Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many appointed in this way were ex-professional theatre actors or directors who for various reasons ( not always the best ) were interested in transferring to the amateur world . |
| 2 | Some elders may have been obliged to be attached to objects or routines which in some way were exploitative , oppressive or otherwise caused suffering . |
| 3 | They are awarded at five levels with an overlap on Level Three so that Levels One to Three cover craft skills and Three to Five cover technical , managerial and professional tasks . |
| 4 | The child 's developing cognitive capacities mean that events which at one age produce little or no anxiety may , at another , be extremely distressing . |
| 5 | ‘ WONDERS ’ hires an advertising agency to design a logo and emblazons it on 10,000 posters , ten billboards and a million brochures . |
| 6 | This investigation takes a single case of such innovation and subjects it to intensive study . |
| 7 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 8 | Acse 's program then adds information particular to the bank 's accounting procedures to the Edifact message , translates it into a format usable by the bank 's accounting system , and batch-loads it into that application . |
| 9 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |
| 10 | The house was indeed of that later time , but in the style and materials which at first glance indicated a greater age . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 12 | Then the immigrant purchases a large tract of land , and farms it without any expenditure on soil conservation , often without chemical or organic fertiliser , until yields have declined and degradation or erosion has set in . |
| 13 | ‘ The play is a farce , ’ wrote The Times 's critic , ‘ but it openly exposes the violent hatreds , frustrations , and revenges which in normal farce are buried well beneath the surface . |
| 14 | Goods and services which in some countries are circulated by being exchanged on the market are circulated by the state in others ; health care and medicines are a good example . |
| 15 | No telegraph or telephone , just as in early days of railways , when nobody knew where a train might be until it arrived ; a track laid with rails and chairs which in some cases were dated 1865 and ballasted with earth ; semaphores of antique pattern , dropping into the post for ‘ all clear ’ and appearing to be operated on no principle at all … ’ |
| 16 | The new capitalism of the impersonal multidivisional enterprises and the financial institutions deploying employees ' saving has produced a specifically capitalist ‘ socialisation ’ of production , embodied in social forms and practices which in many cases will have to be deconstructed before socialism can be developed . |
| 17 | Not only were lines built to tap it , not only did almost every station become a distribution centre in all those areas where the fossil fuel was vital for domestic and industrial use , but trains themselves in many countries ran on it . |