Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 2 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 3 | Any cliff or headland which faces the direction from which the greatest waves come will obviously be exposed to severe wave attack . |
| 4 | Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter . |
| 5 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 6 | The appendix on useful verbs should come in handy for those not up on adventure jargon , but be careful with the address section — a lot of them are now out of date so be prepared for some lack of response in some cases . |
| 7 | Quantitative measures may allow a discovery of pattern in the situations which might otherwise merely be seen as random variation . |
| 8 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 9 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 10 | Such discrepancies can only be bridged by national funding . ’ |
| 11 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 12 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 13 | In any fairly homogeneous society the meaning of even such basic valuational words as ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ can only be given in such value charged definitions , which point to the society 's shared values . |
| 14 | But a new entity , MODULE can be described which may only be given by one LECTURER and is part of only one COURSE . |
| 15 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |
| 16 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 17 | SVQs will therefore not only be recognised within that industry but will also be regarded as a counterpart of the NVQs accredited by NCVQ in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | ‘ The distribution of the lividity can only be explained in that way . |
| 19 | Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way . |
| 20 | These differences can therefore only be explained by racial discrimination ’ ( p. 16 ) . |
| 21 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 22 | Clearly , spreads can only be compared in one currency sector . |
| 23 | What happens to the rest of Rangers ' season can only be determined by medical examination rather than any other form of analysis . |
| 24 | This would , or course , only be justified for serious disease , but if more benign targetting techniques could be devised , it might be possible to use the liver as a target tissue for any interaction with serum metabolites , such as cholesterol . |
| 25 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 26 | The matter is discussed in detail in Chapter 9 , where it is suggested that the quality of stock on the shelves can only be maintained through extensive stock revision , and that most public library authorities would at present benefit from allocating at least 40% of their bookfunds to stock revision . |
| 27 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 28 | The first , Phan Boi Chau , believed that the French had to be removed — and that this could only be achieved through armed struggle . |
| 29 | Lady Hoby was also a martinet and believed that learning could only be achieved through hard work and discipline . |
| 30 | Co-ordination with the other flyers through a schedule of figures can only be achieved with full understanding , and a strong team leader who acts as a caller to signal all the changes of movement . |