Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In larvae of the Hymenoptera Apocrita and the higher Diptera the antennae are often reduced to minute tubercles or are atrophied . |
| 32 | Reflexes mediated by the antennae were also discovered by Hollick ( 1940 ) to modify the path of the wing , and therefore the flight-characteristics , of Muscina , but the role of the halteres of Diptera and male Strepsiptera in controlling equilibrium during flight is perhaps the best known of these mechanisms ( Pringle , 1948 ; Schneider , 1953 ) . |
| 33 | As we went towards the final stop on the factory tour , where the clubs were diligently checked by hand , I managed to edge alongside Toby . |
| 34 | The accounts are largely designed to provide information about the returns achieved on that risk investment . |
| 35 | It is ‘ only rarely ’ , he says , that the accounts are fully completed when the auditors arrive . |
| 36 | The accounts were eventually brought before the Review Panel , which took exception to Trafalgar 's decision in the 1991 accounts to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , under current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 37 | Disclose the date on which the accounts were formally approved by the board . |
| 38 | Disclose the date on which the accounts were formally approved by the board . |
| 39 | The date on which the accounts were formally approved by the board should be disclosed in the accounts . |
| 40 | Disclose the date on which the accounts were formally approved by the board . |
| 41 | Disclose the date on which the accounts were formally approved by the board . |
| 42 | are most of the programmes are really to do I would say with displacement activities rather than replacement activities . |
| 43 | The programmes are now registered as providing learning support for NVQs at level 3 ( the Certificate ) and level 4 ( the Diploma ) which means that any students paying their own fees should not be required to pay the 25 per centincome tax component on either the HCIMA assessment fees or the college fees . |
| 44 | The programmes were clearly adapted from where Channel 9 and New Zealand cameras operated , and the original commentary remains , ranging from the gormless and hysterical to the measured , shrewd and ostensibly impartial . |
| 45 | The puppets which first appeared in the sixties became cult viewing when the programmes were recently repeated . |
| 46 | In common with the Minister from the Scottish Office , the Minister rightly says that the institutions are best equipped to know the needs of their students . |
| 47 | The flames were already flickering just beneath the surface , waiting to be fanned into fierce , burning life . |
| 48 | The flames were now extinguished , windows had been opened in the top gallery and the smoke was beginning to dissipate . |
| 49 | The saxophones are rarely employed as a group in the orchestra , but the E flat alto has now and again been used for solos , e.g. in Ravel 's orchestration of Mussorgsky 's Pictures from an Exhibition , Vaughan Williams 's Job and Britten 's Sinfonia da Requiem . |
| 50 | And they can make sure that the wishes are properly carried out . |
| 51 | The position can be unwound once the two prices move together ( which they will , given this type of arbitrage ) by buying the shares and selling the futures , the profit coming from the discount at which the futures were originally bought ( minus transactions costs ) . |
| 52 | Extensive descriptions of the mines are quaintly supplied : |
| 53 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |
| 54 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 55 | The bogies were then wheeled , and the body lowered on the bogies , the vehicle measured and set . |
| 56 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 57 | Chapter 12 will examine the challenge to the notion that the shareholders are uniquely qualified to be holders of residual rights , and the argument that a form of productive organisation in which the trading surplus accrues to the employees rather than the providers of capital is capable of operating no less efficiently , at least as far as the control of shirking is concerned , than the existing corporate form . |
| 58 | The tendency of legal doctrine to permit and even require the directors of a company to weigh the interests of groups other than those of the shareholders is closely allied with the claims that a revolution is occurring in the goals which corporate enterprise sets itself and that corporate managers are assuming for their companies ' social responsibilities . |
| 59 | The problem of legitimacy posed for liberalism by the fact that in reality the managers of a large public company wield power which is unconstrained by the shareholders is quietly ignored by legal doctrine itself . |
| 60 | Agreement could not be reached on a formula that would serve the best interests of the Charity and the discussions were finally closed . |