Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | Speaking to Record Mirror 's Graham K , she emitted all the maturity of a media mother figure : ‘ I hate that desperation people have . |
2 | These wily chaps have realised that goodwill means having to show it . |
3 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
4 | Erm , and you lose that test data set . |
5 | Unlike all those old spaceships , there is no way you could have done this without using advanced computer graphics . |
6 | ( a ) / ( b ) Weakening of traditional Liberal support , e.g. Welsh nonconformity , Irish nationalism , religious influence less especially in urban areas , failure to support working class M.P.s , weak provincial organization . |
7 | The big chains admitted that house sales could dry up between now and Christmas , as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts . |
8 | Third , purchasers can insist on seeing aggregate audit data , albeit in an anonymous form , to make quality comparisons between providers . |
9 | Lovell ( 1986 ) reviews around a dozen papers which have carried out tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data . |
10 | Reviews of some of the literature on tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data can be found in chapter 1 of Sheffrin ( 1983 ) , chapter 3 of Hudson ( 1982 ) and part III of Pesaran ( 1987 ) . |
11 | It offers high resolution data acquisition for well analysis , using both memory and real time data collection . |
12 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
13 | The two companies paying the highest audit fees remain British Petroleum £7.4m ( v £7.2m ) and BTR £7m ( unchanged ) . |
14 | Because you are using some hospital staff , remember . ’ |
15 | To combat this menace people usually travelled in groups , perhaps from one inn to the next , and they commonly carried arms to defend themselves and carried arms to defend themselves and their property while on the journey . |
16 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
17 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
18 | I personally abhor high pressure sales tactics adopted by Afcor . |
19 | Governments should learn to treat published unemployment statistics with much greater circumspection than was the case in the past . |
20 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan . |
21 | You know it is you do need that quality people who have a bit of insight but got a lot of those |
22 | Ltd. of South Africa , reported that diamond sales fell by 2 per cent in 1989 from a record $4,172,000 in 1988 to $4,086,000 during 1989 . |
23 | The captain has fifty island people to help him . |
24 | These will include Regional employment statistics , a survey of Grampian 's rural industries and analysis of local farm accounts . |
25 | Instead , I phoned Labour Party headquarters and spoke to Mr Whitty , the person in charge of national membership . |
26 | It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output . |
27 | In this way students acquire confidence in using the library and have the opportunity to meet friendly library staff in a pleasant environment . |
28 | I attach some background data relevant to the proposal : |
29 | Look at Rocky — he cost 2 mill £ and he has not played that many games . |
30 | ‘ He 's a monster ! ’ grumbled another mallard duck , joining his friends . |