Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) .
2 The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized .
3 When considering their applicability to particular organizations it is necessary to heed Clegg and Dunkerley 's warning that we should not assume that power resources will have equal utility to the members of all organizations in all situations .
4 But you should not assume that college teachers are all professionally-trained teachers .
5 There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought .
6 This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations .
7 You may not think that access cards for greater access are a good idea , but what are you proposing should be done to double the age-participation rate in this country ?
8 Anyone under 21 might not realise that Rod Stewart was not always a smug , smarmy middle of the road crooner .
9 I could only hope that Father Christmas had one up his sleeve for me !
10 Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed .
11 Of course , it could simply mean that winter foetuses might not get the same diet as others .
12 The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing .
13 Since bilateral speech need not imply that speech functions are distributed equally between the hemispheres this does not necessarily conflict with the finding that the proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage was highest among the strongly left handed .
14 That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past .
15 More investigation may well reveal that manufacturing industry simply did not pay enough to get the best people .
16 For example , a project engineer might estimate how many drawings would be necessary to describe the works to be constructed and may well find that cost increments of £1000 are significant in controlling drawing production .
17 Brushing aside Allen 's pleas not to ‘ take as selfish view of Socialism , a national view ’ , Wheatley argued that the ‘ Living Wage ’ strategy would only work if import duties were introduced to prevent foreign capitalists , employing sweated labour , from reaping the benefit of the increased demand in the British economy .
18 Increases in producer prices were announced for tea ( up 75 per cent to Sh35 per kilogram with immediate effect ) and grade A cotton ( up 63 per cent with effect from December 1989 ) ; coffee prices would not change until world prices improved .
19 Although it is possible to ‘ hedge ’ against this risk by operating on the ‘ forward ’ market , this involves traders in additional costs which would not exist if exchange rates were fixed .
20 We shall also assume that nucleosynthesis calculations imply , where , and where b is the mass-density of baryonic matter .
21 Such a resolution would also establish whether impact craters and volcanoes exist .
22 Social services staff would also argue that health authorities can move people quite quickly — even precipitately — from hospital to residential care with limited preparation and with little need to negotiate with emotionally involved parents and carers .
23 But the author I would particularly recommend if farce crime fiction attracts you is Colin Watson , with his stories of life in the imaginary provincial town of Flaxborough .
24 For example , the Maldives in the Indian Ocean consist of 1196 atolls inhabited by 177,000 people , and they would virtually disappear if sea level rose by just 1 metre ( Boyle and Ardill , 1989 ) .
25 We would therefore argue that housing conditions are more important to them and their needs broader .
26 According to this synthesis , Keynesian unemployment was a phenomenon which was primarily attributable to downwardly sticky money wages and prices , the obvious implication being that general unemployment would never arise if money wages and prices were perfectly flexible downwards as well as upwards .
27 Obviously we shall never know whether fossil species were capable of interbreeding until somebody invents a time machine , and we can go back and see for ourselves !
28 Britain points out that the Bush Administration is still using its political weight in the IMF to block financial relief for Vietnam , even though it is widely recognised that the exodus from Vietnam will only stop when living standards improve .
29 Marshall admires The Wedding Present , but their position of strength will only last while record sales are healthy .
30 He will also know that manufacturing investment actually rose in the third quarter of last year .
  Next page