Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 2 | Special gloves and even whole body suits mean the game can be felt as well . |
| 3 | in what ideological terms do these classes or groups perceive the problem of soil erosion — causes , blame , solutions ? |
| 4 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 5 | It is , indeed , difficult to avoid the generalization that while classical tendencies are increasingly becoming the ‘ dominant ’ ( in Jakobson 's sense ) in a commercial system such as that epitomized by US broadcasting , naturalist tendencies remain the dominant in the UK where public-service values retain an increasingly tenuous hold . |
| 6 | The latest facelifts make the point . |
| 7 | On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers . |
| 8 | In Germany employers gain area 2 from the employment of migrant workers , while in the UK employers lose an amount equivalent to the areas 3 + 4 . |
| 9 | At present , black comedy 's screen coverage is limited to The Real McCoy — whose shaky sets and second-rate scripts hinder the scene 's advancement as much as the very presence of the show helps it . |
| 10 | Beyond the woods lay a valley and in the valley a lake , where the ruins of a fine Georgian house were reflected on a clear day . |
| 11 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 12 | The programmes combine the acquisition of a language ( French , German or Spanish ) with study of the basic disciplines traditionally associated with Business and Management . |
| 13 | A million neon signs push the delicacy of the pink twilight into a dull haze . |
| 14 | Whilst such systems are powerful tools for marketing analysis and direct marketing campaigns ( indeed , such profile codings have been shown to be highly predictive when incorporated into credit scorecards ) , the credit marketer should never lose sight of the fact that these are likely profiles and there will inevitably be a small proportion of targeted customers whose actual profiles display a disparity from the system profile . |
| 15 | Liberal theories centre their attention on the almost free-floating power of the Commons , whereas liberal-democratic accounts by-pass the significance of the Commons in order to place a twin emphasis on the government ( the Cabinet and the Prime Minister ) and the people in special relationship each to the other . |
| 16 | So far only one in ten British companies have adopted the code and experts fear the problem could be widespread . |
| 17 | But unless the offers , like £10 off a suit , make enough of us buy , the experts fear the campaign will end up biting into the M&S profit margins . |
| 18 | The environmental groups cite a number of examples of inappropriate use of the funds . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say here that the evidence to support the general proposition that higher taxes undermine the work ethic is largely inconclusive . |
| 20 | However , at the root of the conflicts lay the size or intractability of the problems concerned . |
| 21 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 22 | In contrast , ‘ phalanx ’ growth forms develop a structure of tightly packed shoots ( most of the pasture grasses and some pasture dicots such as Bellis perennis ) ( Lovett Doust , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | I will concentrate on the problem of anaphor resolution , showing how preferential phenomena complicate the task of co-ordinating the activities of various resolution subprocesses , and suggesting solutions to four specific co-ordination problems . |
| 24 | And while it supports common languages well , its compilers lack the maturity of Unix compilers . |
| 25 | Opponents insist the law is having the opposite effect , encouraging new ways of killing the ball in contact situations and increasing the amount of kicking from hands . |
| 26 | Figure 16–3 suggests that income taxes introduce a distortion that leads to a level of work that is socially inefficient . |
| 27 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 28 | Five minutes footage a day is good going and they use only 1 foot of film out of every 15 feet shot . |
| 29 | The smaller projects lack the glamour that the American public and politicians have come to associate with the word ‘ space ’ ; and the larger missions are too expensive for NASA operating on a Reagan-sized budget . |
| 30 | Even petrol taxes make no distinction between where a car is used , or when , which greatly affects the costs imposed on others . |