Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four main factors encouraged the decline in employment in the 1980s : first , the concentration of older workers , in many instances , in declining industries ; second , the operation of particular schemes to promote worker redeployment ( eg the Redundancy Payments Act ) or replacement ( the Job Release Scheme ) ; third , the pressure of high unemployment ; fourth , changing attitudes among government , business , trade unions and older people themselves , in respect of the older worker 's right to employment in relation to other younger age groups . |
| 2 | I enjoy reading them all , especially the readers letters section in your magazine . |
| 3 | I close down the port operations office . |
| 4 | So the Center Parcs leisure experience includes playing badminton , squash or tennis wreathed in the fog of a hundred Silk Cuts . |
| 5 | Of all the agencies , only the Manpower Services Commission has had the control of the purse strings that allows positive steering ; with the exception of educational support and in-service training grants administered by the DES , the other agencies ' role has been confined to offering advice and expertise . |
| 6 | Courtaulds Nippon Paint , a 50/50 joint venture between Courtaulds Coatings in the UK and Nippon Paint in Japan , will bring together the coil coatings technology of both companies and will make available to European customers the best Japanese technology and the systems Nippon Paint has developed for providing fast-response customer service . |
| 7 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 8 | On April 4 , 1988 , the then US Secretary of Defence , Frank Carlucci , visited New Delhi to discuss regional security issues and to put together a US arms package . |
| 9 | No gain made by B ; so no capital gains tax . |
| 10 | This latter influence became more pronounced when the Britons took over the George Shanks version of the Protocols , entitled The Jewish Peril , in 1920 , and published the Victor Marsden version , World Conquest through World Government , in 1921 . |
| 11 | The Government will now take over the Student Loans Company , the Glasgow-based firm set up to lend and collect repayments on the Treasury-financed loans . |
| 12 | Opposition MPs mocked the Government 's decision to take over the Student Loans Company as its first act of nationalisation . |
| 13 | No , it 's not the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 15 | Thus a subject headings list is primarily a guide to the indexer or cataloguer in the creation of index records . |
| 16 | The amnesty was largely a public relations exercise , designed to show that the Salvadorean government was serious about its Promise to improve human rights ; new prisoners soon took their place . |
| 17 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |
| 18 | Nationally the Priority Estates Project pressed for devolved budgets and management boards to run council estates ( Power , 1987b , 1991 ) . |
| 19 | Certainly , a low ‘ g ’ sensitive person is liable to become completely incapable of further thought once the aircraft pitches nose-down the first time . |
| 20 | Yesterday a Durham Police spokesman said the consultant in charge of Pringle had told detectives he is to undergo further surgery next month . |
| 21 | Yesterday a Durham Police spokesman said : ‘ The officer searched the area but did not find whoever was responsible for the damage . ’ |
| 22 | LABOUR 'S transport spokesman John Prescott could step in over British Rail 's plans to sell off a Darlington sports ground . |
| 23 | However , in the mid eighties an amazing transformation began starting with an initiative led by the Worth Valley Railway and developed by affiliated groups , namely the Vintage Carriages Trust and the Bahamas Locomotive Society . |
| 24 | Instead of allowing the dog to bark just when a doorbell rings , for instance , such behaviour is tolerated throughout the day and at night , whenever the dog demands attention . |
| 25 | Isaac and Austin Copley set up the rail users group over 2 years ago to complain about poor service on the Banbury London line . |
| 26 | It also set up the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) under the Department of Employment . |
| 27 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 28 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 29 | In 1972 he was appointed chief executive ( second permanent secretary ) to set up the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment and held that position until his appointment as chairman of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations in 1974 , which he held until 1978 . |
| 30 | His somewhat thankless task was to attempt to introduce private-sector techniques into the Civil Service by setting up the Property Services Agency . |