Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 2 | The second is the complexity and sophistication of modern weapons systems themselves : each containing a sufficient number of different component technologies to ensure that progress , by and large , remains incremental rather than revolutionary . |
| 3 | However , bioceramics based on calcium phosphates show excellent reactions with bone and there is normally little or no fibrous layer at the bone ceramic interface . |
| 4 | There is evidence from HMOs that higher income groups gain greater health benefits from the system than do lower income groups ( Ware , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | It shows that in England and Wales the lowest income groups paid 8.1 per cent of household income in rates , whereas the highest income group paid under 2 per cent . |
| 6 | It has been suggsted that only soluble calcium ions precipitate fatty acids and bile acids , thus reducing their lytic activity . |
| 7 | The response times , as measured at the central computer , show that there were no days in April when response times exceeded 2 seconds . |
| 8 | His decision at the outset of the election campaign to disclose his Budget plans drew intense Conservative fire and reinforced Labour 's reputation as a high-taxation party . |
| 9 | The report recommends that First and Second Division clubs have all-seat grounds by August 1994 and Third and Fourth Division clubs by August 1999 . |
| 10 | Bradford 's decision , together with Salford 's installation of Kevin Tamati last week , means an unprecedented half of the first division clubs have overseas coaches . |
| 11 | Government officials in Dublin warned that they will make an official complaint to the European Commission if they find proof of claims that Britain used the lure of £400 million worth of lucrative defence contracts to persuade Digital to retain Ayr at the expense of Galway . |
| 12 | For as the somewhat disappointing fruits of big , centralised curriculum projects become apparent , as the essential human and uneven character of curriculum development comes to be appreciated , more and more systems are seeking alternatives . |
| 13 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 14 | Elite performers earn that title because they are , by nature , not good losers . |
| 15 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 16 | Second column , and it is the second paragraph , where it says to provide contingency plans to improve seven section , seventeen budget by two hundred thousand pounds . |
| 17 | The cumulative effects of off-duty allocation on the whole unit should be identified so that contingency plans to meet unexpected staff shortfall can be formulated . |
| 18 | The right-wing daily Nowy Swiat on April 9 claimed that contingency plans to introduce martial law in Poland in the case of a threat to security had been elaborated by the President 's staff . |
| 19 | Some are already working on contingency plans to make sure patients in the North-East are referred for treatment . |
| 20 | This time , their leaders are back in office and are promising lower income taxes to give domestic spending a boost if the country votes Yes . |
| 21 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 22 | The tent riggers looked surprised and mystified as three strangers started to lend their muscle to the ropes . |
| 23 | Only six out of 21 case notes contained objective evidence of asthma and 12 contained clear evidence of an alternative cause of death ( myocardial infarcation ( 7 ) , epileptic fit ( 1 ) , lung cancer ( 1 ) , lobar pneumonia ( 1 ) , chronic obstructive airways disease/emphysema ( 2 ) ) . |
| 24 | New EEC rules change light dues |
| 25 | The Authority 's curriculum policies produced various responses from heads and teachers . |
| 26 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 27 | But the consignor , had to settle for the $750,000 ( £468,750 ) Berry-Hill Galleries paid this time . |
| 28 | The four companies will integrate mainframe and personal computer technologies to provide fault-tolerant open systems platforms for 24-hour-a-day processing of patient records , insurance claims , lab data and the like . |
| 29 | The emerging motility patterns showed three basic types of wave , based on amplitudes — low amplitude contractions ( LAC ) measuring <60 mm Hg , medium amplitude contractions ( MAC ) of 60–100 mm Hg , and high amplitude contractions ( HAC ) of 100–200 mm Hg . |
| 30 | The ISS curriculum proposals aroused less controversy in ILEA than those of TNC in part because of the very different curriculum philosophy within which the proposals for the fourth and fifth years were set . |