Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be in everyone 's interests to ensure that accounts are taken and valuations made promptly and , perhaps , if the involvement of a third party as independent valuer , arbitrator or mediator is contemplated to break any deadlock , that a time limit be imposed for agreement inter partes. ( b ) Calculation of what is due to the outgoing partner The first and obvious step in the valuation process is the taking of an account up to the date when the outgoing partner dies or leaves the firm , unless that happens or ( except in the case of a death or bankruptcy ) is made to happen at the end of the firm 's normal accounting period . |
| 2 | They can concentrate on fast-moving products ( ie goods that sell well ) , so that stock is not held for too long and money is released to buy more goods |
| 3 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 4 | The large items were cut up by oxy-acetylene torch , and explosive was used to separate some of the steelwork from its foundations . |
| 5 | During the Los Angeles smogs many thousands of people experienced eye and nose irritation , and action was demanded to curb these mysterious episodes . |
| 6 | By section 114 of the Act , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is empowered to transfer many of his functions under the Act of 1986 to a body corporate which is able and willing to discharge those functions . |
| 7 | By March 1991 three orphanages had been renovated and work is continuing to help those youngsters . |
| 8 | It must be recognised , however , that for some people , touching would be an unacceptable invasion of personal privacy ( Turton , 1989 ) , and skill is required to detect this reservation , especially when the person has reduced personal independence . |
| 9 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 10 | People are seeking more consumer goods and business is trying to supply these . |
| 11 | So much knowledge and maturity is required to make this type of choice from a properly informed base . |
| 12 | The consultation paper and video are designed to mean all things to all men — we can not assume that points we support will be retained . |
| 13 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 14 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 15 | With a quarter of the audience tuned in to Radio Hamburg , the reputation of the British press and broadcasting for fairness and accuracy was bound to seem less than established . |
| 16 | Series of interlinking metaphors of chaos and inhumanity are generated to maintain this dramatic mode and ensure that the agenda for control remains firmly with the system , and already I have used such metaphorical terms as ‘ animals ’ and ‘ enemies ’ to indicate some of the ways in which those in power make use of the rich imagination contained in everyday language . |
| 17 | US planes packed with rice , beans , grain and oil were forced to abandon several missions to the western town of Belet Huen yesterday and returned to their bases in neighbouring Kenya . |
| 18 | Sam thought the nails in her finger and thumb were going to meet each other through the flesh of his shoulder , but to his enormous relief , she let go . |
| 19 | The work of Bakhtin has been ‘ taken up ’ in television writing — most problematically in some appropriations of the theory of carnival developed in Rabelais and His World — and the critical vocabulary of the ‘ chronotope ’ and ‘ the dialogic ’ which is developed in his extensive work on literature , culture and language is beginning to achieve some deserved currency . |
| 20 | Both tact and time are needed to effect this , and it may be that fully sighted friends are the best guides . |
| 21 | When embalming a case which has been the subject of a post-mortem examination , there is likely to be more opportunity for formaldehyde to enter the atmosphere but care is taken to minimise this . |