Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun pl] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 2 | Dr Mawhinney told MPs in a Commons written reply : ‘ This impressive contribution from GPs and their practice teams is exactly the sort of response we are looking for to take forward our plans to improve the nation 's health . ’ |
| 3 | All work on aircraft and their association equipments is carefully controlled , all activities are signed for and the resulting work cards are legal records of the work carried out . |
| 4 | The right of tenants to buy their council houses is already the new consensus and Mr John Patten 's initiatives promise the end of Town Hall controlled estates and a revival of the private rented sector . |
| 5 | But what their reaction shows is just how little awareness there was among Britain 's film executives of cinema 's artistic potential , and how little discussion had gone on about what sort of cinema British producers should develop . |
| 6 | The electric/hydraulically powered adjustable wheelbase will stay for certain , and the recycled aluminium structure with its plastic panels is here and now technology . |
| 7 | One employer remarked in 1902 that : In regard to girls from Board Schools , our experience in regard to their reading powers is exactly the reverse of that of the boys , most of them being able to read both print and manuscript with ease and accuracy . " |
| 8 | The semantic integrity or cohesion of a collocation is the more marked if the meaning carried by one ( or more ) of its constituent elements is highly restricted contextually , and different from its meaning in more neutral contexts . |
| 9 | A new study by Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley at Oxford University provides the first good evidence that the ability to analyse a word into its constituent sounds is most important in the early stages of learning to read ( Nature , vol 301. p 419 ) . |
| 10 | Industries like gas , electricity , telephone and water supplies are regarded as natural monopolies because duplicating their supply networks is extremely costly . |
| 11 | Kirkland is of the same sort of ‘ mainstream ’ school as Geoff Keezer and his curriculum vitae is also impressive ; he 's played with both Wynton and Branford Marsalis , as well as in the pop arena with Sting 's group ( on the ‘ Dream of Blue Turtles ’ album , along with Branford ) and with David Sanborn , among others . |
| 12 | The result of this dichotomy is that the employer who can rely on the right to protect his business secrets is much more likely to succeed in court than when he seeks to enforce a traditional restraint of trade clause . |
| 13 | What his revelation claims is either true or false . |
| 14 | The Freud who emerges from these recollections of one of his prize patients is evidently quite sincere , ‘ liberal ’ in a Hampstead-ish way , thoroughly well-intentioned , but dogmatic , arrogant and autocratic . |
| 15 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 16 | To imagine that there is er a great undercurrent of violence inside our football grounds is now quite wrong and I think the game is n't getting enough credit for the way in which it 's tackled it . |
| 17 | In many ways the life and work of our Town Halls is much more accountable to the public than that of central government . |
| 18 | Understanding the ins and outs of all your mortgage options is never simple , but we have made it as easy as possible in the comprehensive Money Matters section starting on page 20 . |
| 19 | the best way forward for our customers , for AEA and for our Government owners is either a public flotation or a private placement combined with a measure of employee ownership ( open to all employees at the time of flotation ) . |
| 20 | How and where you set up your Storage Directories is entirely a matter of personal preference ( and system restrictions ! ) , but we would make two VERY strong recommendations , as follows : |
| 21 | Management of our computing activities is under tripartite control by the Garden Secretary , the Librarian , and the Taxonomic Computing Project Leader . |
| 22 | The standards of cleanliness and hygiene in our feed mills is now expected to be close to human food factories , and this is monitored by the Company 's Quality and Service audits . |
| 23 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 24 | We are sharing this year 's Sponsored Event with the Asthma Research Council ( our official 1989 fund raising event ) Your support and that of your class members is urgently needed — contact at the Office for tickets and sponsor forms — NOW . |