Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students are reminded that their eventual employers will expect them to have made good use of their time at university . |
| 2 | There is , then , yet a third way of being systematic with regard to project work , and that is for a school to work out a definite policy on how it should be approached and which particular skills should be stressed at which levels . |
| 3 | Scully , Wakefield 's experienced scrum-half , gained 50 yards in a magnificent run ; but when he released the ball it was dropped and their last hopes faded . |
| 4 | For this reason , the draft Regulation provides that , where an SE is superimposed on two or more other companies as a new holding company , there will be an easy mechanism for the resultant merger , with both original companies being automatically dissolved and their former shareholders automatically becoming members of the SE : this is similar to a British Scheme of Arrangement approved by the High Court . |
| 5 | In our present study , a disulphated derivative of PABA-UDCA was synthesised and its basic characters were investigated . |
| 6 | The man had every caution given him not a minute before to be careful with the gun , but his time was come as his poor shipmates say and with that they console themselves … |
| 7 | Certainly , many contemporary physicists — most prominent being Fritjof Capra author of the acclaimed ‘ Tao of Physics ’ — have realised that their scientific discoveries were anticipated by ancient mystics and sages . |
| 8 | The combination of spiritual , cultural , and economic influence at its disposal made the Russian Church in some ways better placed than its Western counterparts to resist the ambitions of the newly centralized State . |
| 9 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 10 | Options are not transferable and may only be exercised by the persons to whom they were granted or their personal representatives . |
| 11 | After failing to reach an agreement over the rent with Belle Vue 's new owner , David Butters , the committee has decided that their faithful followers should be the ones to vote on the club 's fate . |
| 12 | I do n't think he will ever do another Love Story , but having accepted that his gutsy sagas are OK . |
| 13 | The bank 's accounts have just revealed that its intangible assets have shrunk alarmingly . |
| 14 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 15 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 16 | Having said that my two roles models , if you like , are Jean-Pierre Rives and Michael Jones . |
| 17 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 18 | Table 3.1 lists the four factors which determine the financial status of elderly people — employment , state benefits , private savings , and family transfers — and it can be seen that their relative shares have changed over time , with the decline in employment income roughly matching the rise in state benefits . |
| 19 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 20 | A chest X-ray or more detailed tests can be done if there any indications . |
| 21 | The book was never written and his only publications were two pamphlets , A Guide to the Electors of Great Britain , upon the Accession of a new King ( 1820 ) and Letters of Lord John Russell , upon the original formation of the House of Commons ( 1826 ) in which he declared for a thorough reform of the close boroughs he had always represented . |
| 22 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 23 | Omi 's old head was bowed and her gnarled fingers were pressed together in prayer . |
| 24 | It is an obvious guess that these are social signals of some kind — instructions to the rest of the shoal , summons to mates — but much more work has to be done before their exact functions are properly understood . |
| 25 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 26 | The six lambs have to be handreared as their natural mothers have enough to cope with . |
| 27 | The fees vary from about £10 to £40 per session , depending on the trainer 's skills , how much in demand he or she is , the distance travelled and what some trainers assess you can afford . |
| 28 | As in Britain , again , the French wartime propaganda effort was improvised and its full potentialities seen only slowly ; but in France also the growth in the sheer amount of activity was striking . |
| 29 | There was police intervention almost immediately ; an NILP loudspeaker van , which was making announcements , was stopped and its three occupants were taken to Victoria RUC station where , one of them later told the Belfast Telegraph , they were charged with incitement to defy the ban on the march . |
| 30 | Even their teeth are differently arranged and their front teeth are divided like combs , either for straining juice from fruit or for grooming . |