Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb base] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Still , higher education contains within itself , if only it would realize , an essential rationality : academics , students and disciplines have to be rational .
2 The register and index have to be open for inspection during business hours by any member without charge and by any other person on payment of a small fee and a copy of it or any part of it has to be supplied to anyone on payment of a modest charge .
3 We want our system , just as surely as France and Germany want to be free to enjoy their systems .
4 Both individuals and employers need to be certain that SCOTVEC 's qualifications are :
5 In addition Eleanor and Marie appear to be central figures in a treatise entitled De Amore written by Andrew , a chaplain at the court of Champagne in the early 1180s .
6 Because of the extra loads imposed by the diesel process of compression — ratios of 21.5:1 in the Ford diesels at ignition , more than double those of their comparable petrol engines — cylinder blocks and crankshafts have to be stronger , heavier and therefore costlier .
7 Key farm workers such as foremen and stockmen need to be close at hand to the farm and in these locations there are often very few other dwellings available .
8 There is an ever-growing amount of musical material in this genre and musicians and clergy need to be wise and selective in their choice of it .
9 Children go through various stages of obedience and disobedience as they develop and parents need to be aware that direct confrontation may not be the best method of handling the situation .
10 First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family .
11 In this world sadness and joy seem to be inverted , and the soul is transported by strange emotions .
12 The fruits and seeds tend to be small .
13 For other parameters , including the experimentally accessible C = — 20 , similar behaviour is seen , except that the breathing and spiking seem to be absent .
14 In her letter ( ‘ Punchbag ’ 12 — 18 February ) Mrs H M Presley defends the monarchy and attacks Punch for being cynical : a trait unbecoming in what she describes as a ‘ reputable ’ magazine .
15 In fact , psychology and biology have to be equal partners in our analysis of the brain .
16 Counselling requires varied skills , and counsellors need to be able to empathise with people ( which is not the same as sympathising — empathy requires seeing the world from another person 's point of view without judgement or criticism ) and to accept their clients by suspending judgement so that people feel valued .
17 One reason which can be given for this is the claim that a head is simply a functionary and that his or her views and judgements have to be variable for the sake of other people .
18 Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away .
19 Such models and sub-cultures tend to be conservative because they are part of a process of long-term cultural transmission , going back through previous cohorts and even generations .
20 Leases are long , perhaps 25 years , and tenants agree to be responsible for general insurance and repairs .
21 Languages and stuff seem to be boring .
22 Prisons , particularly long-term high-security prisons , are not made easier to manage if they contain prisoners passionately proclaiming their innocence and who fellow prisoners and staff believe to be innocent .
23 They must also offer confidentiality and staff need to be nonjudgmental and ready to offer help , whether or not the individual is ready to ‘ kick the habit ’ .
24 There needs to be personal contact when things have gone wrong , the head and staff need to be generous in their apologies when they make mistakes .
25 By the development of the ward programme , the full potential of the resource will be realized ; but to plan an effective programme , the ward sister and staff need to be aware of the advantages and problems of bedside learning .
26 Professor Ian Craft , of the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre , said : ‘ The law needs to be amended and people need to be aware of the problem . ’
27 Computer products are relatively much cheaper in the US than in the UK , and Americans tend to be more computer literate .
28 This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it .
29 Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in .
30 Both males and females seem to be innovating in this Scottish instance and the females are quite clearly the innovators in a prestige [ i.e. r-pronouncing ] form .
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