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

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1 From these authorities I collect two things .
2 At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’
3 In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions .
4 In the White Paper ’ Employment for the 1990s ’ , we recognised that the industry has particular characteristics which create peculiar problems for training .
5 There are some really weird contraptions which have more levers , joints , and other paraphernalia than a Swiss watch .
6 But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives .
7 It is now taken to mean the compound benzene , C H , or compounds which have similar structures and properties to benzene .
8 Much of this is due to the magnificent Court carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries which grace Western museums , and the 18th and 19th-century masterpieces to be found in royal palaces and stately homes throughout the world .
9 Traditional drainage has accelerated this problem in two ways : by promoting farming methods which require high levels of fertilizer , and by stripping out the buffer of vegetation between the riverside and the fields .
10 There also exists a range of specialised repair methods which use epoxy resins .
11 to provide a range of data acceptance and printing methods which allow simple links to a variety of other text processing systems
12 The clearest example of considerations which affect authoritative decisions but which do not apply to individuals acting on their own are considerations arising out of the needs and limitations of bureaucracies .
13 The interplay between semantic and social conditioning factors may then be interpreted as reflecting differential preferences by social groups for certain communicative styles which involve different degrees of assertiveness .
14 The most effective means of reviewing the structure of such specialized lists is to consider two of the traditional subject headings lists which cover all subjects : Sears List of Subject Headings and the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings .
15 Omnivores comprise by far the largest group from cosmopolitan feeders such as the opportunistic wrasses which have broad tastes to specialised feeders such as angelfish which browse benthically upon sponges and algae .
16 Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage .
17 Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage .
18 Certainly by the second quarter of the sixteenth century there were serious social grievances which underlie such movements as the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 and the West Country and Norfolk revolts of 1549 .
19 The new law empowered police to designate as criminal syndicates those organizations which met certain criteria , including a proportion of convicted felons among their membership .
20 Production systems will have to be intensified in ways which do not deplete fertility ; areas which are now under-populated will have to be used more productively ; the organizations which serve small farmers , including relevant agricultural research institutes , will have to be strengthened ; and finally , agricultural prices will have to be maintained at a level which provides an incentive .
21 The great majority of farmers continue to use minimal quantities of fertiliser although fertility is being depleted ; few governments are tackling the question of the use of their under-populated areas on a systematic basis ; the organizations which serve small farmers have cut back their operations in response to budgetary pressures and in response to the pressure for privatization ; the frequently competent staff of national agricultural research bodies are everywhere starved of funds for transport and field labour .
22 In the 1960s and 1970s most governments set up economic planning organizations which reflected these objectives .
23 ‘ Thou shalt conform ’ , is the new commandment of the national organizations which dominate high streets all over Britain .
24 The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved .
25 His grave expression did n't match the ironic amusement in eyes which held darker shadows .
26 However , the pattern is changing , and one recent development is the introduction of camcorders which have power-zoom toggles but no manual zoom lever ; another change is the substitution of toggle-switches in place of a focus ring .
27 The worksheets themselves are organized into Notebooks which contain 257 pages each ( which should be enough for most mortals ) .
28 Finally , by combined ( complex ) competition we mean the struggle that is waged by combined enterprises , i.e. , capitalist units which amalgamate various branches of production , i.e. , which transform the social division of labour into a technical division .
29 It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement .
30 It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution .
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