Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities as employers may for example , wish to consider attracting workers from other European countries . |
| 2 | Representations of system-sentences may of course be used in metalinguistic discussion of the structure and functions of language : and it is such representations that are customarily cited in grammatical descriptions of particular languages . |
| 3 | The analysis of required skills ought in principle to have an ergonomics input but in practice it is usually done on the basis of experience of similar system designs in the past . |
| 4 | Each of the sub-units may in turn be decomposable into sub-sub-units and so on , until non-decomposable words or morphemes are encountered . |
| 5 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |
| 6 | As a result , the interests of the subordinate social groups may at times prevail over those of capital ; at the very least , such interests affect the form and outputs of the policy process . |
| 7 | At the very least , however , unpalatable though the proposals may at present be , they may prove more acceptable than the alternative already foreshadowed by Sir Adrian Cadbury should his own committee 's voluntary code fail to command compliance — the even more unpalatable prospect of governance by legislation . |
| 8 | This suggests that such states may in fact occur in other situations such as the ones they suggest ( e.g. taking a walk or engaging in a routine activity ) . |
| 9 | Michel Gien , chairman of EurOpen , points to recent examples of the private sector following government procurement policy as evidence that European business is showing interest : decisions such as that by a group of car manufacturers led by Peugeot and Renault to specify certain open systems criteria in contracts should in turn have knock-on effects for open systems take-up . |
| 10 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |
| 11 | The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | In addition to current and capital accounts , appropriate local authorities must by law maintain separate accounts dealing with such services as housing and transport . |
| 13 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 14 | But , ironically , there is evidence that these ‘ efficient ’ methods may in fact turn out to be less reliable than their less efficient counterparts . |
| 15 | Consequently , in areas with high ammonia emissions , acidification of soils and lakes may in part be attributed to deposition of ammonia and ammonium ions . |
| 16 | Lawyers representing children and other parties may on occasion find it helpful to refer to these publications . |
| 17 | With this in mind , what methods should in fact be familiar to you ? |
| 18 | Collusion , which used to be a bar to divorce , is no longer prohibited , and indeed a Committee chaired by Mrs Justice Booth recommended in 1985 that the parties should in future be entitled to file joint petitions for divorce . |
| 19 | ( d ) Offices and employments As a matter of prudence , agreement should be reached at an early stage in the life of any firm whose partners , or some of them , are likely to find themselves appointed to some professional or public office as to : ( 1 ) whether remuneration from such offices should in principle be accounted for as part of the profits of the firm ( Clause 10.06 ) ; and ( 2 ) the amount of time any partner should be permitted to devote to such activities ( before his profit share suffers some downward adjustment ) . |
| 20 | Such pressure on places in both the acute and community sectors might in turn lead to a squeeze on the provision of respite care . |
| 21 | Because of the life/dinner principle , animals might at times behave in ways that are not in their own best interests , manipulated by some other animal . |
| 22 | More analytically , pluralist methods might in theory uncover conspiracy by an elite by investigating observable decisions , and the fact that in various studies they did not find evidence of narrow conspiratorial elites led pluralist community power researchers to conclude that a more flexible competitive and open system prevailed . |
| 23 | If , however , the primary purpose is to train scientists , then the criteria used to select candidates might in future be based on peer review of the departments , and a personal assessment of those candidates , rather than on the putative scientific value of the projects submitted for consideration . |
| 24 | If , however , the primary purpose is to train scientists , then the criteria used to select candidates might in future be based on peer review of the departments , and a personal assessment of those candidates , rather than on the putative scientific value of the projects submitted for consideration . |
| 25 | However , where both parties are acting as businessmen , both parties could in theory incur " business liability " , and thus become subject to s 2(1) . |
| 26 | So the dinosaurs could in theory have continued to pile on genetic advantages . |
| 27 | As the paper was to be printed on contract presses with pages faxed across electronically , its editorial offices could in theory be based anywhere . |
| 28 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 29 | He pointed out that the ores raised from greater depth would be at a greater expense though the Royalties would in fact increase . |
| 30 | Because these concessions would in effect make China a partner in running Hong Kong before 1997 , the British say no . |