Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Direct employment covers all those activities undertaken by Scotch Whisky companies , who , to a greater or lesser extent , are engaged in : |
| 7 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At home I grew up in old Victorian houses filled with antique furniture . |
| 10 | Part of the growth of road transport reflected the political tolerance of what unions and rail pressure groups regarded as unfair competition . |
| 11 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Reasons given for transnational participation are : continuity of research to overcome shortfalls of younger scientists entering the field in view of the imminent retirement of many senior scientists and to provide advanced training . |
| 14 | The discussion thus far has focused on the reasons given in legal doctrine to support the legal model 's centralization of the power to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company . |
| 15 | By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic . |
| 16 | Most were disposed of at the Investigation Officer stage , though an interesting innovation in 1989 , which is to be extended nationally , is local conciliation by experienced solicitors designated as Local Conciliation Officers . |
| 17 | A rise in wage levels , Barton argued , encouraged employers to invest in labour-saving technology . |
| 18 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 19 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 20 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 21 | Perrier 's competitors have had to put their plants on 24-hour shifts to cope with added demand from the unaccustomed absence of the once ubiquitous green bottles . |
| 22 | On the one hand it can emphasise the regular contributions citizens/groups make to collective life , while on the other it can reduce their participation to elections . |
| 23 | The passions aroused in civil disobedience usually expressed themselves before they were spent in acts of more conventional rebellion . |
| 24 | At the other end of the scale there are ambitious research projects undertaken for methodical demonstration purposes . |
| 25 | Press releases given in technical language , with a large number of figures and percentages , were not easy to listen to and understand when broadcast . |
| 26 | About three quarters of dairy herds in EC member states qualify for full compensation . |
| 27 | Clubs asked for early warning |
| 28 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 29 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 30 | Cluster randomised controlled trial of two projects taught under normal classroom conditions . |