Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real job ( rather than the ideal version articulated by younger men ) is , as we shall see , much less about the application of science and technology to the measurement and control of pollution than the use of negotiating and bargaining skills to secure compliance . |
| 2 | However , the fact that fewer people in low income groups use credit at all means that , of those who do , a higher proportion are likely to be heavy credit users . |
| 3 | Very weakly but it is sufficient to pr prevent them pairing with calcium ions to form precipitate . |
| 4 | The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure . |
| 5 | Most packages now support a full range of European language hyphenation rules making life substantially easier for those working in the international market . |
| 6 | A conference of the eight Arctic seaboard countries — Canada , Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Soviet Union , Sweden , and the United States — on June 13-14 in Rovaniemi , northern Finland , ended with a joint pledge to limit pollution , and calls for the creation of co-operative pollution monitoring programmes covering oil , radiation , heavy metals , organic contaminants , acidification and noise . |
| 7 | The truth is that British agriculture policies defy logic and fairness — they seem more appropriate to the pages of Alice in Wonderland than real life . |
| 8 | Since index futures use cash settlement , riskless arbitrage requires that , if a long ( short ) position has been taken in shares they must be sold ( bought ) at the delivery price of the corresponding index future , which is z in the Warren Cox , Roy Hobbs , Montgomery Brewster and the Scarlet O'Hara examples in Chapter 4 . |
| 9 | They argue that the creation of a market in index futures diverts volume that is not primarily based on information about a specific company away from the stock market , and so the remaining trades in shares are more information-based than before . |
| 10 | Cooper and Mello ( 1990 ) present a model in which the introduction of a market in index futures causes share prices to be less , rather than more , informative . |
| 11 | Ferranti shareholders to meet chairman today |
| 12 | It is important that all concerned understand the company 's remuneration policies to prevent friction between different groups of workers . |
| 13 | Grammar is not just a collection of sentence patterns signifying nonsense , something for the learner 's brain to puzzle over . |
| 14 | It is when ageist attitudes become part of the rules of institutions , govern the conduct of social life , and blend imperceptibly into everyday values and attitudes that they have a drastic effect on the way older people lead their lives . |
| 15 | privilege — does it enable elite groups to dominate patronage jobs ? |
| 16 | Of course individual humanities disciplines make use of more than one of these types of computer study : the student of literary style will make statistical studies of the frequency of the lexical strings and grammatical features identified in his chosen text ; the historian may have occasion to search through and analyse the texts of his primary sources in machine-readable form . |
| 17 | Atlantic storm petrels Hydrobates pelagicus and Leach 's storm petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa are temperate species that breed within the arctic fringe only in Iceland and Labrador . |
| 18 | Subsequent deceleration can be faster than acceleration , because friction torques assist retardation , and remaining clock pulses are therefore issued at half the clock frequency . |
| 19 | BEAM ME UP SCRITTI Tales From The Gartside SUSANNAH HOFFS ' Bedtime Stories U2 : A Classic NME Interview Revisited Hanging tuft KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION GALLIANO THE THEATRE OF WAR SHABBA RANKS KILLING JOKE MOCK TURTLES CUD BLEACH BANDERAS THE CLASH SOHO ‘ Chick ’ Out The Singles ALLIED CARPETS The Inspirals invade the USA |
| 20 | ZENITH ELECTRONICS SIGNS REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT |
| 21 | Drug cops hold race car chief |
| 22 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 23 | However , both the autonomy and creativity groups seek growth . |
| 24 | The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other . |
| 25 | An interesting subsidiary finding was the head-office attitudes to risk assessment described by one interviewee : |
| 26 | It provides full details of the impact of Traidcraft 's activities on the environment : the company operates a levy on the sale of hardwood products to help reforestation and is taking steps to use recyclable packaging . |
| 27 | Though Mr Honey 's detailed computer maps got rave reviews from specialists , fewer than 3,000 were sold . |
| 28 | To summarise , he felt that ( 1 ) a minority of mountain bike riders cause damage to the land and ( 2 ) that therefore you would be opposed to the idea of the path — ‘ the majority must suffer for the misbehaviour of a minority ’ . |
| 29 | The sufferer attempts to gain control by changing his or her pictures of reality to conform to the pictures of perception of how life should be . |
| 30 | Will employers abandon testing when recruiting Compact students ? |