Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was realized very early on that interactions involving isotropic stellar winds had serious inherent problems involving energy . |
| 2 | Given that groups produce public goods , it is always possible to ‘ free-ride ’ , taking the benefits of group activity without incurring the costs of joining . |
| 3 | Some courts treat these terms in an omnibus fashion ; natural justice is said to be but a manifestation of a broader concept of fairness . |
| 4 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 5 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 6 | The Rent ( Agriculture ) Act 1976 made some attempts to introduce greater security of tenure for tied cottagers . |
| 7 | There were constant discussions , and some attempts to produce new proposals , but all foundered upon the entrenched conservatism of the existing authorities with respect to their boundaries . |
| 8 | It 's amazing how quickly my few possessions become disarranged . |
| 9 | Few Keynesians hold this extreme position today . |
| 10 | Much more attention has also been paid to formal staff appraisal , and every university now has such a system , some institutions employing outside consultants to train the appraisers . |
| 11 | As generations went by , some strategies became scarcer and eventually went extinct . |
| 12 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 13 | This was an important step towards a national health service , though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities . |
| 14 | For example , some woods turn darker as they age , so you may want to take that into account when choosing something very pale . |
| 15 | Yes ! some woods produce little heat and a lot of ash . ’ |
| 16 | Some satellites remain stationary relative to the Earth . |
| 17 | Some forms have delicate exterior skeletons that are only preserved under exceptional circumstances ( see p. 16 ) . |
| 18 | Longest diameter of this specimen is 9 cm , but some forms grow larger . |
| 19 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 20 | Social stratification is , as we have seen , structured inequality in society , such that some strata have more power and reward than others . |
| 21 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 22 | Some employers became aware that the efficiency of the workforce could be increased not only by capital investment and technological improvement , but by ‘ increasing the efficiency of human capital ’ , i.e. by improving working conditions and providing welfare benefits for workers , so that they were both physically stronger and psychologically more secure and hence able to work harder . |
| 23 | The size of the redundancy payment , with its age premium , may have encouraged some employers to shed older workers , the payments being seen as sufficient to sustain a period of unemployment which might last until retirement . ’ |
| 24 | In the banking and insurance sector , for instance , some employers give taxable transfer grants on top of the non-taxable disturbance allowances . |
| 25 | Some planets hug close , hot enough to melt lead . |
| 26 | Very few molecules have electronic transitions below this range , in the IR region , but all molecules have most if not all of their electronic transitions in the far-UV region , above 50 000 cm -1 . |
| 27 | Among the families headed by women , some groups grew more than others . |
| 28 | For example , he says , there have been strong demands from some groups to screen all pregnant women for toxoplasmosis , an infectious disease that can damage the nervous system . |
| 29 | I did n't know anything about the way some birds use warm air currents to help their flight . |
| 30 | And researchers have recorded some birds returning each winter for twenty years . |