Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A library , like any other organisation , has a limited amount of manpower and money to carry out the activities required and expected of it ; training is just one way of ensuring that these resources are used in the most effective possible manner . |
2 | ‘ If a rusty water pipe bursts it takes an enormous amount of time to find the money to carry out the repairs . |
3 | Profit taking among construction groups wiped out the gains made in the wake of the Chancellor 's speech . |
4 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
5 | The European Commission 's COMETT programme is aimed at high-level technology training , and its projects bring together the providers and users of training . |
6 | Only after years of dogged activity by tenants backing up their own experiences with systematic surveys , did local authorities bring in the experts , and the tenants were right all along : they were living in leaking , sweating , unstable structures . |
7 | Only migratory birds sought out the marshes — in late summer on the way south to warmer climes and in early spring on the way north to breeding grounds . |
8 | Yet exactly the same trait , if too high , can disrupt and disable , in some cases bringing about the symptoms of anxiety neurosis . |
9 | Their original term was to be twenty-one years , though extension was usual , and few restrictions were imposed on the trusts ' powers of raising capital on the security of the tolls , on their use of it , or on the appointment of toll gatherers , nor on the freedom to contract out the tolls at auction . |
10 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
11 | A second dimension to real co-ordination involves only the donors , whose policies outside the aid arena may conflict with those within it . |
12 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
13 | In relation to Chloe , Pauline and Dan lived out the conflicts of their own adolescence . |
14 | Police procedures change , and even police attitudes change over the years . |
15 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
16 | I 'd blown it , and I stood on stage in a semi-circle with the rest of the acts and an artificially bright smile , while the compère read out the marks awarded to each act by the three judges . |
17 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
18 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
19 | But builders fear neither the Tories nor Labour could find the money for the much bigger public works pro gramme needed to get construction moving . |
20 | and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool . |
21 | 13 May — A Movement Accompaniment Day run by and , which will also include an opportunity to try out the machines in the Fitness Centre . |
22 | Neutrality on a subject like male prostitution ( Masculinity NI 175 ) and child absue ‘ men bring their 12-year old sons to try out a travesti ’ is a political cop-out . |
23 | Although the links and influences of one upon the other are far from clear , it is not irrelevant to an understanding of the accounts to know how the pupils represent the character of their community . |
24 | Although this is not the same as decay or rotting , it can weaken the joints if the splits appear where the fixings are . |
25 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
26 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
27 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
28 | Roger starts off the celebrations with spaghetti Bolognaise on Christmas Eve . |
29 | She smiled , and her heart beat away the seconds , tick-tock , tick-tock , tick-tock . |
30 | Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good . |