Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 2 | Shirking and the pursuit of managerial goals are generally regarded as forms of behaviour that are socially inefficient , since the former involves the sub-optimal use of resources and the latter , on the assumptions discussed in Chapter 1 , produces allocatively inefficient outcomes . |
| 3 | This is a field which involves rather different skills from those needed for advertising , and some agencies , my own for one , have a separate design department to handle this type of job . |
| 4 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 5 | FACT FILE Flights : Brit Air ( 01-499 9511 ) offers daily direct services from Gatwick to Brest and Rennes ; a special weekend fare to both destinations costs £99 return ( travel out Friday , return Sunday or travel out Saturday and return Monday ) . |
| 6 | This " symmetrical knot " , as it often called , produces extremely compact rugs . |
| 7 | This process can sometimes weaken the pile fibres , but it produces extremely attractive shades of muted red and rose . |
| 8 | Cold inhibits or prevents plant growth and slows down chemical processes in soils , prolonging the period of maturation . |
| 9 | Evidence garnered by reporters either in the courtroom or by pursuit of previous lovers produces highly sexualised stories . |
| 10 | Heliconia , a kind of wild South American banana , produces long hanging stems with lines of triangular spiky flowers on each side . |
| 11 | The habitat of an animal population offers only finite resources for its use . |
| 12 | You will have to be quick , for Lotus produces only small numbers of cars and demand is likely to be high . |
| 13 | IIb produces only luxury goods which are consumed solely by the capitalists . |
| 14 | Part I , dealing with statutory product liability , imposes only civil sanctions , whilst breach of any safety regulation made under Pt II or code of practice relating to price indications under Pt III , does not , in the absence of any provision to the contrary , render the agreement void or unenforceable ( s41(3) ) . |
| 15 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 16 | These two represent two extremes of difficulty : the first involves only initial letters , the second involves going to the fourth or fifth letter to decide on order . |
| 17 | Cockle Button , Cockle Ben , a children 's book he wrote in the 1930s , has remarkably good illustrations . |
| 18 | Each of these new technologies has clear offensive uses . |
| 19 | The important thing is that the whole programme is planned in a way that brings out learning in depth , allowing for sustained involvement with the children , and has clear developing purposes . |
| 20 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 21 | A horizontal model , for its part , has clear educational merits . |
| 22 | The line ‘ My cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ , has clear Christian connotations . |
| 23 | Rose of Lima 's own understanding of this has clear biographical origins which are worth noting . |
| 24 | This very rigid institutional division of labour has rather serious implications in the public law field of decision-making processes , however . |
| 25 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |
| 26 | They make a thing of this strong-box business , but ours mostly has rather dull securities and family papers in it . |
| 27 | It also has rather unfortunate connotations of self-styled guerrilla activists prowling the Dales ready to plunge daggers into the tyres of quarry wagons at night or to fire catapults at drivers daring enough to run their gauntlet during daylight hours . |
| 28 | Even the JCT family of contracts contains widely different conditions and procedures to be followed . |
| 29 | Has conspicuously long wings , with which it soars , wheels and glides like a harrier , in addition to normal slow , flapping owl-like flight , and wing-clapping circular display flight . |
| 30 | At this stage , evaluate unc and solve the eigenproblem unc for M. Then a new approximation , which has mutually orthogonal columns , is |