Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not make any apology for accepting that single millionaires will be at an advantage in that situation , but the millions of people on lowish incomes , particularly the retired , will be penalised most . |
| 2 | Given that urban districts may be subject to geographically uneven patterns of investment and disinvestment , the question arises as to whether urban redevelopment funds are targeted to those neighbourhoods most lacking in capital or those where private revitalisation is already well established . |
| 3 | Approval by the OFT or by the court does not guarantee that individual terms will be considered reasonable if they are challenged under the UCTA 1977 . |
| 4 | We have all gone through the same system ( which seems not to have harmed us ) , and it is difficult to accept that current students should be taught differently . |
| 5 | Some countries , including the United Kingdom , have chosen to provide that outgoing requests must be forwarded through the Central Authority ; others allow local court officials or huissiers to act . |
| 6 | The United States further eased its trade embargo against Vietnam on April 29 with an announcement that commercial sales of food , medicine and agricultural supplies to meet basic human needs would be allowed . |
| 7 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 8 | In respect of non-contractual referrals by GPs , this point is recognised since ‘ … an open-ended commitment on the part of DHAs to meet all non-contractual referrals would be incompatible with both the disciplines which the new system is intended to inject and with control of budgets ’ ( DoH , 1989c , para.3.3 ) . |
| 9 | The Chief Constable did not need to think twice to realise that there was only one place those powerful signals could be coming from . |
| 10 | Yes , where , sorry , Ian Smith , Ryedale District , yes , er where it was considered those allocated sites could be developed without extending development into the greenbelt . |
| 11 | Isotope gastric emptying studies may be useful in clinical practice . |
| 12 | Given an objective of long-term profit-maximisation , it is evident that a broad range of concessions to third party interests that do not promise immediate financial returns may be advisable , and therefore that managers must be allowed considerable scope for discretion in such matters . |
| 13 | Management say any compulsory redundancies will be announced later . |
| 14 | As a result , BP can claim four-fifths of the ‘ elephant ’ find confirmed earlier this month , which is expected to spark a rush by rigs into an area where geologists say other huge reservoirs could be found . |
| 15 | In this way , curriculum improvement to meet special educational needs could be combined with in-service staff development . |
| 16 | For purposes other than electoral forecasting such close estimates would be regarded as highly commendable . |
| 17 | Then a bit lower down it says eight semi finalists will be selected for a final judging in April . |
| 18 | A REPORT urging that premature babies should be allowed to die by neglect has been attacked by the society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) . |
| 19 | A REPORT urging that premature babies should be allowed to die by neglect has been attacked by the society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) . |
| 20 | Unsealed wooden slatted shelves can be treated with caustic cleaner , left in prolonged contact and pressure jet rinsed or brushed vigorously with hot clean water . |
| 21 | THOSE of our readers who drop into a branch of W. H. Smith 's to pick up their copy of New Scientist may not have realised what hotbeds of intellectual ferment these unassuming stores can be . |
| 22 | In order for successful approval to be granted all preferred issues must be changed to either LATEST-ISSUE ( if the module is being changed via this package ) or SELECTED-ISSUE ( if the module is not being changed through this package ) . |
| 23 | Thematic optional units which span several historical periods can be " deconstructed " , broken down into different periods to form special studies which might be followed alongside the appropriate core unit , or used as bridging units to link one core unit with the next . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , even in a crowded warren , visitors in the form of young rabbits seeking desirable dry quarters may be tolerated … and if powerful enough they may obtain and hold a place . |
| 25 | Mao Zedong 's genius was to perceive that beautiful characters could be written upon what he called ‘ this blank sheet of paper ’ . |
| 26 | A majority group inevitably feels , politically if not constitutionally , that it has prior claim on officer advice and loyalty , and a right to expect that professional judgements should be subordinated to party policy . |
| 27 | While it may be straightforward to think of school development planning , teacher appraisal , the identifying of remediable faults and the training or retraining of teachers as one set of loosely connected but manageable disciplines , it is less straightforward but equally urgent to expect that other connections should be more systematically organized in order to give assurances of quality . |
| 28 | To a modern mind , accustomed to expect that important decisions will be communicated without delay to those whom they concern , such a lack of businesslike habits is almost incredible . |
| 29 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 30 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |