Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 2 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 3 | Where restrictive covenants and rights of way appear to have lapsed and extensive investigations fail to locate any individual able to enforce or enjoy the benefit from such rights , it is possible to take out indemnity insurance against the remote possibility that anyone emerges with the legal right to enforce the covenant or right of way . |
| 4 | It often manages specific projects designed to develop all aspects relating to the development of occupational standards , which would usually include : |
| 5 | Age-old enemies have accepted that compromise is the only peaceful way forward . |
| 6 | Changing agricultural policies have transformed former wintering grounds , bordering the Caspian Sea , into cotton fields — which are shunned by the geese . |
| 7 | Working groups hope to reduce all road casualties by a third in the region by 2000 . |
| 8 | A number of studies with normal subjects have shown that ear ( McFarland , McFarland , Bain and Ashton , 1978 ; Kelly and Orton , 1979 — but see Lambert and Beaumont , 1982 ) or visual hemifield asymmetry is negligible or reduced for concrete highly imageable words as compared with abstract , non-imageable , words ( Ellis and Shepherd , 1974 ; Hines , 1976 , 1977 ; Hatta , 1977 ; Day , 1977 , 1979 ; Marcel and Patterson , 1978 ; . |
| 9 | Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort . |
| 10 | Because of the claims made by test constructors in relation to the numerical scores which can be derived from tests and the very considerable technical demands required to meet these assessment objectives , it is necessary to evaluate language tests against a number of well-established criteria ( McCauley and Swisher 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way . |
| 12 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 13 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 14 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 15 | David Mason , a PPL and former editor of Flight International , set out to discover exactly what it takes to be a fighter pilot in the RAF , and the various routes would-be aces take to achieve that aim . |
| 16 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has warned this will lead to redundancies among architects and quantity surveyors . |
| 17 | The pawnshop also played an important role in enabling families to survive from week to week — setting their meagre possessions to work to provide some security . |
| 18 | Working from samples taken from the ice cap , French researchers have calculated that snowfall in Greenland in 1967 contained seven times more lead than in 1989 . |
| 19 | However , both social needs and the range of social policies designed to meet these are constantly changing , whilst social policy itself is not divorced from the economic and political climate in which it is developed . |
| 20 | The new and improved roads have attracted many tourists , with the inevitable consequences of commercial development : a hotel and restaurant , a filling station , B and B signs , caravans . |
| 21 | Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) . |
| 22 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 23 | The paper quotes documents which suggest the pilot learnt that the French authorities had received several bomb threats against UTA 's African flights which were not passed on to him . |
| 24 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 25 | High notes have become less of a strain to play since the well-nigh total adoption of the ‘ double horn ’ . |
| 26 | The VHPB aims to develop clear guidelines to help identify those at risk , and to implement successful vaccination programmes to overcome this uneven protection of at risk workers . |
| 27 | In New York State where 25 per cent of the electorate is Black , where more than 40,000 Americans live homeless , where drug dealing and drug addiction terrorize every neighborhood , where bridges collapse and subways defy your tolerance for filth , and where public schools fail to keep most of their students and also fail to teach the ones who stay , what was ‘ the issue of Israel ’ ? |
| 28 | The history of the Empire is full of strife , and on occasion one Count has marched his armies against another , and knights from different provinces have fought each other despite being part of the same Order . |
| 29 | Different readers have purchased this book for different reasons , whether it be to pass a professional examination , to commence undergraduate studies in marketing , or to train for a new job in the company 's sales or marketing department . |
| 30 | It appears evident that Electronic Arts have achieved this to a good effect , hence EA richly deserve full marks for graphics . |