Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 2 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 4 | The development of NVQs and SVQs is underpinned by the assumption that in order for Britain to maintain and enhance its economic position in an increasingly competitive market it requires a more qualified , skilled , flexible and adaptable workforce capable of acquiring the competences to cope with changing technology and methods of work . |
| 5 | This , it was argued , amounted to ‘ service abroad ’ ; any other view would infringe the right of other Contracting States to object to certain modes of service , such as Germany 's objection to the use of registered mail ; would circumvent the translation requirements existing under the Convention ; and would deprive defendants of the guarantees in Articles 15 and 16 . |
| 6 | The marriage between logical semantics and textual semiotics does not , however , prove equally felicitous when the approach to the truth-conditionality of counterfactuals developed within modal logic is extended to the semantics of fictional universes by means of the " Principle of Minimal Departure " ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them . |
| 8 | While a Hague Rules inspired bill of lading can be challenged by an issuing bank on the basis that Article 3(3) of the Hague Rules defers to municipal law for unlisted requirements , decisional law does not reveal any such challenge . |
| 9 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 10 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 11 | Near to this was a small pool designated by our guide as Lod an Suidhe [ Pool of the Sitting ] where the guga hunters sit on surrounding rocks to wash their feet after the day 's toil . |
| 12 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 13 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 14 | The role will involve providing economic back-up analysis and feasibility studies for planning activities undertaken at all levels by the Physical Planning Directorate . |
| 15 | Activity with tools may be undertaken by the whole class as a supervised group , or may be later activities undertaken by small groups of their own volition , and the circumstances under which this latter is to take place must be carefully organized in advance . |
| 16 | The Commission points out that it is often difficult to attribute responsibility , especially when damage is the cumulative result of activities undertaken by many parties . |
| 17 | Direct employment covers all those activities undertaken by Scotch Whisky companies , who , to a greater or lesser extent , are engaged in : |
| 18 | It would be easy for the issues to be addressed by a series of discrete activities undertaken by different staff with the likelihood of overlap , empire building , and gate-keeping . |
| 19 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 20 | The Commission was attempting by these measures to reduce the past bias towards spending on large infrastructure projects favoured by national governments . |
| 21 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 22 | The platelet aggregates formed in this way are fixed with formol . |
| 23 | It is imperative that we emphasise the uniqueness of the Catholic school which understands itself as a faith community in which the beliefs and values communicated in Religious Education inspire and unify every aspect of the school life . |
| 24 | At home I grew up in old Victorian houses filled with antique furniture . |
| 25 | — Manjiku 's got a snout like a crocodile , Manjiku 's got pointed green teeth arranged in double rows , and a mane of spikes like sea urchins , and a forked tail with razor edges he uses to slice up his food . |
| 26 | Part of the growth of road transport reflected the political tolerance of what unions and rail pressure groups regarded as unfair competition . |
| 27 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 28 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 29 | Reading activities develop into individual reading sessions with the teacher , into private reading , and into reading for information ( in order to understand something , to do something , or to write something ) . |
| 30 | But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as : |