Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement in the Adoption Agency Regulations to counsel the parents specifically about all the alternatives to adoption , and to make sure that their views about these different alternatives are placed before the court , together with the fact that guardians ad litem and reporting officers will also be scrutinising this element of the work , should lead to more careful practice at this stage . |
| 2 | The Institute of International Finance has vacancies for senior international economists . |
| 3 | Industry and academia have had an opportunity to participate in these discussions through Industrial Working Groups , and the open workshops held in conjunction with the ESPRIT conference in November . |
| 4 | In practice , initial drafts of rules will be the subject of ongoing discussions between all four parties . |
| 5 | Irrespective of the things that are being said tonight , I think we 've got ta look at the reasons for all these bombings and shootings . |
| 6 | Irrespective of the things that are being said tonight , I think we 've got ta look at the reasons for all these bombings and shootings . |
| 7 | The reasons for such poor results are simple . |
| 8 | The reasons for such different conventions must then be sought in the social context . |
| 9 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 10 | Among the reasons for these large numbers are that there is no right of appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to the courts ; that from many decisions by immigration officers adverse to immigrants , an appeal can be made only from outside the United Kingdom ; and that from some decisions ( such as some exclusions deemed conducive to the public good by the Secretary of State ) there are no rights of appeal at all . |
| 11 | What are the reasons for this these shortages ? |
| 12 | Understanding writer 's style : students discuss the meaning and the reasons for given stylistic choices . |
| 13 | Record your wishes about medical treatment if you become terminally ill or incapacitated , including any wishes about specific medical procedures or investigations ( these are known as ‘ Advance Directives ’ ) |
| 14 | King Ecgfrith was advised by Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , and presumably informed circles among the northern Angles not to invade Pictland in 685 ( HE IV , 26 ) , and Cuthbert 's personal familiarity with the Niduari Picts in Fib ( Fife ) affords a glimpse of the probably extensive contacts between northern Anglian circles and Pictish communities immediately north of the Forth . |
| 15 | Strahler continued ( 1952 , p. 937 ) to suggest a programme for further research in geomorphology and this required five steps which were ( 1 ) a study of geomorphic processes and landforms as various kinds of responses to gravitational and molecular stresses acting on materials ; ( 2 ) quantitative determination of landform characteristics and causative factors ; ( 3 ) formulation of empirical equations by mathematical statistics ; ( 4 ) building concepts of open dynamic systems and steady states for all geomorphic processes ; and ( 5 ) deduction of general mathematical models to serve as quantitative natural laws . |
| 16 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 17 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 18 | Davenport co-ordinates the hotel 's activities through regular weekly meetings of the senior staff ( Tom Harvey , Vernon Russell , Agnes Miller and Sheila Martin ) . |
| 19 | The pre-Duchy management had co-ordinated the hotel 's activities through regular weekly meetings of senior staff ( in practice the Accommodation Manager , Head Receptionist , Housekeeper , Food and Beverage Manager , Head Chef and Head Waiter ) . |
| 20 | The additional presence of cAMP dependent Cl - channels and Ca 2 + dependent K + channels in this gastric cell line may provide an opportunity to study possible interactions between these two types of channel in response to a variety of acid secretory agonists . |
| 21 | Most people think of maps as hand-drawn paper-and-ink products , but now the production of maps by computer , either plotted on paper or drawn in the form of images on a graphics screen , is becoming commonplace . |
| 22 | The IMF began publishing in July 1988 a new monthly series of nominal effective exchange rate indices for sixteen industrialized countries . |
| 23 | ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’ |
| 24 | Finally we establish the so-called laws of exponents for positive integral powers . |
| 25 | Chapter 2 noted that managements may adopt non-profit-maximising policies for two broad reasons . |
| 26 | In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions . |
| 27 | In Weberian vein , Kamenka and Tay ( 1975 ) suggest that advanced capitalist societies tend to develop ‘ bureaucratic-administrative law ’ which increasingly regulates human activities for impersonal collective purposes such as general economic efficiency . |
| 28 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 29 | That is the only screen role to have won Oscars for two different actors ( Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro ) . |
| 30 | Where an answer is required to be filed of which notice must have been given to the respondent ( Ord 9 , r 18(5) ) , the answer shall be filed within 14 days inclusive of the day of service , unless another period is prescribed , and shall be accompanied by sufficient copies for all other parties , including other respondents separately represented . |