Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , however , there appeared to be some ambivalence about whether care programming was aimed at people being discharged from hospital or at a wider range of those who use mental health services . |
| 2 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 4 | From the evidence that is available there seems to be some doubt about whether inspection is methodologically sound ( though this is mainly based on what the inspectors fail to say rather than what they do say ) . |
| 5 | As we shall see , there has been much debate about whether unemployment can be reduced permanently by following policies which increase aggregate demand and in so doing raise the rate of inflation . |
| 6 | There is much controversy over whether temperament is linked to colour — most people are familiar with the assumptions that chestnuts are hot-headed , bays reliable and blacks evil-tempered . |