Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels .
2 A library comes round with big books for those who ca n't see well — there 's a big selection of those out there and they change them often .
3 Now we 're not arguing that the calculation should go beyond past land take-up and er counting the heads of those who would be employed , we w we would follow a similar process and we recognize that there are needs beyond that .
4 The sale of council houses , as Malpass and Murie argue , ‘ reduces the housing opportunities of those who must rent — of those who can not buy on grounds of means , age and eligibility for borrowing — and who rely on becoming council tenants and on transfers and exchanges to satisfy their housing need . ’
5 Laws and conventions constrain the broadcast media , who may nevertheless reproduce the voices of those who can adopt such a stance .
6 That same chapter has more to say about ritual of atonement , and chapter 18 is concerned with the identity and privileges of those who will carry out such ritual , and who will enable the people to dwell with the holiness of God without being destroyed by it .
7 This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations .
8 With books like this we shall be much better equipped lo make a contribution .
9 A confidential study designed to assess the extent of professional abuse , follows investigations in America that showed one in 10 counsellors developed sexual relationships with those they should have been helping .
10 Of course the problems of distinguishing F from C , goat from sheep , are no worse than the problems teachers were faced with for years , when they had to separate O level candidates from those who would work for CSE .
11 Given the extreme economic crisis , the end of which is not yet in sight , it is left-wing socialist parties in particular which may become very strong in the future , on condition , of course , that Russia continues to respect democratic freedoms and the rights of the individual .
12 It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it .
13 One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France .
14 Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure .
15 ‘ The Bill provides no genuine concessions at all which might protect pools jobs , ’ he said .
16 It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful .
17 As explained in Chapter 8 , the NAI addresses the needs of people ; in the context of the FAOR package , it is concerned with clarifying the interests and preferences of those who will use any designed office system , and how they could affect its success .
18 My hon. Friend has vigorously represented the interests of views of those who may be affected by this project .
19 With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together .
20 and merely lukewarm defenders of all who would gain by new ones .
21 Since the majority of them were neither party members , nor teachers or agronomists , they represented a valuable addition to the ranks of those who might be able to promote smychka in the countryside .
22 Our alternative strategy seeks to manage the tensions between those who will only resist within the law and those who see the need to go further .
23 The hotel provides an assortment of highchairs suitable for different ages and plump cushions for those who ca n't quite reach the table , which was set with child-sized cutlery and crockery .
24 Mature enough , in any case , to be recreating works from past decades for those who might have missed them .
25 ( The elements of these which would reduce costs — such as the better transport system , the cheaper access to all kinds of services and so forth — are elements of agglomeration economies . )
26 Chapters Four to Seven , which present the research findings , examine : whether the project made any difference to those who received it , compared with those who did not , in terms of institutionalisation , mental or emotional well-being , self-care capacity or receipt of other community services ( Chapter Four ) ; the effects of the project upon the principal informal carers of the dementia sufferers ( Chapter Five ) ; the major costs of community care for those receiving or not receiving support from the project ( Chapter Six ) ; and the limits to care , that is , the characteristics or circumstances of those who could not be supported at home for long even with the Home Support Project ( Chapter Seven ) .
27 The introduction of antibiotics saved the lives of many who would previously have died , but their use has produced new and complex problems .
28 The so-called Helsinki warning , also dismissed as unreliable ( and apparently for better reason ) , had at least saved the lives of those who would otherwise have occupied the vacant seats on Flight 103 .
29 With parents like that you should both have turned out monsters ! ’
30 Any change to a field will have some knock-on effect on other areas in that it will modify the overall pattern of student choice .
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