Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A surprising fact is that 65 per cent of the UK is supplied with hard water , a situation which means that a high proportion of hotels , restaurants and other institutions are faced with hard water problems which are costing them hard earned revenue .
2 At least 90% of all Chardonnay vines in Champagne are trained by this method .
3 Antineutrons are expected by some particle physicists , who believe on theoretical grounds that neutrons could change into antineutrons on their way from the Sun to the Earth .
4 Safety , health and environmental protection are considered at each stage .
5 This arrangement gives tremendous rhythmical force and point to full chords of this kind on the wind and brass , especially when chords of three notes are given to each string group ( except of course , the double basses ) .
6 Most bank notes are printed on special paper that makes forgery more or less impossible , although with the passage of time , new notes have to be issued to replace worn-out and frayed paper notes .
7 However , as there are only six notes in the system it is obvious that in four-part harmony without octave doublings only two notes can remain unused in each chord , and in five-part harmony only one note ; in six-part harmony all notes are used in each chord , even though the registers change .
8 The Acts are arranged in chronological order under the heading , so the Children Act 1975 is found near the end of the group .
9 New acts are attracted by First Division managers because we are visible and our addresses are in Music Week .
10 Tubercle bacilli are included in this table , in a single line , without information about the strain used and whether it was virulent or not .
11 Every year 25 billion tonnes of topsoil are lost through large-scale farming techniques — seven per cent of the world 's soil every decade .
12 The role of the carboxy-terminal helix face in operator binding was unclear , but we demonstrate that recognition of operator sequences occurs through side chains in the β -strand motif and that dimer-dimer interactions are required for effective repression .
13 No one is quite certain who invented Fair Isle knitting patterns , or the steps of the maypole dance where ribbons are woven round each other .
14 These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice .
15 Many of the discussions are couched in educational jargon that effectively excludes many ‘ jobbing doctors ’ who do so much of the teaching .
16 If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour .
17 In a similar way , the idea of plurality can not be defined in terms of the conditions under which objects are differentiated from each other .
18 Manual returns are sent to head office , and data for consolidation entered into Microsoft Excel to produce management accounts .
19 If such passions are aroused in this Chamber today , there must be real concern about what will happen when it is discussed throughout the country .
20 For the lay congregation , scriptural accounts are regarded as literal history , a self-contained story no less true for being divorced from an historical context .
21 Separate accounts are made for each person and for each class of asset , liability , profit or loss .
22 For examples of using run-outs , see the speed cruiser cake recipe on page 73 ( the lifebelts are made by this method ) .
23 However , it does mean that if you develop a life-threatening condition , you will have the reassurance of knowing that your wishes are recorded in written form if you become unable to express them .
24 Let me emphasize here that functionalists are happy to accept that many of our mental states are associated with conscious awareness .
25 A significant number of the HNCs and HNDs within the SCOTVEC provision are offered by one college only .
26 Cooker hobs are made from this sort of thing … and obviously missiles need to withstand a lot of heat from friction with the air . ’
27 The first three chapters of I Corinthians are dominated by this problem .
28 These adaptive coping skills are differentiated from maladaptive coping skills , such as the long-term use of tranquillizers , abusing alcohol , food and drugs , avoiding situations , and behaving in a passive , non-assertive manner .
29 Specifically sociological skills are required in diverse research posts associated with education , medicine , urban planning and the social services .
30 Much work is being undertaken there , including the renovation of outbuildings to provide accommodation for another 25 followers , and practical skills are put to good use .
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