Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) .
2 Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities .
3 Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) .
4 She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter .
5 Because of its importance , most of the great houses launch their latest creations at the Biennale .
6 They eat almost continuously for a month , pausing only to shed their skins several times to accommodate their ever-increasing bodies .
7 It is urging police authorities to instruct their chief constables not to use or stockpile plastic bullets-solid PVC cylinders 10 cm , long , 38 mm in diameter and weighing 135 grams .
8 That is a special allocation , in addition to the normal resources made available to local authorities to support their inner-area programmes of social and economic regeneration .
9 Will employers make their main cuts in recruitment of poly graduates ?
10 It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won .
11 The charitable foundations remain their largest shareholders , however .
12 So local authorities make their own policies , which sometimes leads to conflict with central government and always to diversity of provision .
13 He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts .
14 In other words , you must accept the idea that historians often disagree and may have convincing reasons to support their individual viewpoints .
15 Each country will have three hours and minutes to bowl their 50 overs .
16 Both her hands around my penis , cosseting it , restraining it , I licked her neck , the backs of my fingers prinked her pink nipples .
17 The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals .
18 But there is no mention of the fact that Scheiner was put under pressure by his superiors to curb his anti-Aristotelian conjectures .
19 One of the biggest challenges to this new-look management was to cope with the ‘ tribalism ’ of the service ; the tendency of professional groups to cherish their historic rights to govern their own affairs .
20 Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations .
21 which display the solo dancing ability of each character and define social status and other traits that are so important to the unfolding of the story , e.g. the Six fairies bring their various gifts to the Christening and Aurora dances happily to acknowledge the compliments of the Princes and all who have come to her birthday ( The Sleeping Beauty . )
22 in the shit , his fucking gone clang , this blokes got his fucking nuts and the next thing he sees is a big fucking plaster balls alone and he 's , he 's got up his wife , he 's having a right old night with here and he 's leaving , and he says I do n't need you , I did n't need
23 Lighting and water movement are also important to feeding because they influence the way many relatively-immobile sessile marine invertebrates gain their nutritional requirements .
24 Many of these nests now contained , in the month of June , sitting birds keeping their unhatched eggs warm .
25 The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth .
26 A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs .
27 A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs .
28 He advises organisations to go for proven and well understood technologies to meet their basic requirements , wherever possible using architectures which are already known within the company — even if different technologies have been implemented on top .
29 Many of the people I met also rely on loan companies and clubs who scour the poorest housing estates to find their neediest clients .
30 Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity .
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