Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 2 | We deeply regret suggesting that farmers , who use around four-fifths of the available water , should be bullied into trading their cheap water with the cities . |
| 3 | Two weeks ago , a one-ton bomb at Canary Wharf failed to detonate although experts have failed to find out why . |
| 4 | Thus , in this view parents as well as children tend to appear as victims and , in particular , working-class parents are seen as vulnerable and powerless vis-à-vis statutory agencies . |
| 5 | Metaphors became mixed and feelings ran high . |
| 6 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 7 | And he has written to Home Secretary Michael Howard demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 8 | He has written to Home Secretary , Michael Howard , demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 9 | The lower-ranking mandarins who agreed to work as interpreters were rewarded with big tracts of good rice-growing land in the Mekong delta , and the idea soon began to catch on that collaborating paid . |
| 10 | Do the answers given suggest that laws are followed because they are agreed with and felt to be right — indicating the influence of informal control mechanisms ? |
| 11 | Civilisation has developed because men and women have continually struggled to master their environment . |
| 12 | If , starting say at c5 , we test to see if pairs of homologous elements give consistent values for |
| 13 | One chairman has commented that tribunals operate a sliding scale of formality . |
| 14 | Any support for the shares from the possibility of a British Labour government 's public expenditure on infrastructure has evaporated and hopes of an interest rate cut on either side of the Channel are also fading . |
| 15 | This was expected to confirm that subjects would be seen uniformly away from the central strip , but , as described above , revealed the two halves to be of different sensitivity . |
| 16 | Some analysts argue that the result is deceptive because only successful beaches applied this year , while others claim that the number of winners has fallen because beaches had to meet a much stricter test on bacteria in the water . |
| 17 | Clearly , the development of futures markets in such countries has to wait until futures contracts are legally enforceable . |
| 18 | Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances . |
| 19 | But over time , the industry has adjusted and farmers there can not claim to be the only farmers in the developed world farming and exporting without the benefit of subsidies . |
| 20 | The Committee on the Safety of Medicines wants to see if warnings issued this year are adequate , the Department of Health said last night . |
| 21 | The institution is expected to wait until investigations are complete and criminal responsibilities are more clearly defined before bringing charges . |
| 22 | Mr Wakerley said : ‘ Are we to believe there is another kidnapper , the kidnapper of Julie Dart , the killer of Julie Dart , who by the purest coincidence used the bridges across the Dove Valley Trail to collect ransom money three miles apart , who stencilled his messages and who thought of using detectors to try to see if police had bugged the money so they could follow ? . ’ |
| 23 | This is a contagious infection caused by mites burrowing under the skin ( mange is a term used for any condition caused by mites which causes itching and results in a mammal losing its fur ) . |
| 24 | Geoff Fear , Supervisor from Pest Control in Chester has succeeded where others failed by securing a significant price increase from a large bakery in Northwich . |
| 25 | A hospital manager has resigned after detectives were called in to investigate the disappearance of thousands of pounds . |
| 26 | Many psychological theories of driving suggest that feelings of risk play an important role in regulating behaviour , either as a quantity to be controlled ( Wilde 1982 , 1988 ) or avoided ( Summala 1976 ) , or as feedback in a learning theory approach ( Fuller 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Rather these books exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms , and they then ask the student , either with a pencil and paper , or in the laboratory , to solve for himself problems very closely related both in method and substance to those which the text or accompanying lecture has led him through . |
| 28 | The fundamental problem facing the Soviet Union is that the discipline which once held the centrally planned system together , however imperfectly , has collapsed before markets have had time to develop . |
| 29 | On , then we 're gon na need to accept that folios ninety two and ninety three are a correct record ? |
| 30 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |