Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 2 | The Cuban decision raised immediate fears in the USA that the 1980 officially sanctioned exodus of 125,000 Cubans [ see pp. 30474-75 ] might be repeated , and there were reports that the US navy was reviewing contingency plans to mount a naval blockade . |
| 3 | ANGRY managers have drawn up contingency plans to keep an Essex port running if dockers vote for an all-out strike , it was revealed last night . |
| 4 | However , delays may occur if the authorities have failed to make contingency plans to meet the change in circumstances , and consequently prolonged discussion may be necessary before a decision is made to use particular instruments in a certain way . |
| 5 | It includes communal workshops containing metal and woodworking equipment , and a training room with computer programmes to give the new-starter a grounding in marketing , book-keeping and business management . |
| 6 | These were the introduction of majority verdicts to avoid the necessity for new trials when juries could not reach unanimous verdicts , and the extension of firearms certificates to shotguns . |
| 7 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 8 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 9 | In 1971 Oleg Lyalin , a KGB officer working at the Russian trade mission in London , defected to MI6 and gave enough information about Russian espionage activities to justify the prime minister , Edward Heath , expelling an unprecedented 105 Russian diplomats from Britain . |
| 10 | Recognising his own inadequacy as a general , he appointed a succession of brilliant field commanders to lead the High Elf armies . |
| 11 | Now Scottish Natural Heritage will pay crofters in an area north of Uig — the bird 's last stronghold on Skye — in an effort to re-establish traditional management of enclosed croft grasslands to provide a safe habitat for the corncrakes . |
| 12 | The course attempts to place the study of cultures in a British , European , and wider international perspective . |
| 13 | Nowhere does this manifest itself more blatantly than in the way that the state , in most EEC countries , is allowed by EEC institutions to use the enterprises it owns or controls to act as vehicles for receiving and in some cases dispensing subsidies . |
| 14 | The technique attempts to separate the data structure from the functions for which the data may be used . |
| 15 | The list referred only briefly and somewhat obliquely to classroom practice , recommending ( but not defining ) : a stimulating and challenging learning environment ; flexible teaching strategies to meet the identified needs of individual pupils ; and specific practical help for individuals and small groups . |
| 16 | The Town Trail attempts to link the long history of Northampton and present you , the visitor , with a taste of the heritage which belongs to this handsome town . . |
| 17 | Each database developer tailors its own SQL products to increase the functionality it is able to offer , and therefore gain a competitive edge over rival suppliers . |
| 18 | Each database developer tailors its own SQL products to increase the functionality it is able to offer , and therefore gain a competitive edge over rival suppliers . |
| 19 | Such a hypothesis attempts to describe a whole person , and not to separate certain aspects of an individual 's life for special attention . |
| 20 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 21 | The course writer attempts to cover the experience of the native speaker in about 2000 hours of learning . |
| 22 | He remembered that a flight of twelve B–17s of the 7th Bomb Group were expected from the mainland en route to the Philippines and that the US carrier fleet at sea could send aircraft back to Oahu , so he dismissed the report and told the radar operators to ignore the plots . |
| 23 | Use any pastry scraps to decorate the pies and glaze with beaten egg if required . |
| 24 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 25 | Better Schools is more emphatic in its statement that intending teachers should be given ‘ training and practice in classroom skills ’ , and devotes some space to these — the skills of selecting appropriate materials , varying teaching styles to match the nature of the work and the type of pupil , guiding individual pupils , handling written and oral work , cultivating independent learning , using open and closed questions when appropriate , managing diverse opinions on sensitive issues , setting clear objectives , and so on . |
| 26 | Thus evaluation can be used for decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given course , about the modification necessary for an existing programme , about the use of various teaching methods to achieve a pre-specified goal , or about the adoption of an innovation . |
| 27 | The meeting also resulted in a recommendation to allow toy designers to join the BTG . |
| 28 | Utilising modern technology and traditional hop aromas to recreate the atmosphere of the bygone days spent ‘ Hopping Down in Kent ’ . |
| 29 | As well , the Tigers ' chief political adviser , Mr Anton Balasingham , said the guerrillas would not contest elections until the government drops a constitutional amendment requiring election candidates to swear an oath of allegiance to a unitary state . |
| 30 | The Green Party has issued a challenge to all election candidates to sign a Green Charter setting out the principles it hopes candidates will adopt . |