Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activities drawing together staff and governors from several schools reduce the tendency for cut throat competition and encourages collaboration in joint policies and alliances to bring pressure on resource providers for a better service . |
| 2 | These operations bring out effects of many kinds and on different levels of abstraction : high-quality or low-quality products or services ; radically new products or only small improvements in the old ones ; high or low job satisfaction among employees ; commercial profit or loss . |
| 3 | Experts ruled out equipment failure as a million-to-one chance . |
| 4 | There is also a National Council for Urdu Teaching , formed from two previously existing working parties in 1984 : its termly meetings bring together colleagues from a number of different areas . |
| 5 | THERE are four reasons given why women 's testimony is not valid in a Saudi court : |
| 6 | Few hats hanging on OSF/1 peg |
| 7 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 8 | In some instances Community law itself may permit or require Member States to carry out inspections or take other measures , but it is now clear that the Council or Commission may not authorize a Member State to take measures which go beyond those which would be justified under Article 36 . |
| 9 | With a great heave the black claws ripped away Bill 's scalp , his face split from top to bottom revealing the three demonic masks of Hades rising from within . |
| 10 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 11 | One must look behind the legal forms to see how offices were filled in practice . |
| 12 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 13 | • use disclosing tablets to see where brushing is inadequate |
| 14 | Timber sales generated an income for the FC of £84.8 million in 1991/92 , with other operations bringing in £21.7 million . |
| 15 | Government relied on its house-building campaign , postponing action on slum housing , though calling for more information from local authorities to carry out surveys of their areas . |
| 16 | BR has joined forces with 15 local authorities to carry out improvements to the trackside view on key routes . |
| 17 | It is hoped that mines placed about 600ft below the new fissure will create depressions to contain or restrain the lava and disperse the flows into rivulets which could cool quickly , slowing it down . |
| 18 | Last year exports equalled nearly 160% of the country 's GDP . |
| 19 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |
| 20 | In order to allow EC member states to agree how triangulation supplies should be separately identified on EC sales listings , businesses using the simplification option need not disclose details of their triangulation supplies during the quarter ending 31 March 1993 until they complete the statement for the quarter ending 30 June 1993 . |
| 21 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 22 | The threat comes from plans to contract out services to the private sector . |
| 23 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 24 | Only twenty minutes to go then Ann . |
| 25 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |
| 26 | We spent hours mulling over maps and descriptions of countries . |
| 27 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 28 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 29 | INSTEAD of surveying prisoners to see how life in jail can be improved , the authorities should talk to ordinary , law-abiding folk who live in fear of crime . |
| 30 | Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour . |