Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And oddly enough erm the lead in many cases has come as much from the primary school as from the university in this respect . |
| 2 | Now , however , the majority of manufacturing firms seek locations in smaller towns where space is more abundant , with the result that the role of cities has become increasingly that of centres for service sector activities . |
| 3 | It may be appropriate to end this section with a quotation from H. C. A. Somerset whose research on examination and selection in African schools has done so much to clarify problems and suggest solutions : |
| 4 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 5 | Can my right hon. Friend give us an assurance that the additional funds that the United Nations needs to carry out these increased responsibilities will be provided by the members of the United Nations ? |
| 6 | Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released . |
| 7 | This is not surprising since experience at the pilot sites has thrown up some important benefits and opportunities . |
| 8 | Other nations , however , are carping about a clause in the suggested new text which would allow the two weapons powers to hide how much civil uranium they buy and stockpile . |
| 9 | The proposed rules will require the non-weapons powers to disclose how much uranium they buy . |
| 10 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 11 | On the face of it then , the direct evidence from sample surveys of businessmen 's expectations seems to provide very little , if any , support for the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 12 | The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention . |
| 13 | The schedule for making valuations prohibits taking that much time . |
| 14 | In this matter of working clergy wives seems to lie yet another example of the Church 's failure to communicate . |
| 15 | And informed Ulster security sources say there is no evidence that the fatal shots have been fired by a specially trained marksman or mercenary brought in by the IRA or that only one or two men has carried out all the attacks . |
| 16 | In reply the Metropolitan Police has launched yet another campaign to convince women that they will get a serious and immediate response from the police . |
| 17 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 18 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 19 | The expansion of educational and professional training opportunities for women has done very little to alter the concentration of female professionals in ‘ domestic ’ professions : most professional women are still teachers or nurses — both jobs closely allied with the traditionally ‘ nurturant ’ role of women . |
| 20 | The Wensleydale market town with its inns , its tea shops and its cobbles looks to have as much chance of being frequented by members of the oldest profession as being the venue for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 21 | THE Belfast Telegraph 's new-look Saturday edition with two bumper magazine sections has brought about some changes to your weekend reading . |
| 22 | In the first part of this , ‘ Fixation of Belief , he outlines the project of grounding logical rules in the ‘ presupposition ’ of scientific inquiry — that there is a discoverable reality — and in subsequent papers attempts to do just that . |
| 23 | Extensive use of agricultural chemicals has driven out many animal and plant species . |
| 24 | It seems unlikely that the earlier experience of one country having an autonomous capability in the industry will be repeated , now that the web of alliances has permeated almost all sectors of the industry . |
| 25 | The work of Mr Coase and his followers has made almost all economists , whether broadly liberal or broadly interventionist , more reluctant to generalise . |
| 26 | There 's nothing really to add to the words that have been previously written about Ce Ce Rogers ' passionate songs and unfortunately there 's no original mix , but David Morales has polished up this vocal yearner for today 's club ambience and the Hacienda massive will lap it up . |