Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 2 | The animals ' food often contains toxic test substances or they may be forced to swallow huge capsules or have toxic creams rubbed into their raw skin . |
| 3 | And it shows how a new and larger loan made to clear past debts or consolidate several separate debts into one can do the same . |
| 4 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 5 | Where a project requires technical expertise it may also be necessary for the company to recruit suitably qualified personnel or seek outside advice if the expertise is lacking , both at the outset and during the course of the project . |
| 6 | This makes any comparative analysis of data recorded at different times or using different aggregation units problematical . |
| 7 | Can embargo be a useful instrument to protect lead times or influence Soviet policy ? |
| 8 | The same individual may suffer from both conditions at different times or have some features of both conditions at the same time . |
| 9 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 10 | US and British citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 11 | You are unlikely to find a series of fronted objects or complements similar to the series of fronted temporal adjuncts quoted above . |
| 12 | Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate amounts of administrative and accounting time . |
| 13 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
| 14 | According to the report , the New York-based Lawyers ' Committee for Human Rights had obtained evidence that the 17 had been charged with " vague and broadly worded offences " under a 1965 government decree which outlawed actions " opposing any of the goals of the revolution , or advocating any disorderly acts or publishing false news with the aim of causing disorder " . |
| 15 | Under this power , action can be taken against any development ( or use ) whether it was specifically permitted under the postwar planning acts or established prior to them . |
| 16 | OSF 's security provider , SecureWare Inc , is bankrolling a start-up and sharing its president with it : Advanced Software Engineering Technologies or ASET Inc is doing a user interface management system dubbed Agora . |
| 17 | to acquire new practical or cognitive skills or to update existing skills . |
| 18 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 19 | In Lewes , as in many other Sussex towns , the patriotism of the Bonfire displays , heightened during the wars with France , could spill easily over into a week of repeated apprentice riots , with the participants throwing bricks through the windows of unpopular employers or threatening personal violence and arson . |
| 20 | The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net . |
| 21 | ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel . |
| 22 | Erm certainly we 'd not anticipated that it would outweigh existing structure plan policies or outweigh existing Policy E two . |
| 23 | And illustrate acceptance of the need to keep their own skills and knowledge up to date through participation in education activities or training appropriate to their role in industry . |
| 24 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 25 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 26 | The standard also leaves room for mains powered home recorders , on the same format , which will offer enough playing time for enthusiasts to tap television programmes or watch pre-recorded films . |
| 27 | The continuing squabble among Ministers over whether to raise taxes or cut public spending in November to tackle the budget deficit has triggered a new outburst of Tory in-fighting . |
| 28 | The reason for the deficit was the enormous increase in government expenditure and the inability of the government either to increase the rates of existing taxes or raise new taxes . |
| 29 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 30 | In the analysis outlined above , it should not matter whether a central government cuts taxes or gives lump-sum grants to local authorities . |