Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My purpose here is simply to draw attention to two things : first , the danger of oversimplifying the task of evaluation by using a single measure ( for example reading test scores — themselves of dubious validity ) to measure the effectiveness of a practice with much more complex aims ; and second , to emphasise how the evaluation task may be different according to the approach to support teaching which we adopt . |
| 32 | ‘ Where children are given responsibility they are placed in situations where it becomes important for them to communicate — to discuss , to negotiate , to converse — with their fellows , with the staff , with other adults . |
| 33 | There follows a number of examples using forms which are slight extensions of those just discussed : |
| 34 | These pages revealed rituals which , Jessie Weston informed him , had survived the passage From Ritual to Romance , remaining hidden in modern literary forms in the world of Tennyson and Wagner . |
| 35 | They inhabited houses which , in the building boom organised under the strict and uncontrolled power of the Mafia , laughably resembled English houses , with pitched roofs and fireplaces — in a temperature which rarely fell below thirty degrees and a humidity comparable to Brazil 's . |
| 36 | The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered . |
| 37 | Mr Rose asked Marcus what he thought of when he thought of home . |
| 38 | If you do not make notes your mind will have a tendency to wander and you will quickly lose the thread of the ideas with which you are trying to come to terms . |
| 39 | It was a particular , exact colour ; Musgrave had seen it only once before , in a special department of the Bank of England where they incinerated notes which had been taken out of circulation . |
| 40 | Indeed , it is possible that clinicians would treat cases which they find particularly interesting or challenging from a clinical viewpoint , rather than those which offer the most returns ( in terms of health improvement ) in relation to the cost . |
| 41 | We continue to support activities which will improve the quality of life of poor people . |
| 42 | In such a state , he knew , he could make judgments which were almost too pure , too unrelenting . |
| 43 | As she passed Pascoe he pressed play and a voice whispered ‘ … dead . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , but I have no intention of wasting money which is not my own and may never be so . ’ |
| 45 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 46 | There is a third type of choreographer who produces ballets which give audiences great pleasure through the sheer variety of their virtuoso designs . |
| 47 | A case might be made for the Christian church , but there were many more stations than churches , and the railway penetrated cultures which were resistant to Christianity . |
| 48 | Whatever the origin of these views , the groups produced literature which fed such beliefs and this material found a wider readership through the NL . |
| 49 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 50 | In addition to censoring specific targets , the government now holds regular meetings with a broad range of media representatives in an effort to ‘ persuade ’ them not to publicise opinions which are critical of government policies . |
| 51 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 52 | We will make houses which meet high standards of energy efficiency exempt from the first £1000 of stamp duty when they are sold . |
| 53 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 54 | If you 've undertaken improvements which include replacement of soft furnishings — general decorations it is best to check with your local tax office to ensure you are eligible for relief as by themselves , these items do not normally qualify . |
| 55 | I was enthralled , driving through rural Moravia , Bohemia and Hungary , to see houses which seem to have been preserved almost unchanged since their heyday . |
| 56 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 57 | They consist in increments of information , which may or may not modify attitudes which may or may not modify behaviour ’ . |
| 58 | Prior to the tax year which began on Monday , building societies only had to report accounts which paid more than £1,400 with the threshold for National Savings being £250 on investment accounts and £500 on its ordinary account . |
| 59 | Database systems employing symbolic keys for identification of objects have an inherent advantage over less conceptual approaches in handling text whose content is continuously changing . |
| 60 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |