Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [n mass] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Requests for staff should be given with the maximum amount of notice . |
| 2 | When these offers were received , it was apparent that the lowest tender considerably exceeded the cost acceptable to the Housing Corporation , who insisted that savings of £170,000 should be made before this lowest price could be accepted . |
| 3 | IXI will also be trotting out its latest release of X.desktop , version 3.5 , which now supports video images so pictures of people can be encapsulated as icons . |
| 4 | After 5 years , your investment plus any bonuses less 5% will be increased by the growth of the FT-SE 100 Index . |
| 5 | In general , groups of people must be allowed to choose their own names : no group chooses to call itself " Red Indians " or " Negroes " , so you should avoid these terms ; " coloured " is generally considered unacceptable by people to whom the term is applied ; etc . |
| 6 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 7 | And these two blocks of people would be united by railway lines and steamships , inseparably associated with each other through the railway station and the port . |
| 8 | ‘ As far as possible , the daily lives of people should be determined by their own decisions about their own timetable . |
| 9 | Both kinds of data may be organised in two ways : a ) On a computer |
| 10 | These fancy varieties of goldfish can be placed in the pond during the warm summer months , but need to be removed when the water temperatures fall below 10–14°C . |
| 11 | Two further years of data will be added to the existing run of 35 years in the archive , a new manual will be prepared for databank users and the project will generate new long-run aggregate series of financial accounts for industries . |
| 12 | While complete series are available for Hertfordshire , Worcestershire and Lincolnshire , staffing changes on the project meant that only 50 years of data could be collected for Durham . |
| 13 | The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table . |
| 14 | Cheques for £8.49 should be made payable to MCA Records Ltd . |
| 15 | Other reasons are that Prestel pages can be included in microviewdata bases alongside pages created by pupils ; Prestel pages on a specific subject Can be downloaded to disk and the disk incorporated into an information package , with slides , tapes and printed materials ; and that Prestel may not always be available in the place where the information is needed , thus downloading allows for flexibility in that , for example , pages of graphics can be used for work in the art department . |
| 16 | Through the annual planning cycle the levels of staff should be adjusted to reflect an equitable distribution of nursing manpower between the specialist units . |
| 17 | When petrological thin-sectioning ( see glossary ) is carried out , many separate items of data may be collected from each artefact studied , making it difficult to see those groupings of artefacts that have features in common . |
| 18 | ‘ A Town 's Pride ’ was reviewed in the Autumn 1990 issue of The Lifeboat and all profits from sales will be donated to the RNLI . |
| 19 | Likewise communications to staff can be standardised without becoming impersonal . |
| 20 | This assumes that patterns and trends which can be identified in past ( historical ) sets of data may be projected forward , especially under stable economic , market and organisational conditions , for the purpose of forecasting perhaps up to one year ahead . |
| 21 | Police and social work records will be searched and members of staff will be interviewed . |
| 22 | Members of staff will be issued with a ‘ lift card ’ which will clock up the number of times staff use the lift . |
| 23 | They will also be organising one or more Open Evenings so that family and friends of staff can be shown round George 1V Bridge and Causewayside . |
| 24 | What is , unfortunately , not clear as a general proposition is whether the controls on RPM should be relaxed , or whether exclusive dealing and so on should be viewed with greater suspicion . |
| 25 | A quarter of the group 's assets worth £339million will be sold to a new listed company , New British Land , which will operate in the manner of the old group and look to expand its portfolio of properties . |
| 26 | Data on bedrock surfaces in desert regions show that on dark rocks temperatures of 80°C can be attained by solar radiation and diumal ranges of 50°C are not uncommon . |
| 27 | Personal service means that greater numbers of staff must be employed and wage costs are higher |
| 28 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
| 29 | Once again , with a minimum of formal rules and supervisory staff , the behaviour — the fuel consumption — of large numbers of people can be kept under surveillance . |
| 30 | This crucial element in Morgan 's evidence is an illusion and there is not the slightest shred of evidence that those societies where large numbers of people can be referred to by the terms for parent are societies where marriage is either more or less individualistic . |