Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military strategy devised to implement successive governments ' Defence policies reflects both long-term national grand strategy and the directions given by the government of the day , and is largely the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 2 | Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years . |
| 3 | SAF Bulk Chemicals provides over 70,000 products from stock at its manufacturing and distribution sites worldwide . |
| 4 | A comparison of the markings on the faces of these four drinking zebras confirms how different each pattern is in fine detail . |
| 5 | If the prospect of British ‘ bobbies ’ behaving like their LAPD counterparts seems too remote to be taken seriously , we might do well to consider the events of 29 September 1989 when 400 police officers carried out a drug raid on the Broadwater Farm Estate . |
| 6 | Refitting the original sealed beam units has now improved matters ! |
| 7 | Mouse drivers Supports over 20 sound cards |
| 8 | Second , the imposition of a wealth tax creates an incentive for wealth holders to seek money returns on their wealth ( otherwise the tax generates a tax liability and no money income to meet it ) and indeed to maximize them ; for example , investment in valuable picture collections looks relatively unattractive . |
| 9 | The corruption of the security forces seems straight forward in the beginning , but as the plot unfolds , the facts of torture , a shoot-to-kill policy , and the silencing of information in Northern Ireland seems only to serve as a backdrop to the political intrigue . |
| 10 | But the line of cultural development represented by Inca Peru and increasingly by modern welfare states runs quite counter to this . |
| 11 | Any reduction in North American grain yields has potentially severe consequences for the world grain market in terms of food shortages , especially for Third World nations with poor purchasing power . |
| 12 | The syntheses have been carefully chosen by the author and demonstrate how the unique chemistry of transition metal complexes allows otherwise difficult synthetic transformations to be done efficiently . |
| 13 | But introduction of the TCR- β mutation into the TCR- mutant mice abolishes virtually all DP cells and eliminates SP cells entirely ( Fig. 3 a ) , indicating that TCR -β rearrangement or expression is required for the DN to DP transition , at least in the principal differentiation pathway of αβ T cells . |
| 14 | Sale Harrier Kevin McKay , runner-up to Frenchman Pascal Thiebaut , also missed out and , with Peter Elliott injured and Matthew Yates ill , the battle for metric mile places remains wide open . |
| 15 | Seating is split level , and the menu features mezes fro two at £19.50 and fish from red mullet and swordfish to fresh squid and whitebait . |
| 16 | penetration of the area by larger service vehicles becomes very difficult . |
| 17 | Compared to the purity of the Taj Mahal — the spotless white marble , the unfussy shapes , the perfectly balanced design — Safdarjung 's tomb with its bulbous dome and stained sandstone walls seems somehow flawed and degenerate . |
| 18 | My general view on this matter , as a suitably humble outside observer , is that the student of modem sediments pays too much attention to the way these sediments are laid down , their form and composition , but not enough attention to the question of whether or not they stand any chance of preservation for the stratigrapher of tomorrow . |
| 19 | Bearing these two variables in mind , the argument for age effects becomes less clear and Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that age itself may not be an effective predictor of attainment or even rate of attainment . |
| 20 | The advantage of pressure and volume relations seems more obvious in globular organs such as the bladder and the stomach by use of a barostat . |
| 21 | Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east . |
| 22 | UNIX LABS PLANS YET ANOTHER UNIX EVENT — ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS SHOW IN NOVEMBER |
| 23 | The use of statistical process control by world class manufacturing companies shows how non-financial information can be used to improve performance . |
| 24 | First , any distinction between party officials and state officials becomes very blurred . |
| 25 | But when he discovers from his review of the precedents that mothers already have a legal right to compensation for emotional injury suffered on a direct view of the accident , and therefore that drivers must already insure against causing emotional damage in those circumstances , the question of insurance costs becomes more complex . |
| 26 | The union may then lower wages , which has an additional negative effect on membership ( since the utility loss from paying union dues becomes relatively larger ) . |
| 27 | At 8.30 on a weekday morning , with rain swirling spitefully down , the focal point of the joyride riots seems almost devoid of life . |
| 28 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 29 | The development of methods for the automatic scanning of flow photographs enables far more information to be obtained and is likely to become increasingly important . |
| 30 | As mentioned elsewhere the specific design of transition methods gets too little attention . |