Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 2 | No do n't play trampolines sit down please now ! |
| 3 | Corporate finance that looked right under the old rules can look drastically wrong if the rules change |
| 4 | Financial decisions — how much to borrow , how much to lend , at what price — made under one set of rules and incentives go wrong when the rules change . |
| 5 | World Cup rules change |
| 6 | ‘ The moment database vendors come out with versions that do it automatically , the rules change , ’ it says . |
| 7 | Rules change on pets likely |
| 8 | New EEC rules change light dues |
| 9 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 10 | Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs . |
| 11 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 12 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 13 | Another method of subordination is a prohibition on repayment of the debt whilst other creditors remain unpaid . |
| 14 | Conversely , some depressive states make colours seem dulled and flat . |
| 15 | Snyder ( 1982 , Appendix B ) lists 20 map projections used by the US Geological Survey , and individual states make use of their own projections and grids . |
| 16 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 17 | Although all the activities lack security , they vary in the extent of their irregularity and in the nature of the work involved . |
| 18 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 19 | ‘ The Community proposals mean that one out of ten farmers set aside land in the rest of Europe compared to six out of ten in the UK . |
| 20 | The proposals mean that joint local planning and action will continue to be essential , but that responsibilities and accountability for the plans and action will be clearer than they are now … it must be emphasised that effective co-operation at the local level will be essential , both to the success of individual projects and , more broadly , if the whole range of community care services is to be delivered effectively . |
| 21 | The proposals mean that , for the first time , parents can name their preference for a school , including ordinary ones — and backed up by a new appeal system . |
| 22 | Prestigious scholarly and popular series are being continued , German Expressionists , Picasso and the art of the Middle Ages remain safe favourites . |
| 23 | Associates tend to veer away from their markets . |
| 24 | Run-down primitive rituals stalk ‘ The Hollow Men ’ ; in Sweeney Agonistes they overpower jazz-age London . |
| 25 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 26 | The two comets are entirely ablated , whereas the stony objects lose most of their kinetic energy to deceleration , not ablation . |
| 27 | Since institutions tend to be affected in the same way by the same set of factors , share prices will be more volatile than would otherwise be the case . |
| 28 | Isolated nuclei display an ATP-dependent uptake of calcium , of which 20% was subsequently released by InsP 3 ( ref. 138 ) . |
| 29 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock is uninterested in finding a visionary ‘ big idea ’ for the party ; he is convinced that Labour 's values remain popular . |