Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All the above examples of deaths , injuries , and economic losses caused by corporate acts are not the antics of one or two evil , or mentally disturbed , or relatively deprived senior employees .
2 It is said , in effect , that their acts are necessarily the company 's acts ; that their will , knowledge , and belief are those of the company , and that their consent necessarily implies consent by the company .
3 It the belief becomes current in public opinion that in the arguments between government and opposition it is not really a matter of opposing opinions being presented , then the impression will increasingly gain currency that parliamentary discussions are just a game .
4 The reasons are partly the growth of new research in technology and science but as important is the current of ideas and information generated by modern global media .
5 For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) .
6 No matter how one acts , desires have to depend upon resources to some extent ; actual possessions are partly the criterion of those aspired to .
7 Their accounts are primarily the taxman 's and the banks ' business .
8 These editorial policies are not the result of idiosyncratic requirements on the part of journal editors ; they are simply part of the disciplinary culture , which every aspiring academic has to pick up .
9 One approach to debunking the distinctiveness of the Thatcher record is to argue that the post-1979 policies are merely a continuation of earlier trends , for example , of the early economic policies of Mr Heath 's 1970 government or of the acceptance of monetary targets and abandonment of Keynesianism under the Callaghan — Healey regime in 1976 .
10 It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters , the trade unions , say .
11 It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story .
12 While shareholders are not the owners of the company 's assets as a matter of strict law , they are in substance the owners by virtue of being the contributors of the company 's capital .
13 However , these shareholders are not the persons generally meant when one speaks of membership of the clearing house .
14 But habituation and other such escape strategies are not the result of any active intellect .
15 Those cases are where the matter or transaction in relation to which the offence was committed , was a contract or a proposal for a contract with , amongst others , a public body ; or a sub-contract to execute any work comprised in such a contract .
16 Thompson 's and Anderson 's choices of their respective definitions are clearly the fruit of a more fundamental attachment — to the underlying assumptions of individualism in Thompson 's case and to holism in Anderson 's — and as the tone of their exchange reveals , they will not lightly give these up .
17 A second answer is that long working hours are not a cause of housework dissatisfaction because they are an expected part of the housewife role .
18 Long hours are often a reflection of an organization 's bureaucratic inefficiency .
19 To the West are the rugged moors of Brontë Country , and the magnificent Dales and Peaks are only an hour 's drive away .
20 His teeth are even a snow white in colour .
21 But they admit that many warning signs are just a bluff .
22 xlvii , Against Euergos ) by pirates , local rowdies or litigants seeking what is nowadays politely called a ‘ remedy by self-help ’ ; in which case the answer was to take refuge inside the fortified central pyrgos or tower , whose foundations are still a feature of the Vari site .
23 U.S. titles are now a phone call away .
24 The line-outs are also an area of concern .
25 Budget surpluses are now the norm and the emphasis is on repaying government debt rather than borrowing .
26 These meetings are also a chance to swap ideas and plan what we 'll do the next day .
27 Such meetings are also an opportunity to exchange ideas and see displays of books and other materials .
28 The Labour party agree that changes will have to be made in the benefit system , but say that today 's proposals are not the answer .
29 The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's final proposals are undoubtedly an improvement on those adumbrated in its Working Paper .
30 It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided .
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