decision making , with Children 's Hearings in Scotland , children 's judges in France and juvenile courts in England , but the philosophies and policies which lie behind these institutions and the nature of the decisions they arrive at are also very different . |
| 16 | There are suits that are better equipped for the more demanding skier and manufacturers who specialise in this end of the market include Nevica , Berghaus , Phoenix , Degre 7 , Powderhorn and SOS who say they are not interested in following ski fashions : ‘ We make heavy duty workwear for people who spend their winters in the mountains . ’ |
| 17 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 18 | Using the term ‘ dialectic ’ means that the process of movement which characterizes human history is not a smooth development but a development caused by conflicts and contradictions which lead to temporary resolutions , like two people arguing with each other . |
| 19 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 20 | They tend to use formal information systems through assistants and secretaries who act as preliminary filters . |
| 21 | The stability of the region led to the creation of schools of artists and craftsmen which spread to other suitable places , southern England and Flanders , for example . |
| 22 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 23 | Coats of arms of the merchants who built the houses four hundred years ago catch the eye , as do those of the guilds and craftsmen who flourished in old Stein . |
| 24 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 25 | There is a principle here for children and teenagers who live in non-Christian homes . |
| 26 | Thus the lack of balance which strikes anyone looking at a thoroughly drained , treeless landscape is reflected in a lack of honest balancing in the books and ledgers which lie behind that landscape . |
| 27 | Amnesty sections all over the world include the Prisoner Letter Writing Campaign cases in the magazines and newssheets they publish in many other languages , from Faroe to Banlga . |
| 28 | Like most other oppressive systems , apartheid education has had an impact on individuals , families and communities which goes beyond economic disadvantage and even political disenfranchisement . |
| 29 | Er I wanted you to maybe describe some more of the responsibilities and duties you had in that job . |
| 30 | Just as there are production companies and cameramen specializing in different techniques and styles and product fields , so you can get actors and models who specialize in specific areas . |