Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were on Oh and there was the er where the Midland Bank is , there was a cafe there and they sold odd things you know . |
| 2 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 3 | Open-market operations ( the purchase and sale of money market securities by the Bank of England ) can have a number of effects : in the short term it can have the effect of tilting the yield curve both upwards and downwards ; in the longer term , by leading to changes in the money supply , it can influence inflationary expectations which in turn can affect the level of the yield curve . |
| 4 | If they make stable contacts they pull the sheet to the site of contact , but others merely lose contact and are withdrawn . |
| 5 | But humbly regret that the Gracious Speech seeks to continue economic policies which have caused a deep and damaging recession , falling output and investment , rising unemployment and record levels of business failures and house repossessions ; and call upon the Government to adopt a programme for recovery which will encourage investment and rising levels of employment by the promotion of sustained investment in the manufacturing sector , by encouraging industrial innovation through the application of science and technology and by fully exploiting the potential of the neglected regions through vigorous regional policies , and by providing new opportunities in education and training which are crucial to Britain 's economic recovery and future prosperity . |
| 6 | To minimise borrowing rates and maximise investing rates you should always get more than one quote , a simple rule but one often overlooked in the pressure of events . |
| 7 | Inadequate light produces weak plants which shed their leaves very regularly . |
| 8 | When the new manager arrived at Highbury he made administrative changes which deprived Arsenal 's fifty voluntary workers — mostly schoolteachers acting as stewards and programme sellers — of various perks . |
| 9 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
| 10 | By the time of the Middle Ages when the two swords of the secular and the spiritual were sheathed together in ruling Christendom , the official spokesman for orthodoxy , St Thomas Aquinas , could declare : ‘ Heresy is a sin which merits not only excommunication but death , for it is worse to corrupt the faith which is the life of the soul than to issue counterfeit coins which administer to the secular life . |
| 11 | Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization . |
| 12 | Woollett ( 1981 ) has shown not only how rural people can provide their own alternative services but can also further extend them , and Clark ( 1980 ) has argued that if we want to sustain rural services it will have to be by self-help . |
| 13 | Language is not merely a neutral medium for the conveying of information ; it can trigger emotional responses which may spring from prejudice , stereotyping or misunderstanding . |
| 14 | She stood out of the way of a party of scantily clad Scandinavian women who were leaving , then waited while her eyesight adjusted to the contrasting darkness . |
| 15 | The point at issue is , then , that companies are able to make choices which have important social consequences : they make private decisions which have public results . |
| 16 | Even before the 1867 premiere of his most sublime opera , Verdi made extensive cuts which were rediscovered in the early 1970s and restored by Andrew Porter , whose English translation is being used here . |
| 17 | These tests will also determine whether or not the microorganisms will completely mineralise the waste , as opposed to producing metabolic intermediates which may be more toxic that the original compound . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 19 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |
| 20 | Galwey and Popplewell , and to an extent O'Hara and the much-maligned Francis , produced outstanding performances which , if repeated against Wales and England , could secure them tickets for the trip to New Zealand . |
| 21 | Also , from his many comments about violent reactions to remedies , the sensitive patients he saw , were producing undesirable aggravations which he constantly sought to escape from . |
| 22 | He blames the media partially for this , with its concentration on issues with populist emotive appeal and its failure to publicise low-key developments which will benefit people on a day-to-day basis . |
| 23 | A warrior king , he patronised Scandinavian skalds who celebrated his victories in poems which had their roots in the world of the pagan gods and heroes . |
| 24 | We recruit junior pursers who undergo a three month training programme aboard one of our cruise ships . |
| 25 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 26 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 27 | The Kha-Khan wanted to see some prisoners who were taken near Pesth . |
| 28 | In response to the setting up of the " constitutional " government , the Fujimori government authorized sentences of between four and seven years for dismissed public officials who refused to relinquish their posts or for those who took up office , performed duties or issued orders without due authorization . |
| 29 | In the years since 1945 , Japan , unlike many other industrial nations , has received few immigrants whose presence might modify this sense of ‘ being Japanese ’ . |
| 30 | During these same revolutionary years , others took advantage of the breakdown of press censorship to publicize doctrinal positions which were far more unorthodox . |