Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 2 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 3 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 4 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 5 | ‘ Joe knows that when I do n't train with the lads I do extra training on my own . |
| 6 | There are also characteristics which show specific disadvantage to women . |
| 7 | In the White Paper ’ Employment for the 1990s ’ , we recognised that the industry has particular characteristics which create peculiar problems for training . |
| 8 | Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them . |
| 9 | It is now taken to mean the compound benzene , C H , or compounds which have similar structures and properties to benzene . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Every day , wrote one social investigator , the ‘ old methods which require manual skill and long practice are being superseded by the progress of mechanical invention . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There also exists a range of specialised repair methods which use epoxy resins . |
| 14 | to provide a range of data acceptance and printing methods which allow simple links to a variety of other text processing systems |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Two styles which maximise thick hair . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Company 's objectives are to : Manage effectively its existing reserves portfolio ; find and develop efficiently additional reserves which offer significant potential to add value for shareholders ; build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices ; and provide a strong financial base to support its operations . |
| 21 | Clear footprints , extending over 6 base pairs , can be seen around each of the GpT ( ApC ) steps which represent good bleomycin cleavage sites . |
| 22 | Hewlett-Packard Co denies there is any pressure on it to deliver multiprocessing workstations despite the hype surrounding Sun Microsystems Inc 's latest salvo of desktops and servers which use multiple SuperSparc CPUs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations . |
| 27 | ‘ Thou shalt conform ’ , is the new commandment of the national organizations which dominate high streets all over Britain . |
| 28 | Working-class organizations which exhibited independent initiative — be it soviets or trade unions — were regarded with acute suspicion unless and until they were firmly under party tutelage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |