Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [is] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | By March 1991 three orphanages had been renovated and work is continuing to help those youngsters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | People are seeking more consumer goods and business is trying to supply these . |
| 8 | So much knowledge and maturity is required to make this type of choice from a properly informed base . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |