Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The military strategy devised to implement successive governments ' Defence policies reflects both long-term national grand strategy and the directions given by the government of the day , and is largely the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff .
2 Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years .
3 The use of data models requires more detailed discussion .
4 This cornucopia of Ireland 's premier arts events includes over 15 nights of opera in addition to afternoon recitals and lunchtime and late night concerts .
5 SAF Bulk Chemicals provides over 70,000 products from stock at its manufacturing and distribution sites worldwide .
6 A comparison of the markings on the faces of these four drinking zebras confirms how different each pattern is in fine detail .
7 However , a large sample of O. smitti shows so much variation in these characters that the type material of O. segesta can not be considered other than conspecific with O. densa .
8 If the prospect of British ‘ bobbies ’ behaving like their LAPD counterparts seems too remote to be taken seriously , we might do well to consider the events of 29 September 1989 when 400 police officers carried out a drug raid on the Broadwater Farm Estate .
9 Refitting the original sealed beam units has now improved matters !
10 Mouse drivers Supports over 20 sound cards
11 Second , the imposition of a wealth tax creates an incentive for wealth holders to seek money returns on their wealth ( otherwise the tax generates a tax liability and no money income to meet it ) and indeed to maximize them ; for example , investment in valuable picture collections looks relatively unattractive .
12 The corruption of the security forces seems straight forward in the beginning , but as the plot unfolds , the facts of torture , a shoot-to-kill policy , and the silencing of information in Northern Ireland seems only to serve as a backdrop to the political intrigue .
13 Today , Homegrown Videos receives about three to five cassettes daily .
14 But the line of cultural development represented by Inca Peru and increasingly by modern welfare states runs quite counter to this .
15 Any reduction in North American grain yields has potentially severe consequences for the world grain market in terms of food shortages , especially for Third World nations with poor purchasing power .
16 The syntheses have been carefully chosen by the author and demonstrate how the unique chemistry of transition metal complexes allows otherwise difficult synthetic transformations to be done efficiently .
17 Gregg 's ( 1972 ) account of Ulster Scots gives overwhelmingly back realizations of /a/ and describes /ε/; as often long in realization ( contrast the very short low realizations in conservative Belfast vernacular , such as [ stap , dzat ] for step , jet ) .
18 But introduction of the TCR- β mutation into the TCR- mutant mice abolishes virtually all DP cells and eliminates SP cells entirely ( Fig. 3 a ) , indicating that TCR -β rearrangement or expression is required for the DN to DP transition , at least in the principal differentiation pathway of αβ T cells .
19 Sale Harrier Kevin McKay , runner-up to Frenchman Pascal Thiebaut , also missed out and , with Peter Elliott injured and Matthew Yates ill , the battle for metric mile places remains wide open .
20 Seating is split level , and the menu features mezes fro two at £19.50 and fish from red mullet and swordfish to fresh squid and whitebait .
21 penetration of the area by larger service vehicles becomes very difficult .
22 Channel 4 's Italian soccer coverage on Sunday afternoons attracts around 2.5 million a week .
23 Compared to the purity of the Taj Mahal — the spotless white marble , the unfussy shapes , the perfectly balanced design — Safdarjung 's tomb with its bulbous dome and stained sandstone walls seems somehow flawed and degenerate .
24 My general view on this matter , as a suitably humble outside observer , is that the student of modem sediments pays too much attention to the way these sediments are laid down , their form and composition , but not enough attention to the question of whether or not they stand any chance of preservation for the stratigrapher of tomorrow .
25 Bearing these two variables in mind , the argument for age effects becomes less clear and Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that age itself may not be an effective predictor of attainment or even rate of attainment .
26 The advantage of pressure and volume relations seems more obvious in globular organs such as the bladder and the stomach by use of a barostat .
27 Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east .
28 UNIX LABS PLANS YET ANOTHER UNIX EVENT — ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS SHOW IN NOVEMBER
29 The nature of contract computer staff jobs imposes substantially heavier work-related expenses upon them than upon agency secretarial/office staff .
30 The use of statistical process control by world class manufacturing companies shows how non-financial information can be used to improve performance .
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