Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designer of any control system should bear in mind that controls influence the way people think , talk , act and react . |
| 2 | The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held April 7 at X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately . |
| 3 | The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held on April 7 at the X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately . |
| 4 | Decentralise control systems , and decentralise the accountants/systems people who oversee them |
| 5 | Introduce the breeding pair into the tank during late evening . |
| 6 | When you connect the ribbon data cable make sure that the drive you wish to be the A : drive ( or the only drive if you have a single drive configuration ) is connected after the twist in the cable . |
| 7 | If we sign a publishing deal in conjunction with a record deal , we usually make the deals co-terminous. so , if we only make one single with a band , we do n't keep the publishing on that act forever . |
| 8 | Yeah we 've got the daily You mean the council staff ? |
| 9 | No wonder people do n't buy it and now , you know I mean the fish sales have gone down . |
| 10 | Our plan was to simulate the view of a vulture by mounting a camera on a model aircraft : we would wait near a fresh lion kill until the vultures started soaring , and then fly the model aircraft among them as they descended on the carcass . |
| 11 | AUSTRALIA top the World Series table after an eight-wicket victory over Pakistan in Adelaide yesterday . |
| 12 | Flies taste with their feet , planaria ( aquatic flatworms ) unerringly follow scents in water , sharks monitor the electrical nervous activity of their prey , knife fish use electrical radar ( three-dimensional echo location ) , electric eels hunt the knife fish by homing in on their radar bleeps , while migrating birds are sensitive to the earth 's magnetic field and polarized light . |
| 13 | Laws and conventions constrain the broadcast media , who may nevertheless reproduce the voices of those who can adopt such a stance . |
| 14 | In the spatial description however different particles occupy the point xj at times t and t + t- respectively . |
| 15 | I forget the name duck . |
| 16 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 17 | The computers process the satellite data to turn them into useful information . |
| 18 | The great , who live profusely The rich , who live plentifully The middle sort , who live well The working trades , who labour hard , but feel no want The country people , farmers , etc. who fare indifferently The poor who fare hard The miserable , that really pinch and suffer want . |
| 19 | If you hook a specimen fish in 1991 then make sure you tell the Mail . |
| 20 | It 's very easy to do all in one separate area combine and put the test data file back in again , but very difficult when scattered about . |
| 21 | He supposed he ought to go and sign on ; let the unemployment people know he was out of a job again . |
| 22 | Last winter 's storm damage pay-outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , threatening to push up house cover premiums ; half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £190,000,000 in the red , compared with 191,000,000 in profit at the same time last year . |
| 23 | Half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £119 million in the red compared with £191 million in profit at the same time last year . |
| 24 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 25 | County treasurer Tim Heald warned that every week 's delay in reaching a decision cost the council £18,000 . |
| 26 | At the Lakeside International Hotel in Camberley , Surrey , this idea alone was credited with saving £3,500 a year — and the system only cost the hotel £3,900 . |
| 27 | This relief cost the Exchequer £1.1 billion in 1978/79 , but is estimated to have reached £7 billion in 1989/90 ( see Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 28 | Prescribing by general practitioners cost the NHS £2.3 billion in 1991 — the biggest single cost after staffing — and the drug bill is now rising at 11% a year . |
| 29 | The waiting time was about six weeks , and each booking cost the NHS £150 . |
| 30 | Operating costs in 1992 were down by some £29 million ( 22% ) compared to 1990 , partly achieved by the continuing redundancy programme which cost the company £1.7 million to implement last year . |