Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flexibility for employers means new chances to save money and to fire unwanted workers . |
| 2 | Our factsheet Will Making for Homeowners gives additional information , but there is no substitute for a solicitor 's reassurance on matters such as this . |
| 3 | She will be expanding her world travel experience and in between times has many interests in and around Glasgow . |
| 4 | Secondly , intravenous infusion of CCK to plasma concentrations comparable with those found after meals induces similar gall bladder contraction . |
| 5 | Looking After Children contains standardised forms for gathering information , plans and review and six schedules for different age groups , called assessment and action records , to chart children 's progress . |
| 6 | This group of comics makes depressing reading indeed , because there is very little interest shown in scientific/technological reality . |
| 7 | The current crop of releases includes two movies that demonstrate the reality today of computer graphics in film , making significant but very different uses of the technology . |
| 8 | The Faculty of Humanities has five Departments : English , Media and Theatre Studies ; European Studies and Modern Languages ; History ; Music ; and Philosophy and Politics . |
| 9 | The high speed flight of birds demands good eyesight , and so birds tend to be diurnal . |
| 10 | One group of birds has particular problems in nest-making . |
| 11 | The use of investigations promotes active learning , the acquisition of transferable skills and articulates well with other educational provision . |
| 12 | People fell sick and died more often than they committed offences against others ; in the overwhelming majority of cases lineages collected contributions , and larger entities were not involved . |
| 13 | The writer of the Book of Hebrews expresses Christian confidence in this way : ‘ Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence , so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need . ’ |
| 14 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 15 | The organisation of a classroom to bring about the acquisition of concepts and the learning of skills requires considerable thought . |
| 16 | The housing market impacts on consumer spending in two ways : directly , in that a higher number of house-moves brings forward purchasing of consumer durables and DIY products ; and in a wider context , because as property values appreciate , homeowners become wealthier and therefore likely to spend more . |
| 17 | Semantic categories are not listed separately , since , as suggested in 2.9 , it is easier to arrive at these through other categories ; we shall , for example , use our lexical categories to find out how choice of words involves various types of meaning . |
| 18 | But more fundamentally , the typical deployment of policewomen affects public expectations of the police . |
| 19 | Anyway , news reaches me of how the most loyal of husbands handles this kind of situation without falling unconscious at the table . |
| 20 | This system of sessions lets certain producers develop young musicians ' talent , and there is a lengthy list of internationally famous rock and pop stars who were helped by a Radio 1 session . |
| 21 | The wider range of styles prompts five vocalists ; Souzay is the least satisfactory , sounding woolier here than on the Fauré set , but again , his intuitive style more than makes amends . |
| 22 | The Song of Songs contains these words : ‘ I slept but my heart was awake . ’ |
| 23 | This paper was probably circulated amongst those interested and Miller 's advice followed , as the Register of Premiums and Bounties of the Royal Society of Arts contains many awards for the cultivation of madder , particularly in East Anglia and Kent , during the years 1755–67 . |
| 24 | A reduction in the number of steps implies less excitation changes and , as we shall see in Chapters 5 and 6 , it is the speed with which excitation changes can take place which ultimately limits the time taken to move the required distance . |
| 25 | Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings . |
| 26 | The use of n-grams requires two stages : firstly the acquisition of lists of n-grams , and secondly candidate strings are checked against the lists as part of the recognition process . |
| 27 | This new , three-level series of readers combines humorous narrative with a play-reading element . |
| 28 | Lelong continues to show recent works by Pierre Alechinsky : twenty feverish variations on the theme of the tree , whose tangle of branches conceals unexpected analogies and metamorphoses . |
| 29 | A greater number of branches means more jobs , and more opportunities for promotion of existing staff . |
| 30 | That old-fashioned , risky art-historical game of influences makes more sense than usual here . |