Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 2 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 3 | Successful missionizing activities and the extending of the boundaries and powers of states led secular authorities to an examination of the sources of power and to its exercise . |
| 4 | Why do some authorities make greater provision for pupils with special needs than other authorities faced with the same Problems ? ’ |
| 5 | Prominent individuals , including Gen. ( retd ) Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Anthony Enahoro , announced plans to promote new moves towards full multiparty democracy . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1970s , its annual meetings passed regular resolutions in support of nuclear expansion . |
| 7 | Thank God it 's 130 jobs for Glasgow or if that 's too flippant : Projects bring 130 jobs to Glasgow |
| 8 | THE INDIAN Board of Control yesterday relaxed rules binding Indian cricketers during tours abroad . |
| 9 | By then all the Renault plants had been occupied and students and workers held joint meetings to plan future action at Renault and Sud-Aviation . |
| 10 | His researchers made excellent observations on 178 separate UAPs which Rutledge has published in Project Identification ( Prentice Hall , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Bowed long notes make good additions to organ pedal parts or timpani rolls . |
| 12 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 13 | The Scuttlers also jealously guarded the territorial seclusion of their local beer-house — known as the ‘ blood-house ’ or ‘ blood-tub ’ — and they were such a force in Lancashire that the public authorities made various petitions to the Home Secretary for sterner repressive measures to put them down . |
| 14 | Some local authorities made good use of their autonomy . |
| 15 | ‘ Despite the variation in language of the various judges , the principle of Donoghue v. Stevenson [ [ 1932 ] A.C. 562 ] as appears from the examination of these authorities imposes tortious liability on a person who performs some careless act which may injure any person whom he should reasonably have had in contemplation as being likely to be injured in consequence of his carelessness and who in fact is injured by his careless act . |
| 16 | These too may be unrepresentative , since very expensive ‘ big science ’ projects make disproportionate demands on funding , and scientists can not be defined simply as those people in receipt of research grants . |
| 17 | Each million birds destroys 60 tons of grain every day making this species a major pest of African agriculture rivalled only by the locust ( above ) . |
| 18 | ‘ It has accelerated progress in changing out-dated organisational attitudes and has reinforced the need for employers to treat equal opportunities as a mainstream business issue , ’ says Lady Howe . |
| 19 | All major accounts produced satisfactory results with the exception of Commercial Property . |
| 20 | All foundations suffer some degree of settlement , since the sub-soil itself is elastic or compressible . |
| 21 | The election result has diminished the fear of an asset ‘ meltdown ’ as middle-class mortgage-payers became forced sellers of their houses after Labour 's confiscatory tax plans . |
| 22 | My actual intervention was linked to wider attempts to combat these influences by developing a new cultural politics of antiracism based around ‘ two tone music ’ . |
| 23 | One index of the theoretical and educational congruences between multiculturalism and antiracism is the underlying similarity between multiculturalist attempts to combat racial prejudice by the provision of ‘ positive images ’ and the antiracist injunction to present black histories primarily as narratives of resistance and struggle against racism ( Jeffcoate , 1979 ; Hatcher and Shallice , 1983 , p. 10 ) . |
| 24 | We have been able to demonstrate this at Westbury , for the bones from the rodent earth ( unit 15/8 : see Chapter 6 ) , where careful excavation with dental picks revealed complete bones with constituent parts in position but separated from each other by narrow cracks . |
| 25 | However , once again the results of its application as observed by practising solicitors raise grave doubts about its effectiveness for anybody other than the practitioners themselves ( Thomas and Mungham 1977 ) . |
| 26 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 27 | CAPE TOWN ( AP ) — Lieutenant Gregory Rockman of the South African police , speaking at the trial of two white colleagues , testified that riot squad members with whips and clubs attacked peaceful demonstrators like a ‘ pack of wild dogs ’ at an anti-government protest on 5 September in the Mitchell 's Plain township . |
| 28 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 29 | Constance spent hours drawing imaginary clothes for the mannequins and , encouraged by Miss Hatherby and her mother , made them dresses out of scraps of old material Miss Hatherby managed to find tucked away in the corners of Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 30 | • Computer Associates announced new versions of Compete , its Windows spreadsheet , the UpToDate information manager and Super-Project project management software . |