Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 2 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 3 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 4 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 5 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 6 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 7 | Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’ |
| 8 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 9 | Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’ |
| 10 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 11 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 12 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 13 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 14 | For example , Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow . |
| 15 | A coach will then help each student select those methods which match the dynamic performance of the kayak in use and which are most appropriate to the personal aims and values of the trainee . |
| 16 | When this is the case methods which give the entire distribution rather than some of the averages referred to above must be used . |
| 17 | It is important to distinguish clearly between the features of the paper based life cycle which were a product of the limitations of the media and can now be joyfully abandoned , and methods which have an ongoing role when re-interpreted into the electronic life cycle . |
| 18 | He has himself , let us say , spent a couple of disillusioning years in Bali , so that he fully understands the considerations which tempt the young man , but has the advantage of fuller information . |
| 19 | Is this asymmetric behaviour an intrinsic property of the stem cell , or are there environmental signals which control the different pathways of the daughter cells ? |
| 20 | Within seconds visual behaviours are sending signals which create a favourable or an unfavourable impression . |
| 21 | Process industries produce a number of items from a single raw material , as opposed to discrete manufacturers which produce a single product from multiple raw materials . |
| 22 | Cancer cells become tumorigenic as a result of multiple independent steps which subvert the normal growth control mechanisms described earlier . |
| 23 | In general the law changes look like long overdue positive steps which strike the delicate balance of encouraging attacking enterprise while also punishing sides intent on killing the ball in defence . |
| 24 | These are the groups and organizations which express the vast diversity of interests within society . |
| 25 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 26 | Equally as important in keeping a regular check on publishers ' output are those organizations which offer an advisory service for educational users . |
| 27 | Type B non-profit — non-profit organizations which obtain a significant amount of financial resources from sources other than the sale of goods and services . |
| 28 | One solution would be to redefine the Type A in terms of current financial resources and perhaps also to replace ‘ entirely or almost entirely ’ with ‘ a significant proportion ’ , so that the Type A non-profit organizations become : non-profit organizations which obtain a significant amount of their current financial resources from the sale of goods and services . |
| 29 | These are the coarse outer hairs which overlie the thick insulating underfur . |
| 30 | In addition , Ferrari has also shown that the shock waves which accompany the impulsive waves only affect the rate at which the Weyl scalars diverge on the singularity . |