Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 2 | Mr Ben Ali had a few minor constitutional changes to offer , but the absence of substantive concessions to the opposition parties has taken some of the gloss off his big day . |
| 3 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 4 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 5 | But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years . |
| 6 | The workload is considered such that not even the appointment of a number of additional limited case judges has made much of a dent in it . |
| 7 | Putting ‘ managing legal rules ’ high on the agenda of management meetings helps to achieve this objective . |
| 8 | Reservoir Dogs does have some pretty extreme scenes . ’ |
| 9 | Merchants believe there is a psychological barrier at £3 , and although the wild swing in European exchange rates has pushed many French and German wines out of this bracket , most New World economies are suffering as much as if not more than ours , leading to a continued supply of cheap , good quality wine . |
| 10 | The existence of these foreign exchange deposits has created some unusual problems for the Yugoslav banking system , which will be considered further below . |
| 11 | Having three genuine lineout specialists has made all the difference , not to mention Derek Turnbull and , in the Irish match , Alan Watt . |
| 12 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 13 | Presumably , it was felt that businessmen could take care of themselves in this area , and the fact that such clauses are not in common use in business contracts seems to bear this out . |
| 14 | An unsigned act which is being chased by half a dozen record companies does have some leverage in negotiations , but only as much as the levels of supply and demand will allow . |
| 15 | Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years . |
| 16 | A SPATE of new fixed-rate mortgage schemes has appeared this weekend . |
| 17 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 18 | The number of mental stress claims has increased more than tenfold over the past decade . |
| 19 | CONTROVERSY over pit closures has created some strange bedfellows . |
| 20 | The Rheidol trains are smart and well cared for while the mix of locomotive liveries has brought some much needed added interest . |
| 21 | The Scuds fired so far have done no direct military damage , but the hunt for their launch sites has diverted many allied aircraft from other jobs . |
| 22 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 23 | The craft of the ivory carvers has attracted more attention . |
| 24 | The relationship between the Hague Convention and the other methods of obtaining evidence abroad provided for in the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and comparable State rules has occupied much judicial time . |
| 25 | Large reserves of foreign currencies would then be required to buy the domestic currency in support operations , but the growth and mobility of capital flows has made most countries accept that such a defence is impractical . |
| 26 | This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling . |
| 27 | The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler . |
| 28 | Moreover , unearthing evidence of such inequality would not cause a pluralist to challenge the basis of his or her analytical approach in the same way that evidence of the influence of non-economically based groups on state decisions has generated much tortuous re-evaluation of basic theory among Marxist scholars . |
| 29 | The intrepid lady traveller Celia Fiennes had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke near Ely in 1698 ; and in the same year she took care to avoid Martin Mere in Lancashire , ‘ that as the proverb sayes has parted many a man and his mare indeed ’ . |
| 30 | Our share of trade in world manufactures has outstripped that of Germany , France , America and Japan . |