Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where in the authorities difficulty has arisen this has often been the result of the introduction of an issue whether the creditor appointed the debtor as its agent to obtain the signature of the surety to the charge upon which the creditor sought to rely . |
| 2 | There were problems aired , including the fact that nurses after training are not employed due to the cutbacks and are not allowed as a result to get the six months experience needed to get another job . |
| 3 | More recently , in an offshoot of that movement , the disability arts movement has combined these new ideas with an interest in the arts , for the dual purpose of achieving true integration and using the arts as a medium to promote its campaigns . |
| 4 | He has not held the post very long but he has worked hard and the arts world has appreciated that . |
| 5 | A recent decision by the Council 's Personnel Committee has established that non-smoking will be the norm for employees at work and the ban will mean : |
| 6 | The BHS Training and Exams Committee have organised this to give those on the Instructors ' Register a fair chance of attending a refresher course . |
| 7 | The commodities boom had increased many less developed countries ' ( LDC ) export earnings , and imports rose with some lag . |
| 8 | Though its international activities and long term contracts business appear to offer some cause for cheer , it seems that Egham , Surrey-based consultancy P-E International Plc is not out of the woods yet . |
| 9 | That is why the arms-for-Iraq case has caused such interest at Westminster , even if it has not in the rest of the country . |
| 10 | One twelve-inch Marathon record achieved a playing-time of more than 16 minutes , spread over two sides ; but customers had to change the soundbox of their record-players to cope with ‘ hill-and-dale ’ grooves , and within a couple of years non-standardization had claimed another victim . |
| 11 | During the last twenty years advertising has enjoyed many important changes such as the introduction of colour television commercial radio , and colour printing in newspapers . |
| 12 | In the last five years evaluation has received much attention in UK academic libraries and particularly in parts of the research projects sponsored by the BLR&DD . |
| 13 | The Public Affairs Committee has had another look at privacy and the law . |
| 14 | ‘ The way that the Policy Studies Institute has presented this story is potentially murderous . ’ |
| 15 | The British Monopolies and Mergers Commission did review these bids but dismissed fears that the deals were tantamount to backdoor nationalisation . |
| 16 | MCI Communications Corp has reported that first quarter net profits rose 7.1% at $151.0m after a $17m charge for the cost of early repayment of debt , on turnover that rose 11.8% to $2,810m ; net earnings per share were 10% ahead at $0.56 . |
| 17 | As company size and the internalisation of industrial relations activity have increased many companies have acquired or strengthened their own specialist personnel management function … thus facilitating the pursuit of more distinctive , company-specific employment policies . |
| 18 | Therefore it is not surprising that the lowlands landscape has changed most , especially in arable areas , for farming in the lowlands has been subject to the most thoroughgoing technological changes . |
| 19 | According to later studies ( Martin , 1986 , 1987 ; TCPA , 1987 ; Green , 1988 ) the gap in the 1980s is now wider than ever ; and the latest developments in information and communications technology threaten to reinforce these contrasts ( Goddard and Gillespie , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | Getting on to a YTS course had changed many young people 's lives . |
| 21 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 22 | Sanctions remained in force , although on March 22 the Security Council 's sanctions committee did announce that humanitarian aid would be approved for Iraq under the terms of the original sanctions resolution ( 661 of Aug. 6 , 1990 — see p. 37639 ] in view of the circumstances of the threat of famine and epidemic . |
| 23 | No other Windows product dares to offer this level of compatibility because of Lotus 's reputation for litigation . |
| 24 | Staff at London 's Games Store had sold little of anything to do with the war until the war-games club of an American military base in Britain cleared them out of T-55 tanks ( Iraq 's main battle tank ) and German armoured personnel carriers ( used by the Saudis ) . |
| 25 | I had heard the National Health Service was in a bad way , but I did n't realize that do-it-yourself , take-your own-chances medicine had reached this level of intensity . |
| 26 | A building societies survey has found many managers feel under-trained to sell insurance products . |
| 27 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 28 | A feud would often develop in which the uniformed officer was ‘ taunted from a safe distance with nicknames and insults such as ‘ beetlecrusher ’ , ‘ narker ’ , or ‘ copper-copper wax-ass ’ In turn , the police officer came to view all kids as trouble — to be chased . |
| 29 | In past operational plans the Eastern Health and Social Services Board had stressed that efficiency and flexibility would need to be introduced . |
| 30 | In practice , the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act has caused little difficulty for freedom of expression . |