Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC Environment Commissioner has reaffirmed his intention to pursue objections to UK road building projects which allegedly infringe EC environmental directives [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 2 | Co-operative Awards in Science and Technology ( CAST ) are postgraduate research studentships which specifically support students working on research projects jointly devised and supervised by an academic department and a collaborating body such as private firm or public body . |
| 3 | A 200 000 year-old stone scraper from Iraq , now belonging to a museum in Chicago , revealed thick blood residues which still have cell structure , showing mammalian origin . |
| 4 | Vibration in the suspension is minimised by special front subframe mountings and pendulum-type engine mountings which effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the road wheels . |
| 5 | A band 's early live dates may attract interest from management companies who already have artists signed to record companies . |
| 6 | There is also a range of specialist bodies which similarly represent aspects of local government at national level — for example , the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives ( SOLACE ) . |
| 7 | This allows the practice to compare total income per job against total time-cost and to identify job types which consistently show imbalance . |
| 8 | These polymers can form intermolecular hydrogen bonds which greatly enhance crystallite stability . |
| 9 | Otherwise , the issue will be put to a vote which also includes the world 's 20 smaller cricketing nations who currently lack Test status . |
| 10 | A successful £13.1m rights issue in January this year helped offset the £14.2m spent on acquisitions designed to focus the business on over the counter products which now comprise 25pc of group turnover . |
| 11 | The silence is deafening as usual — especially from the wanker bands who freely exploit CND logos and all manner of love and flowers imagery to cream in the profits on the back of people who put their fucking arses on the line for the self same cause . |
| 12 | The silence is deafening as usual — especially from the wanker bands who freely exploit CND logos and all manner of love and flowers imagery to cream in the profits on the back of people who put their fucking arses on the line for the self same cause . |
| 13 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 14 | You do , of course , need to have replay facilities which also have stereo sound to do justice to this type of audio recording . |
| 15 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 16 | warm-up questions which also provide practice for the Interview , Paper 5 |
| 17 | This explanation is not entirely convincing , however , since it overlooks the important industry and workplace negotiations which also take place . |
| 18 | This might not trouble Hewlett-Packard , IBM and those other workstation makers who also make PCs . |
| 19 | Besides the Dresser drawings , the Met 's exhibition features other notable groups of designs , which Johnson has tellingly juxtaposed with similar examples by different ‘ schools ’ : several rug designs by 1920s British designer Eileen Gray are placed near a group of anonymous Bauhaus rug designs which strongly suggest Klee ; fabric patterns by such diverse talents as the American painter Stuart Davis , French couturier Paul Poiret and anonymous masters from the Wiener Werkstatte are remarkably similar , as are finely finished watercolours for furniture by the American L. and J.G. Stickley Company and Swedish designer Erik Gunnar Asplund . |
| 20 | Nitrate , while relatively innocuous , is kept at acceptable levels by partial water changes ( or by introduction of sintered glass filters which ingeniously provide conditions for both the aerobic bacteria which transform ammonia into nitrate but also dispose of nitrate producing nitrogen in the process ) . |
| 21 | To prevent and treat health problems which adversely affect quality of life in old age . |
| 22 | For species that can not afford to spend million of years perfecting their architectural designs , RANDOM ACCESS can provide a range of CAD systems which certainly add creativity as well as speed to the design process . |
| 23 | It is in fact much closer to the rate paid on tax deposit certificates which currently offer 7% gross 5.25% net . |
| 24 | Quality system procedures which also include project quality plans . |
| 25 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 26 | When managers are asked to describe some of their problem employees they often use phrases like : lazy ; poor motivation ; negative attitude ; obstructive ; aggressive and so on . |
| 27 | The two watchmen were in a van , radio-equipped of course , but unfortunately the particular area was under some overhead power cables which badly affect radio for some distance around . ’ |
| 28 | These are mainly party intellectuals who still profess communism , but want it to be less centralising and more democratic . |