Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is clear from studies in man that either methanogenesis or dissimilatory sulphate reduction predominate in some populations .
2 How can the job holder build on these strengths to improve his/her performance overall ?
3 Would not a more reasonable decision have been to fix the subscription at the direct debit level but offer a discount of £5.00 for payment say within 14 days of the due date ?
4 It seems extreme and many women , for reasons of poverty , children and physical fear remain in unsatisfactory relationships without hope of change .
5 They assert that the years selected for comparison of profits and investment correspond to differing points in the business cycle , making comparison misleading .
6 Again sex and religion combine through anthropological images invested with pain .
7 Because acoustic absorption and the absorption of light depend on different principles , there is no need to boost artificially visual contrast by staining .
8 The terms of each deal vary with individual governments ' performance .
9 We also examined the expression of -300bp deletion construct in younger mice using the NF-H gene as a control .
10 Areas of uncertainty extend to other conditions .
11 A further example would be where the proprietor of a country hotel wishes to expand her business by adding a heated swimming pool , sauna , solarium , etc. to the premises and advertising the establishment as a health club open to non-resident members as well as guests at the hotel .
12 His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years .
13 The new men in the Kremlin might be unsure of themselves and their thinking open to outside suggestions .
14 Four other passages in the Old Testament refer to these events , and there are hints in two of them of something more serious than we seem to have here .
15 Great electrical bursts of dazzling blue and purple light explode behind copious amounts of dense smoke which obscures the entire stage .
16 I 'll cheat myself of the patterns that a beast can register , with its robot-wired mind alert to supernatural vibrations .
17 One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers .
18 what motives prompt collaboration in IRCs ; to what extent does the orientation of IRC research allow for serendipitous discoveries ; what are the implications for control of intellectual property rights ; what is the relationship of the IRC to the rest of the university and to other faculties ?
19 If the traders in a passing-off action operate in different fields of activity , it will usually be assumed that there is less danger of confusion and thus less danger of damage to the plaintiff .
20 Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill
21 In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " .
22 This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe .
23 It should be noted , however , that the problems discussed above with reference to phoneme recognition apply to other units such as syllables as well .
24 However , error introduced into digital map databases through the digitizing process is often ignored because the characteristics of digitizing error have not been fully defined and because no practical means of handling input data uncertainty exist within proprietary GIS software .
25 ‘ By ensuring that these inventions can be patented in all Community countries , this measure aims to encourage research in the context of the large market and to help European industry compete on equal terms with its American and Japanese rivals , who already enjoy such a facility ’ , the Commission declared .
26 Now in his seventies , he and his third wife Shelagh live as genial semi-recluses on the edge of the Sussex Downs , overlooking grand views of the coast .
27 The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul was founded in 1083 , about 50 years before Brother Cadfael 's time ; three huge columns and a wonderfully preserved Norman archway survive from those days .
28 One of the possible kidnapping charges and that of theft relate to two incidents in which Mrs Mandela was part of a group which allegedly abducted three people before assaulting them in the old Mandela home in Soweto .
29 Does absenteeism relate to particular individuals , or to individuals under a particular supervisor ; are there problems with specific buildings , branches or departments ; is it more prevalent on a Monday or after Bank Holidays ? and so on .
30 The cables from the all-purpose I/O and drive controller card stretch across two slots and would make it awkward to fit any tall cards in either of them .
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