Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five acts are booked to do seven minutes each and no one does a spot shorter than 15 . |
| 2 | To raise revenue ; the annual Finance Acts are passed to give legislative authority to the Chancellor 's Budget . |
| 3 | The use of strategies such as ‘ party penetration ’ , where politically chosen personnel are appointed to key organizational positions to prevent any frustration of party policy by unsympathetic or parochial bureaucrats , is only one example . |
| 4 | The Hochland colours of red and green are shown here in conjunction with a black plume — the colours of plumes and ribbons are used to indicate individual regiments . |
| 5 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 6 | Before obtaining that tax credit it is necessary that trust tax returns are submitted detailing all sources of trust income and payments to beneficiaries and that the additional rate of 10 per cent is paid by the trustees ( ESC B18 ) . |
| 7 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 8 | All prisoners are urged to pursue educational and cultural activities . |
| 9 | If Japanese accounts are redrawn using American methods , the p/e ratios fall by 30–50% . |
| 10 | After examination the Council confirms its grant for the previous year which until the accounts are received remains provisional . |
| 11 | Their accounts are prepared using accrual-type concepts . |
| 12 | The obligation on member states to make good the damage is also based on Article 5 of the Treaty , under which the member states are bound to take all appropriate measures , whether general or particular , to ensure fulfilment of the obligations arising under Community law … . |
| 13 | States are expected to submit annual reports on issues such as pollution control , biodiversity conservation , trends in health , poverty and population . |
| 14 | And the PLO , Israel and several Arab states are to meet to discuss regional economic development at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on September 20 . |
| 15 | In this the Commission is charged with keeping all State aids under continuous review , and member states are required to provide prior notification of any plans to grant or to alter aid . |
| 16 | According to 3Com , router administration is reduced through its Boundary Routing System Architecture — it says five to 10 times more remote site connections can be added without adding resources , complexity or risk — and Cascade 's switching technologies are said to produce cost-effective wide area network backbones that are easily managed . |
| 17 | Westerners are beginning to do some cautious bargain-hunting among blue chips that have fallen from the three-figure earnings multiples of the 1980s to more reasonable ratings . |
| 18 | Clearly the President 's enemies are itching to believe unsubstantiated stories that could hurt him . |
| 19 | Governments ' policies are beginning to reflect that fact . |
| 20 | All too often , policies are introduced to solve particular problems of the day . |
| 21 | Policies are suggested to tackle this . |
| 22 | First , the discussion of policy making in the later part of the last chapter suggested that many new initiatives stem from the recognition that older policies are failing to meet desired goals . |
| 23 | The necks are tinted to look aged , and with the pearloid and glitter scratchplates the impression is one of instant '60s kitch , which of course is very ‘ now ’ . |
| 24 | Less than ten kilograms are needed to make one bomb , but a large reactor can produce many thousand kilos in its lifetime . |
| 25 | Two separate operations are needed to normalise this sentence , one involving closed set items : |
| 26 | Particular skills and attitudes are needed to make voluntary agreements workable and fair . |
| 27 | The sentence pairs are designed to reflect important grammatical contrasts but , without information regarding how the particular contrasts were selected and how far they are representative of the grammatical skills available to children of this age , it is impossible to determine how useful they are as test items . |
| 28 | Other electrical frequencies are known to have specific effects on the body . |
| 29 | The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication . |
| 30 | Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs . |