Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic principle under English law is that the law which the parties intend to apply will govern the agreement . |
| 2 | Since there have been very significant changes in population structure and family composition over the last two centuries , any discussion of how family relationships have changed must always acknowledge that we are not comparing like with like — an observation which of course itself calls into question the over-simplified view of a gradual deterioration of family ties from pre-industrial society to the present day . |
| 3 | And TV cameras homing in on incidents referees have missed can only make the officials feel a little incompetent . |
| 4 | Governors are now required to produce annual reports and to organise parents ' meetings at which the reports and any other matters parents wish to raise may be discussed . |
| 5 | There may , and probably will , come a time when individual items in the accounts which the defendants have submitted will be the subject of an objection on which the court must adjudicate . |
| 6 | Thus a detailed knowledge of the material conditions in which communities have lived will tell us about the constraints under which they have laboured ; and this in turn will help us to understand some of their properties . |
| 7 | All full-time employees ( ie those having a normal working week of 20 hours or more , or 25 hours for directors ) who are with the Company or any of its subsidiaries which the Directors have decided will participate , and who have at least two years ' service to complete before retirement , may be eligible to participate at the discretion of the Directors . |
| 8 | Detailed records about what social workers have established may be highly relevant here . |
| 9 | The numbers have not , however , fallen significantly , and in 1977 there were still 44,100 adults aged sixteen and over in mental handicap hospitals in England , and recent decreases in these numbers have not been anywhere near as rapid as successive governments have proposed would be the case . |
| 10 | This dimension to social policy is especially relevant to the question of how public intervention in the lives of families where child care difficulties have arisen can be most effective . |
| 11 | Just how COSE II and COSE III will turn out remains unclear , although a systems management working group COSE firms have initiated will likely be a vehicle for these developments . |
| 12 | But the ambivalence that some studies have shown must call into question the relative importance of the history of family attitudes to bedwetting as perhaps being equally or more important than any postulated physical reasons . |
| 13 | While discussions of what astronomers expect to find can only be expressed in terms of what they already know , those working on IRAS clearly hope that the satellite will make exciting new discoveries . |
| 14 | When house prices begin to rise again , all the assured shorthold tenancies in properties whose prices have risen will suddenly look unattractive . |
| 15 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
| 16 | What my noble and learned friends have said will , however , enable me to express myself quite shortly . |
| 17 | In the Garden : Drawing the line at great design : Anna Pavord delves into a book that reveals the gardens architects have imagined could accompany their creations |
| 18 | Some of the things that children need to learn can no doubt be mastered by drill and practice under the control of a teacher . |
| 19 | However , I am equally sure that the qualifications and experience that those apprentices have gained will stand them in excellent stead in achieving employment when they come to look for jobs . |
| 20 | This essential characteristic of a rational expectations equilibrium — the efficient use of the relevant available information — suggests another criterion for rationality : the method that agents employ to predict should have a variance smaller than or equal to any other rival method of predicting . |
| 21 | They are concerned that agency staff and new staff who do n't know what the women have achieved will undermine progress , or even reverse it , by underestimating their capabilities . |
| 22 | The early symptoms of political games occur even in very small organizations but by 500 people nearly every political game that researchers have identified will be present . |
| 23 | In effect , he argued that the policy changes in China that Democrats want to see can be achieved through better mechanisms than attaching conditions to MFN status . |
| 24 | For example , a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers . |