Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , the railway developed its headquarters when there was little money to spare and the buildings inherited in 1960 have been adapted and added to in piecemeal fashion . |
| 2 | Somewhere in the ward a bell rang , once : ten minutes to go before the nurses came round and chucked out all the visitors . |
| 3 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 4 | Colour may be an indication of maturity , but some seeds will probably remain green and it is better to gently shake or tap seed-heads to see if the contents are dropping . |
| 5 | The judge found that the manufacturer 's misleading instructions attached to the goods sold by a retailer was a breach of s14(3) , even though the seller himself did not have sufficient technical expertise to know whether the instructions were accurate . |
| 6 | ‘ That narrows it down a bit , but we 'd need a forensic scientist to establish whether the threads came from Alain 's slacks or not . ’ |
| 7 | This perm only takes 23 minutes to process and the results actually last longer than conventional perms . |
| 8 | Study 4 was an attempt to see whether the effects observed in Studies 2 and 3 were specific to the particular stimuli which were used or whether they can also be observed with a wider range of stimuli and a larger number of responses contributing to the ROC curves to improve the reliability of the recognition measures . |
| 9 | The order is received by the sales office ; checks are made in the warehouse to see if the sub-assemblies are in stock ; a schedule is made in the production department and the products manufactured ; the goods are despatched by the distribution department ; and the invoice typed up in accounts and sent to the customer . |
| 10 | ‘ However , in reality , each vendor has its own technological axe to grind and the results miss the mark , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 11 | The pacta tertiis rule is founded upon the Roman law analogy to contract and the principles of independence , consensuality , and sovereign equality of States . |
| 12 | We all arrived on Tuesday to find that the offices were completely unfurnished , without lighting , without telephone and without any equipment of any sort . |
| 13 | In the Alexander case , unlike the 1985 case , there was no work for the employee to do and the employers did not have complete confidence in the employee anyway . |
| 14 | In particular , it is necessary to go beyond the examples of close relationships to political parties to consider whether the positions some groups enjoy in relation to the political system owe nothing to particular party allegiances . |
| 15 | Community organisations are an essential resource for Partnerships and Compacts to ensure that the needs of girls and boys from different ethnic backgrounds and different abilities are promoted . |
| 16 | In his attempt to determine whether the methods and concepts of ecology and physical geography can contribute effectively to analysis of urban issues in the context of the city as an integrated open system of living things interacting with their physical environment , Douglas ( 1981 ) argues that an attempt must be made to link the city as a habitat or an ecosystem with the city as a social system and he develops an ecosystem approach to the study of cities . |
| 17 | The procedures are being developed by building on existing good practice to ensure that the services offered by the departments within the quality system will be subject to continuous improvement . |
| 18 | We have taken steps to ensure that the circumstances that led to this tragedy can never be repeated . ’ |
| 19 | This means that in practice the local authority first takes steps to ensure that the byelaws which they propose to make will receive approval before making them . |
| 20 | Since awards have such importance for individual candidates , SCOTVEC , as the awarding body , and centres , as the places in which the candidates learn the new skills and knowledge , must work in partnership to ensure that the awards for which we are responsible have the highest possible currency and credibility in the eyes of candidates , employers and other users . |
| 21 | In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives . |
| 22 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 23 | It has been a fundamental aim of this study to argue that the images of working-class youth , and their means of construction were inextricably bound up with the political , economic , social , and cultural issues of the time . |
| 24 | It is upsetting for fans to learn that the creators of one of their favourite records do not like it themselves . |
| 25 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 26 | Listening for the foot to halt and the steps to end there |
| 27 | Anomalies should therefore be checked by panning the soils to see if the resistates are fresh and angular ( eluvial ) or smooth and rounded ( alluvial ) . |
| 28 | So Mr O'Connor asked MP James Paice to visit the village to see if the villagers had a case . |
| 29 | case of the diagnostic tests this model looks reasonably okay , we have n't got erm significant serial correlation , we have n't breached form , we have reasonably normally distributed residuals , right , test for hetero skilasticity that just a test to see whether the residuals are growing over time , right , hetero skilasticity is where we have non constant , non constant variance of our , of our error term right , and very often you , you find that the variance through the residuals , something like that the residuals will look like that , I think , they 're growing systematically over time , right , these are homo skilastic right , and these are hetero skilastic right , residuals and again we would n't want to have a model of hetero skilastic residuals , right , simply because that violates one of the assumptions on which the blue properties are based . |
| 30 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |