Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The DES survey of Foreign Languages Courses for Adult Students while praising the quality of students ' work as well as the commitment of the majority of teachers confirmed that 52% of foreign language teachers had no training to teach a foreign language at all — although some of them held a general qualification to teach adults ( DES 1988 ) . |
| 2 | In charting the progress of fans ' careers , two types of data have been used . |
| 3 | In this final section I would like to attempt to answer some of the questions raised in the introduction , using the evidence of teachers ' views expressed in the survey to support my argument . |
| 4 | Rising unemployment was important in producing the reductions in unions ' members , funds , and militancy . |
| 5 | The main concern of the chapters on international relations is with facts revealing the changes of states ' attitudes . |
| 6 | As president of the USSR , he signed a special decree , instructing the Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to ‘ place the property of the CPSU under protection ’ . |
| 7 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 8 | Deselected by his party for abusing the register of members ' interests . |
| 9 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 10 | The government banks with the Bank of England , therefore the daily flows of funds between the private and public sectors are reflected in equal but opposite changes in two of the Bank 's liabilities , a flow towards the government , for example , causing a fall in bankers ' deposits and a matching rise in public deposits . |
| 11 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 12 | The considerable expansion of the assisted places scheme is one of the factors contributing to greater inequality , entailing the use of taxpayers ' money to swell the profits of private schools . |
| 13 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 14 | Thus , conditions have been put forward limiting the distribution of voters ' preferences ( e.g. , Plott , 1967 ) , but these are also very restrictive . |
| 15 | You can stand back in practical terms , too — suggesting a couple of hours ' break for people to clear their heads , or that you finish early in order for people to think over proposals and reconvene in the morning . |
| 16 | The pressure group was commenting on suggestions that the Government is considering the abolition of pensioners ' prescription exemptions . |
| 17 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 18 | Dawe 's research demonstrating the importance of pupils ' first language competence to mathematics , as well as the need for pupils to understand mathematical ideas in English , highlights the importance of both languages for children 's progress . |
| 19 | To give a brief example , recording the airflow from speakers ' mouths can show how successfully they are producing the aspiration appropriate for , and . |
| 20 | When we were first creating the model for girls ' work , those of us who are white , both lesbian and heterosexual , developed work that was racist , that is , based on our ideas about how sexism affected white girls , and what kind of provision white girls might need . |
| 21 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 22 | Comparing the estimates with merchants ' prices should be interesting . |
| 23 | Yet with eight sendings-off in all that day there was a case for ending the old year by taking a stand on players ' behaviour in time for the new . |
| 24 | " I 'm taking a couple of hours ' kip . |
| 25 | However , one of the chief difficulties in creating an improvement of schools ' practice at grassroots level is that schools , when faced with the challenge presented by self-examination and with a relatively limited knowledge of available strategies and resources , tend to use the process to reinforce existing ( perhaps inadequate ) practices rather than to seek new , more fruitful relationships between curriculum areas or to develop more appropriate teaching methods . |
| 26 | Cutting auditors ' noses off to spite clients ' faces There are no cogent arguments for radically extending the regulation of auditors ' independence |
| 27 | Conversely , views showing the exteriors of undertakers ' and funeral furnishers ' are less rare , probably the most well-known image being the shop sign appearing in Hogarth 's engraving , Gin Lane , showing a suspended coffin and figure of Time . |
| 28 | But what was this in front on either side of the radiator , carrying the bumpers like gulls ' wings ? |
| 29 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 30 | In summary , our understanding of basic cognitive processes suggests that top managers can have a powerful effect on organization behaviour and direction by reducing the variety in subordinates ' schemas ( core values ) . |