Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of direct application of Directive 76/207 has more recently been debated in the European Court in the case of Foster v. British Gas [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 258 , where it was held that provisions of a Directive which were capable of having direct effect could be relied upon by bodies made responsible by the state for providing a public service under state control where such bodies held –special powers ' in relation to such a function . |
| 2 | They argue strongly for the retention of the unitary board , where all directors take collective responsibility for all board decisions . |
| 3 | HH2 — Family run 2 or 3 star hotels where all rooms have private shower or bath and w.c . |
| 4 | It continues : ’ Both suggestions have merit ; to some extent they reflect developments which are already happening , for example in the care of the terminally ill where many nurses have special expertise . |
| 5 | In the United States , where many states have anti-hacking laws , magazines abound on hacking and how to do it better . |
| 6 | For example , a barely detectable innate bias toward the use of body adornment , if combined with a moderate sensitivity to peer usage , would result in most or all members using such adornment in all societies . |
| 7 | Philosophically , it could be argued in any case that most or all words present analogous difficulties , and need to be put in scare quotes ( " the 'topic' of this 'essay' is the 'issue' of the 'author's ' 'intentions ' " , etc . ) . |
| 8 | Is it going to take more men or less men to get this job done ? |
| 9 | Unless the cables are well spaced , or the truck driver keeps absolutely straight , there is a risk of two or more cables becoming tangled . |
| 10 | Has the possibility of two or more employees sharing one post been considered ? |
| 11 | In 1978 , companies with 10000 or more employees performed 79 per cent of the total . |
| 12 | I want to consider , finally , two anomalies : characters using a medium that does n't belong to them ; and two or more characters inhabiting different media simultaneously . |
| 13 | A spokesman , Mr Ian Taylor , said Dillons may have struck a deal with one or more publishers to sell discounted books outside the NBA . |
| 14 | Language is first learned as a means of relating to other people where those others provide social and psychological supports which enable the child to be an effective communicator . |
| 15 | competition for goals , particularly where those goals remain unclear or there is no agreement on objectives or priorities . |
| 16 | Similarly , conferences , where several speakers address many delegates , are also one-to-many , because the speakers act sequentially in the communication process . |
| 17 | The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance . |
| 18 | Now most followers wear black coats and scarlet may be worn by permission of the masters . |
| 19 | There are various stereotype behavioural patterns that children in these families seem tend to adopt when one or other or both parents have primary addictive disease . |
| 20 | He contrasted this with the other type of terminology found amongst speakers of the ‘ Celtic ’ and Semitic languages , where most relatives had separate and unique kinship terms . |
| 21 | Even where both partners work full time , 72 per cent of domestic tasks are done mainly by women . |
| 22 | One reason why some surgeons are reluctant to remove the lymph gland in the armpit is that some women develop subsequent swelling of the arm ( lymphoedema ) . |
| 23 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |
| 24 | ‘ We found evidence that some women received lower pay increases than men even when their performance ratings were the same . ’ |
| 25 | A man called Joffe observed , about 1928 , that some things got stronger when they were wet . |
| 26 | But DES Circular 11/87 exhorts schools to acknowledge that some parents have strong religious or cultural objections to the imparting of sex education by schools and to comply with a request to withdraw a child in such circumstances . |
| 27 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | Preliminary results indicate that some crops suffered extensive foliage damage and yield reduction but others sustained little apparent injury , even under these severe exposure conditions . |
| 29 | Social stratification is , as we have seen , structured inequality in society , such that some strata have more power and reward than others . |
| 30 | Drug laws are shaped by vested economic interest , and the real reason that some drugs remain illegal is to allow the law to intervene in the lives of those the state perceives as threatening . |