Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] [noun] [be] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This would arise where depreciation charges were less than principal repayments would have been .
2 Unless nitrogen pollution is significantly reduced , many of the rare plants for which conservation sites were designated or nature reserves were set up will disappear .
3 The aim is to find where group profits are maximised , and this is when :
4 In justifying their policies , however , they sometimes stooped to making public statements that were palpable nonsense : denying that space heating was a peak load , and devoting efforts commensurate with those of the ostrich to shift discussion to more defensible territory .
5 Most of the above theories suggest that leadership style is a question of choosing between two or more mutually exclusive leadership alternatives eg either democratic or authoritarian .
6 The lagged dependent variables suggest that adjustment costs are of importance whilst the presence of lagged determinants of the desired stock suggests that there is more in the data than a simple first-order partial adjustment model might permit .
7 These faceless academics suggest that marking standards are falling .
8 These results , were bore no relation to visible bacillary form mycobacteria or spheroplasts , suggest that M paratuberculosis was present in the original intestinal tissues of the Crohn 's disease patients , in a form which hardly replicated in broth culture , it at all .
9 We therefore suggest that bleomycin cleavage is , at least in part , determined by some structural feature of the dinucleotide step so that cutting is facilitated by regions of alternating purines and pyrimidines .
10 Our results suggest that heater probe is an effective and safe procedure in the prevention of recurrent haemorrhage in peptic ulcer with a non-bleeding visible vessel .
11 The data suggest that gender role is influential .
12 Less variable results were obtained with back titration and for these reasons , we suggest that back titration is the analytical technique of choice for determining alkali concentrations in saliva and oesophageal fluid .
13 Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres .
14 It is not surprising , in view of these figures , that surveys made in 1608 suggest that Crown rents were often 60 per cent below an economic rental .
15 They suggest that specialist teams are blown off course , that their promise to create a new order of services is confounded by the established order , that their activities are shaped by a " politics of the tenable " rather than a politics of good practice .
16 However , we suggest that slab melting was not involved in producing the Cordillera Blanca magmas .
17 Initial reports suggest that visitor numbers were down on previous years , but that the quality of enquiry was high , helped by the positive reaction of visitors responding to specific areas of business on display .
18 None of these approaches suggest that group politics is without substantial defects .
19 Our findings suggest that tumour activity is not a major cause of the lowered serum cholesterol values seen in most of our patients .
20 They suggest that vulnerability factors are usefully conceived as only raising the risk of depression in the presence of a provoking agent .
21 Roderick et al ( 1982 ) in their study of unqualified mature entrants in British universities suggest that drop-out rates are high , but are unable to provide clear figures providing national comparisons of qualified and unqualified students .
22 Other studies suggest that personality disorders are relatively uncommon in anorexia nervosa .
23 Local press reports suggest that forest reserves are currently being exploited four times faster than the law allows .
24 Recent studies suggest that ozone depletion is to blame for widespread blindness among sheep in southern Chile , on the edge of the Antarctic ozone hole .
25 Earlier — and still persuasive — analyses suggest that fertility decline was precipitated by a crisis in the ability to maintain rising standards of living ( Banks 1954 ) .
26 We do not know that market motivation is more effective in promoting high standards of care than professional value systems , ethical standards and organisational traditions of public service , professional and peer review , inspectorates , public criticism and evaluative research .
27 The hon. Gentleman should know that advertising money is being spent and electoral registration officers are working hard to ensure that their electoral registers are up to date and accurate .
28 These authors studied the effects of high insulin concentrations on prostacyclin production by rat aortic rings in vitro and demonstrated that prostacyclin production was significantly reduced in the presence of insulin at concentrations of 2500 , 500 and 250 μU/ml ( Lasche & Larson , 1982 ) .
29 A policy on home monitoring for this large group of patients should recognise that self monitoring is no longer the principal means of assessing glycaemic control but is , rather , a tool that can offer reassurance or warn of problems during the intervals between measurements of longer term control .
30 My right hon. Friend will recognise that mine counter-measures is a hazardous undertaking — the penalty for getting it wrong is a very large bang and lots of little bits .
  Next page