Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economics of all such awards are sound : give away a substantial sum of prize money ( preferably the biggest that most seductive word ) , spend a little more on promotion , and , most essential , appoint as judges a judicious mixture of ancient worthies , the current great and good , a television personality or some such , and perhaps a critic or museum man to add some small semblance of probity to the proceedings . |
| 2 | Agency working , again a relatively " traditional " form of temporary working , has also been vigorously rejected by unions , partly because of its association with the fee-charging private placement bureaux ( which many agencies simultaneously are ) to which they object as undermining the public employment service [ see Chapter 5 ] . |
| 3 | Speaker K's contribution ‘ picks up ’ the past time element , moving closer to speaker J's time while maintaining the personal reference in my father , who also did work ( stonemason ) comparable to J's ( bricklayer ) and received money for this work . |
| 4 | I 've seen how Dickie 's pals look when taking the eleven plus , and it makes me so mad , Jo ! |
| 5 | Perhaps what they are doing at present is coming together on issues that are essentially unproblematic and secure whilst leaving the deep differences untouched . |
| 6 | Only when all these questions have been answered will the 12 governments decide whether to recommend the amended Rome Treaty to their parliaments . |
| 7 | Its main function is to attract a female : male cuckoos do not appear to be territorial since the areas over which males sing often overlap as do the egg-laying ranges of females . |
| 8 | It is , for example , little use when recording a chemical spill into an Egyptian river to have entered into the appropriate field ‘ the Nile ’ — after all , this river is some 6480 km long ! |
| 9 | In this situation capital inflows should increase and capital outflows decrease because buying the domestic currency now would provide capital account transactors with a potential capital gain . |
| 10 | The next problem is that of the capital-output ratio , since output is measured as Y in the Harrod model and not W. And the same problems arise when determining the aggregate production function . |
| 11 | Perhaps more fundamentally , we take as given the basic framework of political institutions . |
| 12 | So , for instance , a birth would in all instances have been rated by Holmes and Rahe as entailing a high degree of change . |
| 13 | Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year . |
| 14 | We have described the problems of using data on utilisation of services which we see as offering no reliable way of weighting different indicators . |
| 15 | ‘ Then we attach the new care assistant to a member of staff , not necessarily the most experienced , but someone whom we see as having the right attitude to the residents . |
| 16 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |