Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And if the infrastructure of schools , health centres , roads and irrigation is to be created , governments will often need to borrow ; such investments are long-term and yield no direct cash returns , so private lenders are unlikely to be keen .
2 Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services .
3 Graphs are available and make the data easier to interpret .
4 Now times are hard and selling the family silver is one way of keeping Harcourt Manor in good condition .
5 The scattered nature of the food evidently makes dispersed foraging essential , since the animals are slow-moving and cover a small area each day .
6 Most clothes shops sell nothing we can wear , and specialist shops are expensive and offer a very limited range of images .
7 The bedrooms are pleasant and have a telephone .
8 All bedrooms are air-conditioned and have a balcony .
9 In the case of families where both husband and wife worked in the textile industry , joint role relationships were common and involved a large amount of sex role equality .
10 The porters were excellent and had the luggage in our rooms by the time we arrived — always the sign of a good hotel !
11 There was a lot of opposition to our work , partly from the Russians because of their Marxist belief in scientific determinism , and partly from people who felt that the whole idea of singularities was repugnant and spoiled the beauty of Einstein 's theory .
12 The activities of these joint working parties was extensive and entailed the substantial involvement of teachers in Scotland in curriculum development work .
13 These foundation-laying elements are context-dependent and constitute the theme .
14 He then runs out of anger and the last lines are hopeless and show a broken mind :
15 Initially , we will set for all i and j , assume all lines are available and take the current line to be row l .
16 The shoes were elegant and suited the dress , adding a touch of much-needed sophistication .
17 His parents were bookish and encouraged the young Roberts in his early interest in science .
18 There was n't a murmur of disapproval from the drug testers — all the ingredients were natural and contained no chemical stimulants .
19 All Ea d transgenic mice lines were healthy and transmitted the Ea d transgene to their offspring .
20 Whilst there are no satisfactory measures of capital stock for this sector its capital needs are large and include a substantial proportion of the real but elusive element of human capital .
21 The two circuits are self-contained and lose no water other than by leaks and evaporation , so no scaling occurs after the initial heating of the water .
22 In the capitalist mode of production , however , the workers are landless and have no independent means of subsistence .
23 Kings Quest VI is far and beyond the best of the series so far the first volumes were original and set the standards for all to follow .
24 None the less , the concepts are powerful and provide a way into understanding the more detailed managerial explanations that follow later .
25 In all cases the final structures are unstable and releasing the constraints results in a passage to the previously optimized B II conformations with ε around -100° .
26 On a happy occasion such as a wedding , jokes and comic stories are welcome and make a particularly good ending for a speech .
27 ‘ The problems are wide-ranging and cover the whole social and economic spectrum .
28 ‘ The problems are wide-ranging and cover the whole social and economic spectrum .
29 The trader has the right to make representations that the goods are safe and to have the notice revoked .
30 However , although the results of validity generalisation studies are impressive and constitute a strong argument in favour of using ability tests for personnel selection , it has yet to be seen to what extent its conclusions will be taken up by practitioners in the field .
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