Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge of competitive products offers several advantages . |
| 2 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 3 | ‘ It might be okay for some people , like thae toffs that mammy cleans for , but it 's nae use for the likes of us . |
| 4 | Similarly , the drawing with the older person of a family tree to collect information about family composition and contacts has several advantages over the more traditional methods of information gathering . |
| 5 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 6 | The pursuit of localism as a phenomenon within state organizational cultures reinforces these tendencies . |
| 7 | The Community practice of stating reasons in the recitals has many advantages . |
| 8 | Megarry J in Spens v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 276 at p285 stated : … where a trustee who receives income from investments holds those investments on trust for a life tenant , each sum received by the trustees is for surtax purposes the income of the life tenant as soon as it is received , for it is forthwith under the life tenant 's control . |
| 9 | She will be expanding her world travel experience and in between times has many interests in and around Glasgow . |
| 10 | It may be that the policy of differing rates of support for different categories of residential and nursing homes clients encourages some specialisation. b Literature A survey of registered nursing homes in Edinburgh showed that about 70% of residents suffered mild , moderate or severe dementia , but figures varied from home to home , indicating differing practices , not necessarily related to the declared policy of the homes ( Primrose and Capewell , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | I would suggest that at least three months separates each flock to obtain good continuity . |
| 12 | The profound neglect of psychological , social and political considerations renders such treatments shallow and incomplete . |
| 13 | Knowledge that sample results are not unproblematic indicators encourages some staff , when confronted with marginal cases where the pollution is not particularly noticeable , to adopt a degree of tolerance : |
| 14 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 15 | Make sure that no instance of her tantrums receives any reinforcement ! |
| 16 | However , there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on . |
| 17 | None of the beneficiaries has any interest in the property — except in respect of income on capital actually paid to him . |
| 18 | On its shoulders stands another pair of nozzles , which cast an altogether more subtle spell . |
| 19 | The government 's enthusiasm for roads and motor cars worries many people . |
| 20 | Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light . |
| 21 | a separation agreement which contains no financial arrangements in a case where no other agreement in writing between the same parties contains such arrangements . |
| 22 | This paper was probably circulated amongst those interested and Miller 's advice followed , as the Register of Premiums and Bounties of the Royal Society of Arts contains many awards for the cultivation of madder , particularly in East Anglia and Kent , during the years 1755–67 . |
| 23 | The Song of Songs contains these words : ‘ I slept but my heart was awake . ’ |
| 24 | An analogy with what happens in digital computers illustrates this point . |
| 25 | The Association of Business Sponsorship of the Arts says many sponsors are uneasy that they are expected to replace , rather than supplement , government grant , and a fall in sponsorship is feared . |
| 26 | Finally , the decomposition of managerial hierarchies allows some managers to specialize in strategic decision-making and for this task to be performed by people who not only possess a relevant comparative advantage but also whose corporate loyalties are not compromised by undue devotion to narrow functional goals . |
| 27 | Anyway , news reaches me of how the most loyal of husbands handles this kind of situation without falling unconscious at the table . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 29 | Secondly , the earlier reference to NAEP 's consensual goals reveals another problem with goal-setting . |
| 30 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |