Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allocation of resources — Resourcing was a matter of concern , both the resources devoted to care programming and the way in which care programmes effectively allocate resources . |
| 2 | His long , thin musician-fingers deftly manipulate wires and crystal . |
| 3 | However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education . |
| 4 | As this model would predict , individuals in Belfast whose personal networks were closeknit tended to approximate closely to the stigmatized vernacular norms characteristic of the locality , which like other ‘ in-group ’ norms powerfully symbolized values of solidarity , reciprocity and to some extent opposition to standardized norms along with their associated values . |
| 5 | Similar in appearance are the cathedral corals , ( Sinularia species ) which are often purple in colour , and have fingerlike projections rather thank ridges on the polypary , thus being morphologically halfway between the encrusting leather corals and the bushy , tree-like soft corals , many of which are also species of Sinularia . |
| 6 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 7 | In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer . |
| 8 | Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe . |
| 9 | This 2 week deferment period must be added to the compulsory 2 week deferment for hazardous activities eg winter sports , making benefit payable there from the 29th day of incapacity . |
| 10 | The story can , of course , be extended to include ligatures — they are the double letter combinations such as fi , ff , fl , etc but as most PostScript fonts only support fi ( Option Shift 5 ) and fl ( Option Shift 6 ) this may be a little picky . |
| 11 | Threadworms only affect humans , they do not affect pets . |
| 12 | This enables the data to be searched for patterns so placing theories within the constraints of empirical evidence . |
| 13 | So many dog training clubs only take dogs when they are six months old … well past the steep part of the learning curve and often at an age when male dogs , especially , are starting to grow up ( and become as rebellious and resistant to authority as any human adolescent ! ) . |
| 14 | Share values are assumed to reflect the stream of future earnings obtainable from them , but the future is unknown ( though shareholders naturally have expectations ) . |
| 15 | Surely ( so the argument might be continued ) the interesting cases of knowledge are those which permit meaningful questions about criteria , and such cases necessarily involve states of affairs that are in some sense publicly accessible . |
| 16 | But a curious deterrence this , which aims to restrain states only to unleash peoples , to intensify rather than mitigate conflict and make the world safe for revolution rather than order . |
| 17 | On the other hand the expert will not have had the benefit of hearing the arguments , and some observers have suggested that expert valuers rarely assess rents from the tenant 's point of view . |
| 18 | Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket , fists clenched inside the pockets , eyes little worry beads of suspicion . |
| 19 | Many ammonoids additionally carry spines , warts , tubercles or lumpy excrescences , so that the large shells can look positively burdened with sculpture . |
| 20 | The operations of insider traders effectively cause losses to market-makers with whom they deal . |
| 21 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 22 | The problem is a very real one , because most speakers constantly simplify words phonetically in the stream of speech ( see Brown , 1977 : ch. 4 ) . |
| 23 | Gazing from the window of the taxi , she watched the small groups of tourists , many of them from the ship , strolling in and out of shops eagerly purchasing souvenirs . |
| 24 | The people are more expansive in their complaining , but their words merely combine elements by now all too familiar . |
| 25 | However , modern computers obviously enable problems of much greater variety and complexity to be tackled . |
| 26 | The economic problems , the exhaustion brought by war , and divisions between the political parties all caused difficulties for de Gaulle . |
| 27 | The family had put out the items including tea services and Georgian candlesticks so house guests could admire them over the New Years holiday . |
| 28 | Thus , as in development , the interplay between organism and environment during evolution is not a one-way process , by which environments constantly set challenges to organisms which they either pass ( reproduce successfully ) or fail ( die out ) . |
| 29 | His close-set eyes daily reviewed documents which would otherwise only be seen by perhaps half a dozen people — up to and including the President himself . |
| 30 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |