Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 2 | These are reasons or issues which have increasingly come to dominate our discussions within Obair in the past year . |
| 3 | The instincts are known to us as impulses , wishes or desires which seek direct satisfaction , unless they are totally repressed . |
| 4 | Although many deaths arise from natural causes , and many others from illnesses and diseases , each year sees a large number of deaths caused by ‘ accidents ’ , and also a number caused by acts or omissions which amount to some form of homicide in English law . |
| 5 | They agreed to continue their efforts to improve their social life and to discuss openly any disagreements or suspicions which cropped up . |
| 6 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |
| 7 | They showed little interest in attitudes or opinions which explains their insistence on " factual questions " , precise and exact , in order to claim that the research yielded " hard " data . |
| 8 | Few , if any , of them had sons or relatives who took any part in it . |
| 9 | it 's like , it 's either king or knight something , knights or kings something has won a race |
| 10 | These examples at least seem clear ; more often , buildings contain ovens or hearths which suggest bread-making but no other characteristic debris has been recognized . |
| 11 | Housing authorities throughout Britain are required to develop housing plans or strategies which encompass the private sector , and many central government concerns such as the amount of Green Belt land to be made available to developers can be elucidated by the use of local market models . |
| 12 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 13 | The flag has always been a symbol of the militant faith of the Salvation Army and in the early days of the movement invariably became the main target for the larrikins or hoodlums who did their best to destroy the marches and meetings . |
| 14 | There are certain adjectives or quasi-adjectives which make it rather explicit that they are directed at the relation between the entity of the noun phrase and its description . |
| 15 | Examples were given of regular meetings or occasions which enabled workers to identify and keep track of people in the community , regardless of whether they had the status of an active case . |
| 16 | On the Conservative side this element is based in the Smoking Room , and is composed of the men with estates or directorships who do not see the House as their primary source of prestige or income . |
| 17 | Already , member states may not maintain restrictions on the access of , or marketing prohibitions on , products or services which do not comply with national specifications . |
| 18 | Data Protection : as a service to readers , we occasionally make dispatch lists available to carefully screened companies whose products or services we feel may be of interest . |
| 19 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 20 | As a result , the marketing mix must have : Strategic elements ( for instance , the company must decide what kinds of products or services it wishes to produce , given the choices it has made about the target markets it wants to satisfy . |
| 21 | The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history . |
| 22 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 23 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 24 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
| 25 | The seven leading candidates have shunned firm manifesto proposals in favour of vague attacks on foreign creditors or elites who benefit from Brazil 's crippling income disparities . |
| 26 | There are numerous accounts from researchers or trainers who start their contact with dolphins thinking they will teach a dolphin how to communicate with humans , and end up wondering it in Fact the dolphin has been trying to teach us a thing or two about communicating with them . |
| 27 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 28 | Since then , Labour has never made a generous offer of co-operation with other Scottish groups or parties which recognised their differing views on home rule or democracy . |
| 29 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of groups or individuals who have power without actually ruling in the official , visible sense . |
| 30 | Lay readers or elders who have traditionally been given this job may well not be gifted to lead the congregation in the way described above . |