Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission is making progress on standards to safeguard against RFI , not everyone agrees that international bodies ( or individual governments ) should act to stamp out RFI . |
| 2 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 3 | He said it was ruled by the Id — which is selfish , the Ego — which keeps the Id in check and in touch with reality , and by the Super-ego , which insists that social expectations and duties are fulfilled . |
| 4 | Penrose has suggested that there is some physical principle ( ‘ cosmic censorship ’ ) which guarantees that all singularities lie safely within horizons . |
| 5 | It will be the main task of Part Four of the book to explore the rationality of perfectionist moral pluralism , i.e. of pluralism of many forms of the good which are admitted to be so many valuable expressions of people 's nature , but pluralism which allows that certain conceptions of the good are worthless and demeaning , and that political action may and should be taken to eradicate or at least curtail them . |
| 6 | Writing , this becomes This form is particularly convenient when , which occurs when impulsive waves are present . |
| 7 | ( which also touched upon other problems such as the flooding which occurs when high tides combine with strong winds , and the hydrogeological imbalance caused by fish farming ) made no reference at all to the mortal peril in which Venice stands from a serious fire . |
| 8 | In its simplest form the Graphic Mean , M z is calculated from which assumes that three values alone are sufficient to give a useful mean . |
| 9 | This is the general moral theory first systematically expounded by Jeremy Bentham ( an important figure in penal thought and history ) which says that moral actions are those which produce ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ of people . |
| 10 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 11 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 12 | The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’ |
| 13 | The natural rules for this task have conditions which also include the predicate which checks that two things are different . |
| 14 | The Plaque Remover has been designed with a special brushing time indicator which flashes when two minutes are up . |
| 15 | A typical set of coupon yield curves is shown in Fig. 5.4 , which shows that high-coupon bonds trade at a discount ( have higher yields ) relative to low-coupon bonds , because of reinvestment risk and for tax reasons . |
| 16 | There is , on the other hand , evidence which shows that middle-class patients are more likely than working-class patients to be treated in teaching hospitals , where the standards of service are higher than in ordinary hospitals . |
| 17 | This result conforms to the trend established in previous surveys which shows that Scottish exports follow that of the UK but tend to do so in an exaggerated fashion . |
| 18 | We have taken snap-shots through time and from sufficient height to gain a panoramic view which shows that meaningful patterns are at work . |
| 19 | In the present article we describe an analysis of the evolutionary conservation of SSRP1 which reveals that homologous sequences occur in a number of species including Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 20 | We are required to find the value of given In 1811 , Amedeo Avogadro put forward his famous law which states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules . |
| 21 | The basic postulate of this is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle , which states that certain pairs of quantities , such as the position and momentum of a particle , can not be measured simultaneously with arbitrary accuracy . |
| 22 | The classical theory of gravitation is based on Newton 's law of gravity which states that two masses m , and m2 separated by a distance r feel a mutual gravitational attraction , where G is the universal gravitational constant . |
| 23 | If the theory which states that all errors of law are jurisdictional really does gain general acceptance then the distinction between law and fact will be vital . |
| 24 | Sandbach ( 1980 ) cites a United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) report published in 1976 which states that seventy countries had created central organisations concerned with the environment . |
| 25 | Worldwide evaluation and monitoring of HSE standards for the Group is the responsibility of the Company 's central risk management function , which ensures that regular audits are undertaken and submits any key issues arising to a Committee of the Board . |
| 26 | ‘ Sustainable development involves devising a social and economic system which ensures that these goals are sustained , i.e. that real incomes rise , that educational standards increase , that the health of the nation improves , that the general quality of life is advanced . ’ |
| 27 | In order to study the behaviour of a word it is necessary to have a large number of occurrences available which necessitates that modern corpora contain many millions of words ( Sinclair , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | It is important to distinguish between systems analysis which can mathematically optimize some attribute of the links within and between systems , and General Systems Theory which purports that all systems can be understood by the application of systems principles . |
| 29 | Now , of course , nobody denies that certain processes ( blood flow , neural transmission etcetera ) occur in the brain and that behaviour would be impossible without them . |
| 30 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |