Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And many of the objects my ex used to bring home were equally unwelcome and led to as much mess . |
| 2 | The utility of believing that , however many setbacks my cause may suffer , God or the historical process is ultimately on my side , an effectiveness demonstrated throughout history by so many religious and political movements , is only one example of the practical value of delusion . |
| 3 | These are the subjects whom screening would detect in larger numbers than real cases . |
| 4 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 5 | Although Premier Robert Bourassa was returned with a reduced majority , the separatist Parti Quebecois ( PQ ) increased the number of its seats and secured 41 per cent of the vote , a development interpreted by most commentators as limiting the scale of concessions which Bourassa could offer in return for the ratification of Meech Lake . |
| 6 | Eyes her soul could drown in . |
| 7 | They provide ‘ on approval ’ collections of new books which librarians may inspect before selecting , and these may either be sent to library premises or — a new development — toured round library authorities in special vans . |
| 8 | Those organizations whose members can find no good reason , whatever the basis of the bargain , to trust one another at a modicum will find it extremely hard to work effectively with each other . |
| 9 | If he would pay five pounds out of his savings his dad would find another five . |
| 10 | If a vehicle examiner who has been authorised by a chief constable examines the brakes his evidence will show a more detailed inspection and will probably name the ‘ part ’ concerned . |
| 11 | Books your child may find helpful |
| 12 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 13 | Contracting States are to designate the authorities which consuls may approach . |
| 14 | Journalists focused on a wide range of issues from specific aspects of our accounts for 1992/93 to the forms which privatisation may take and associated timing , to our projected future staffing levels . |
| 15 | Mediation , managerial direction , and procedural controls internal to the institution itself are but some of the other forms which decision-making could take . |
| 16 | The first task then is to define the skills which children will need to complete a project effectively . |
| 17 | It also gives examples of typical queries which users may wish to perform on LIFESPAN information and some sample outputs from these queries . |
| 18 | Suddenly in the silence of the small hours its patience would break and she listened rigidly to its scrabbling attempts to break out . |
| 19 | The draft agreement outlines , in great detail ( 11 sections and 33 sub-sections ) the hours which teachers shall work , contractual limitations upon teachers ’ workload , the grade structure within schools and methods of appraising teachers as well as details on pay , negotiating machinery and the responsibility of the employers . |
| 20 | It aims to build up listening and speaking skills through a variety of activities which children can join in happily and with confidence . |
| 21 | They consider , sometimes in fairly abstract terms , the kinds of policies which Labour might have adopted , without asking whether such policies had any chance of securing parliamentary support . |
| 22 | They are deliberate attempts which people can make to counteract their injunctions by asserting their opposites . |
| 23 | It also reflects the bold decision taken by my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) to cut corporation tax and liberate a range of resources for investments which companies would choose for themselves rather than being pointed in a certain direction by the distorting effect of allowances . |
| 24 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 25 | What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts . |
| 26 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 27 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 28 | He always takes his time : he must get his ink horn out , his parchment smooth , his quill sharpened , and make sure his little arse is comfortable on the softest cushions my manor can provide . |
| 29 | To the extent that non-governmental bodies perform functions which government would have to perform if they did not , there is no good reason why such bodies should not be subject to judicial review in the same way as a government body performing equivalent functions would be . |
| 30 | Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice . |