Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain administrative changes at this time appear designed to effect a stricter supervision by the Exchequer over the collection of the Forest revenues , and to lessen the temptation to extortion by the Forest officers . |
| 2 | Well maybe they do , but we take this we always take this as a year on year situation and you 've got to do a longer term comparison if you 're going to get the true effect of the services |
| 3 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 4 | We 've got to find a better way . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ We 've tried to avoid the gorier aspects of hospital life , and focused instead on the doctor/patient relationship . ’ |
| 6 | Some authors have reported finding a greater proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage among strongly , compared with weakly , sinistral subjects ( Satz , Achenbach and Fennell , 1967 ; Lishman and McMeekan , 1977 ; Geffen and Traub , 1979 ) although Dee ( 1971 ) reported the reverse . |
| 7 | Rugby Union officials have decided to take no further action against the All Blacks over the controversial Phil affair . |
| 8 | This may suggest that our ideas about wakes should undergo similar evolution , but recent experiments have tended to confirm the earlier picture . |
| 9 | The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio . |
| 10 | That is because producers have tended to drop the lower-yielding varieties , he explains . |
| 11 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 12 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 13 | ‘ We have got to take a wider view , ’ he said . |
| 14 | So you 've got these problems of balance , and it may be that in these situations Local Authorities have got to take a higher role in providing for their own people , as it were . |
| 15 | Yes and Forest have got to find a better route to goal than that and we 'll find out whether they can in a few moments . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , we have attempted to derive a better index of fetal adiposity than simple birth weight and have found it to have a significant bearing on results of regression analysis , suggesting that maternal glycaemia does have an impact on fetal size independent of maternal weight . |
| 17 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 18 | By asking what conditions would have obtained if particular individuals had behaved differently , they have aimed to give a clearer analysis both of the defining characteristics of holism , and of its relations to individualism . |