Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an economy with a government sector ( Figure 9.6 ) a net outflow of funds to the government ( where taxes exceed expenditure on a particular day ) results in the banking system being under-liquid . |
| 2 | Cheshire 's ‘ Cost Centre ’ scheme , where schools had control of essentially non-staffing resources . |
| 3 | The remains of engine houses and mining shafts are found over a wide area in this region , as well as ‘ rakes ’ long fissures stretching for miles across the landscape , where miners extracted ore from narrow veins in the carboniferous limestone . |
| 4 | This period is exemplified by the Featherstone shootings of 1893 , where troops opened fire on a group of miners involved in a lock-out , leaving two dead and fourteen wounded . |
| 5 | Just about level with the Straits of Gibraltar and 1,300 kilometres from the Portuguese coast are the Azores , a small group of islands which are entirely built of volcanic rocks , where eruptions took place in 1957 and 1973 . |
| 6 | Beyond the taught courses there are lively seminar programmes within and between departments , where students gain experience in the presentation of research papers , and regular conferences . |
| 7 | This could now be used as a precedent , where developers seek consent for development contrary to policies HP8 and EP5 elsewhere in the Region . |
| 8 | Although discussions took place about a possible return to the former scale of activity , Newlove 's health did not improve and he was physically limited to Wells where either One-Year or Terminal courses continued until 1934 when the WEA branch became inactive . |
| 9 | About 60 p.c. will be A bonds , so investors expecting redemption in 1994 may have to wait several extra years for full repayment : holders are likely to seek higher interest rates as compensation . |
| 10 | Eastern Europe is predicted to be the only place where the number of poor people as a percentage of the total population will actually grow , although figures ignore poverty in the ‘ developed ’ world altogether . |
| 11 | Its no worse than industrialists giving money to Maggie in return for peerages . |
| 12 | For instance , husbands are more likely than wives to have control over the use of the family car , if a car is shared by the household . |
| 13 | At least 20 hypotheses have been proposed , and although arguments linking diversification to oxygen levels , predation , faunal provinciality and ocean chemistry all attract support , it is the case that ‘ The emergence of Metazoa remains the salient mystery in the history of life ’ ( p. 17 , ref. 58 ) . |
| 14 | We evaluated as many young boys as young girls for constipation , but twice as many boys than girls had soiling at follow up , while 1.8 times more girls than boys were still constipated or receiving laxatives for constipation at follow up . |
| 15 | Although measures to devolve power to the provinces were widely advertised , they did not add up to much . |
| 16 | ( b ) Historical Labels Although historians examine evidence in minute detail , they are still forced to generalise about the past . |
| 17 | Women are most affected by this change as they are much more likely than men to receive money from a part-time job while unemployed ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | British evidence demonstrates that women who are ill or handicapped are less likely than men to receive support from formal services or informal sources ( Charlesworth , Wilkin and Durie , 1984 ; Bebbington and Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Women are twelve times more likely than men to get AIDS from straight sex by |
| 20 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 21 | Some universities take longer than others to notify Aslib of thesis titles , and some delay lending theses to the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC ) for microfilming and listing in British Reports , Translations and Theses ( BRTT ) . |
| 22 | Some heads were temperamentally and intellectually less inclined than others to perceive education in terms of grand statements and ringing slogans . |
| 23 | Interestingly but not surprisingly , a higher proportion of men than women took occupation to be the principal factor determining class . |
| 24 | The guarantees , usually secured against the member 's house or some other asset , can be drawn down by Lloyd 's if demands to provide money for paying insurance claims have not been met . |
| 25 | If companies have discretion in making delegated decisions , in what ways might the exercise of that discretion significantly affect others , demonstrating the existence of power ? |
| 26 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 27 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 28 | Although this meant that the investigation required a further step to make the link with what was happening in practice , it also implied that the systemic information base would remain valid even if changes took place to the form of the actual information items . |
| 29 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 30 | If partners withdraw money from the partnership dishonestly , so as to deprive the partnership permanently of its use , they may , of course , be criminally liable and be prosecuted for theft ; see R. v. Bonner[1970] 2 All ER 97 ( CA ) . |