Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 2 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 3 | Alan is also series editor for the New Perspectives series , and the Oxford Supplementary Skills series . |
| 4 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 5 | Mr Widmer Bus company to sue councils over ‘ £800,000 debts ’ A bus company is to sue three Cleveland boroughs over what it claims is almost £800,000 worth of unpaid debts . |
| 6 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 7 | Total research income for the department is around £1.5m pa from a wide variety of sources . |
| 8 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 9 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |
| 10 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |