Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 32 | Moreover , national nodes are also being set up ; the recent IBM gift to GRID ( see above ) has ensured that powerful microcomputers have been installed in many African countries , together with national and continental data sets . |
| 33 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |
| 34 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 35 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 36 | It has been difficult to decide on a speciality for the whole country and the Comlon Board has accepted that regional differences may require a change in attitude . |
| 37 | It was pointed out that the Borough Council has accepted that nearby farms have become redundant and the conversion of farm buildings to up-market residential properties has been allowed . |
| 38 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 39 | Richard Dawkins has argued that individual organisms do not survive from one generation to the next , while on the whole their genes do . |
| 40 | The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ . |
| 41 | Gumperz ( 1977 ) , for example , has argued that such variables can be used to invoke domains of interpretation , e.g. to mark transitions from chat to business . |
| 42 | Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems . |
| 43 | Phillipson ( 1982 ) has argued that older workers form a ‘ reserve ’ army of labour which can be recruited in times of labour shortage and discarded during periods of depression . |
| 44 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 45 | Capra ( 1979 ) , himself a physicist , has argued that most physicists , despite the discoveries of twentieth-century physics , are trapped in a pre-twentieth-century way of looking at the world . |
| 46 | Purseglove has argued that Indian crops were known in China 4000 BP and African ones in India and vice versa a thousand years later . |
| 47 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 48 | President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania has said that poor countries enjoy two basic rights : ‘ To sell cheap and to buy dear . ’ |
| 49 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 50 | Although the DoT has said that all options are still open , the consultants are thought likely to recommend the construction of a road from the Chelmsford by-pass to the M25 . |
| 51 | His surgeon has said that two years ' rest may improve the problem significantly . |
| 52 | The right hon. Gentleman has said that those forms were filled in arbitrarily and that they have no substance . |
| 53 | Although Digital has never put a figure on the number involved in what it terms the downsizing of its operations , the company 's president , Robert Palmer , has said that those figures would not be out of line . |
| 54 | Is the Secretary of State aware of the serious threat to standards in schools caused by his spending decision in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where the Cambridge branch of the Secondary Heads Association has said that impending cuts will cause ’ larger classes fewer books , less equipment , reduced sixth form provision and serious difficulty in providing the national curriculum ’ ? |
| 55 | On top of the 2,300 jobs tragically lost at British Aerospace today , the textile and motor trade federations are now predicting 40,000 more job losses this year , the Building Trades Federation predicts that 50,000 more jobs will be lost this year , the Engineering Employers Federation predicts that 70,000 more jobs will be lost , and the Confederation of British Industry has said that 200,000 jobs will be lost in total unless Ministers take action . |
| 56 | Craven has said that Welsh players will still be chased by South Africa in spite of this vote , but the WRU is confident that they have shut off the avenue to the Republic . |
| 57 | The mosque of the sixteenth-century Al-Ghouri , the last of the great Mameluk sultans , is in very poor condition : the minaret has moved and many areas of marble facing are loose . |
| 58 | Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ . |
| 59 | An investigation into drug dealing at the illegal hippy festival held last bank holiday weekend has revealed that dangerous drugs were openly on sale . |
| 60 | The Framingham study ( Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) has revealed that female diabetics have a 4-fold and males a 2-fold increased mortality compared to age- and sex-matched non-diabetics . |