Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reasons for study are various and include simple personal interest and skill acquisition in connection with present or possible future employment . |
| 2 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 3 | The indices for health are negative — death rates , life expectancy rates , morbidity rates — and they refer mainly to quantitative rather than to qualitative changes of the labour force . |
| 4 | IBM 's plans for DOS are similar . |
| 5 | THE Scottish Milk Marketing Board appeared to acknowledge yesterday that its proposals for change are unacceptable to Government , writes Fordyce Maxwell . |
| 6 | If we choose a different set A , containing kind-of-coat but omitting form-of-fur and length-of-beak , and if the possible values for kind-of-coat are shaggy fur straight fur short feathers long feathers then the whole classification can be completed with just simple concepts because the function kind-of-coat is total . |
| 7 | Persistent calls for justice were unavailing and , exasperated by his lack of success , Bellingham decided upon the extreme course of assassinating the prime minister — a crime carried out , with pistols , coolly and deliberately , in the House of Commons lobby on 11 May 1812 . |
| 8 | Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts . |
| 9 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 10 | Times for study are important but personal things . |
| 11 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 12 | The tactics for resolution are similar . |
| 13 | The concept of long term rotational antibiotics for acne is outdated and this practice should be avoided . |
| 14 | ford comments that other early candidates for relegation are special collections , books published before a certain date , or material in certain formats , e.g. pamphlets . |
| 15 | He is absolutely right that putting clenbuterol into animals for slaughter is bad for the reputation of people in general , bad for the reputation of the Republic of Ireland and particularly bad for the reputation of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Eggs laid by hens during Lent were hard-boiled and given to children to play with . |
| 17 | The demands for text-processing are likely to increase , as the diversity and number of publishing projects increases , and it is hard to see how the present staffing level will cope with the likely workload . |
| 18 | These were the years when unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies were low , demands for labour were high , economic prospects were bright and the belief in science and technology was strong . |
| 19 | This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' . |
| 20 | In educational , professional and business environments the precedents for networking are clear . |
| 21 | Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks . |
| 22 | The Chinese economy is now one of the fastest growing economies and opportunities for business are remarkable . |
| 23 | An ability to identify the opportunities for saving is essential , coupled with a basic understanding of the regulations governing the appeal process . |
| 24 | The thirty six patients who underwent paired physiological tests of anal motor , sensory , and reflex function before and a median of 12 months after operation were typical of patients who undergo elective restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis worldwide . |
| 25 | For example , a sufferer from heroin addiction in recovery is best advised to be totally abstinent from alcohol : the risks of cross-addiction are great . |
| 26 | The number of occasions when prolonged treatment with aminoglycosides is required is small , but in these cases the risks of ototoxicity are high and the costs of failing to monitor for this disabling condition can be considerable . |
| 27 | Besides , the plan was not big enough to convince the banks that the risks of co-financing were acceptable . |
| 28 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
| 29 | His detailed description of the identifying characteristics of alienation is instructive . |
| 30 | We are very fortunate to live near Newmarket where equine veterinary care is taken very seriously and all sorts of equipment is available . |