Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , if the monetary authorities continue to adhere to the policy rule specified in equation ( 7.14 ) , the discrepancy between the actual money supply and the anticipated money supply will be , on average , zero . |
| 2 | Two broad groups seem to emerge from the known evidence ( fig. 8 ) , each with a different level of impact on the defended area itself and on the extra-mural suburbs . |
| 3 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |
| 4 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 5 | The party 's tune has changed , but the means and the objective are still the same , as four devastating bombs have underlined since Wednesday . |
| 6 | In addition to the national parks , AONBs and certain areas in rural Wales , a number of rural authorities have applied for designation as ‘ rural ’ to benefit from such protection . |
| 7 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 8 | Because these three associated religions appear to have in common the belief in one transcendent personal creator , it is often assumed that they all believe in the same God . |
| 9 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 10 | The Directive is needed because wildlife and habitats have undergone terrible declines in much of Europe and the rate of loss is accelerating ( in the UK , 95% of wild flower meadows , 75% of heaths , and 80% of dry grasslands have gone since the war ) . |
| 11 | Extremist ideologies have prospered with the ‘ first past the post ’ system , and deeply unsettled our post-war economy — we are bottom of the European economic league in the post-war performance , and the only nation left with an unreformed electoral system . |
| 12 | Sole traders have to compete with retail multiples ( see below ) who buy in bulk and can therefore afford to offer lower prices |
| 13 | Unit costs for maintained schools have risen in real terms throughout the 1980s — by 42% between 1979–80 and 1988–9 . |
| 14 | Labour supporters have pointed to Darlington council 's latest economic report written by the chief executive and published on March 17 . |
| 15 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 16 | Beginners in Japlish use that sound for both ‘ l ’ and ‘ r ’ , but more advanced speakers learn to distinguish between the two so that they can get them mixed up . |
| 17 | Even to the extent that regional organizations do succeed in moderating the pursuit of purely national goals , as the EC has done , such organizations may themselves develop into power blocs which transpose international conflicts on to another level , in a manner which recalls the imperialist rivalries of the earlier part of this century . |
| 18 | She walked over to where the just-savaged books lay strewn across the floor , and stirred them with the toe of her boot . |
| 19 | It is equally absurd , once the working parties have consulted on content and won substantial professional support for their proposals , for subject departments to claim that content as their own . |
| 20 | In a democratic system political parties expect to alternate in office . |
| 21 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
| 22 | Market indicators show that capital values in public houses have fallen in the past two years by between 50 per cent and 60 per cent . |
| 23 | Many Scottish artists have gone to Paris or Rome to polish their vision before returning to Scotland . |
| 24 | The answer was to form a more tight-knit operations board consisting of the partners running the regional offices and a separate functional board to deal with broader issues . |
| 25 | In public bureaucracies there may be conflicts of interest between different levels of the hierarchy arising from the values which different strata bring to bear on the policies being pursued by the government . |
| 26 | She is unable to gauge his mood , her feminine antennae have folded for the night . |
| 27 | Social attitudes have changed towards women , organisations need to appear progressive and support equal opportunities , eg women 's economic power . |
| 28 | I am aware of cases in my constituency — of course they are rare — where the investigating authorities have gone into matters extremely carefully and at great length while being most careful to ensure that there is no publicity that would be likely to lead to prejudice one way or the other . |
| 29 | Feel the force : peace-keeping operations have changed in emphasis and demand for the UN 's services has risen alarmingly |
| 30 | and er I was just wondering we we ought to do something , I mean these poor old dears have adhered to what we have said and facilities for them to get down onto to the er the . |