Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 4 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 5 | So local authorities make their own policies , which sometimes leads to conflict with central government and always to diversity of provision . |
| 6 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 7 | those institutions develop their own rationality and specific conformations and have definite resources and limitations . |
| 8 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 9 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 10 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 11 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 12 | Distrusting the accuracy of the commercially available products , those in ideological groups build their own machinery for picturing the world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Each of the nineteen states has its own radio station . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) The British Academy of Experts has its own list of members who hold themselves out as being experts in particular fields and available for compiling reports . |
| 20 | At Cambridge research will take place on how individuals make judgements of risk and at reading on how drivers perceive their own ability and accident likelihood . |
| 21 | Some such animals make their own poisons ; others take them from sources in their environment . |
| 22 | He no doubt intended to bring the local Forest administration more closely under his control : he certainly used his opportunities to promote his own relatives . |
| 23 | The exclusion of wills and conveyancing originated in a recommendation of the Legal Aid Scrutiny that public money should be directed towards the enforcement or defence of rights and not simply to enable clients to arrange their own affairs . |
| 24 | Middle class women , including feminists , who deplored the idea of state employees entering working class homes regarded their own activities in this regard as right and proper . |
| 25 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 26 | As a result these sub-organizations develop their own repertoires , standard operating procedures and specialized ways of attending to problems . |
| 27 | In ordinary language , this node expresses the situation in which readers judge their own satisfaction as being solely dependent on their own processing efforts ; and they judge the author 's satisfaction as being purely a matter of the authorial effort of writing . |
| 28 | ‘ 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past . |
| 29 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 30 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |