Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 2 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 3 | The revenue from the tax , currently around £1.2 billion per year , is intended to subsidize projects using alternative fuel sources , but at the moment more than 90 per cent goes to the nuclear industry ( which is why the tax is often called the " nuclear levy " ) . |
| 4 | The framework in which political scientists usually consider these aspects of politics , employing the notions of ‘ political culture ’ and ‘ political socialization ’ , is too narrow to encompass all the relevant phenomena , and it is more fruitful , I think , to start from the conception of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ ( Bourdieu and Passeron , 1977 ) , which has the great merit of emphasizing that the ideas and values shaping political action are not necessarily expressed in an overtly political form , and of relating such ideas and values to the whole social structure . |
| 5 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 6 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 7 | In villages , educational workers would drag women out of their houses to attend mass literacy classes , in others the cadres of the party kidnapped the wife of the mullah on the grounds that , wherever she went , other women would follow . |
| 8 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 9 | Why do some authorities make greater provision for pupils with special needs than other authorities faced with the same Problems ? ’ |
| 10 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 11 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 12 | A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 14 | Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments . |
| 15 | RTMAS integrates three software components : GURU , an expert system ; AUTOBOX , a time-series module ; CROSSTALK proprietary software for transferring traffic count data from roadside counters to the IBM PS2 . |
| 16 | These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically . |
| 17 | Hundreds of couples ignored the new secular ceremony instituted by the 1653 Marriage Act and sought out clergymen to conduct clandestine church weddings for them . |
| 18 | Ecologist editor Nicholas Hildyard commented : " We have long known that World Bank projects bring environmental catastrophe and suffering on a grand scale . |
| 19 | THE Stock Exchange is considering a change to its Yellow Book rules to enable young biotechnology companies to be floated in London even if they are years away from making profits . |
| 20 | By then all the Renault plants had been occupied and students and workers held joint meetings to plan future action at Renault and Sud-Aviation . |
| 21 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 22 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 23 | Each nation is seen as a kind of family , clan or tribe , assuming these entities denote common descent . |
| 24 | Laetacaras make good community fish , general or dwarf cichlid community , but must have sufficient territory if other cichlids are present . |
| 25 | Not only do we need to build up a collection of RBGE staff publications , but we should also ensure that external researchers given significant access to RBGE facilities agree to deposit copies of their publications , reports and theses within the Library as a condition of use . |
| 26 | Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane . |
| 27 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 28 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 29 | Sue Cale demonstrated the art of making hot cross buns using fast action dried yeast . |
| 30 | To accompany the auditory imagery of verbs , the adjectives bring visual imagery , particularly of colour ( 10 ) : red , scarlet , and pink contrast vividly with black , tarred , and ashy , bringing into relief small signs of light or life against the drab and blighted background . |