Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parcel bombs sent in early 1990 to a retired Army officer in Valencia , to a prosecutor who had investigated the 1987 Barcelona supermarket bombing [ see p. 35851 ] , and to the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , were defused . |
| 2 | Colchester clothiers had indicated their intention of prosecuting weavers who did not return the " thrums " , the web ends left in the loom after the cloth had been removed . |
| 3 | But the real job ( rather than the ideal version articulated by younger men ) is , as we shall see , much less about the application of science and technology to the measurement and control of pollution than the use of negotiating and bargaining skills to secure compliance . |
| 4 | This may be when settlement patterns began to stabilise . |
| 5 | The Manpower Planning Information System , to hold staff records By means of direct work measurement using a stop watch , a database of standard times for branch activities has been assembled . |
| 6 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 7 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 8 | As the controversy grew yesterday over the alleged Princess Diana love tapes , electronics experts told the Mirror just how easy it is to eavesdrop on mobile phones . |
| 9 | For some years in the public sector and just beginning in the university sector , we see academics willing to have their teaching activities subjected to the face-to-face evaluation and commentaries of their peers . |
| 10 | The lawsuit asks the court to order the state registrar of vital records to inspect all documents concerning Presley 's death , including an autopsy report that Tennessee courts have refused to make public . |
| 11 | That will be overcome only if the industry has enough confidence to invest in plant to find new milk products to sell . |
| 12 | He lit the hurricane lamps set in brass wall-brackets and found a pressure lamp for the dining table . |
| 13 | In our implementation , aggregation was achieved at run-time through masking out components of the primary key and assembling , using the Protocols language , the series of text objects meeting the criteria implied by the user 's current request . |
| 14 | Many of the component technologies matured rapidly and could be transferred abroad without making undue demands on the technical capacity of the local workforce . |
| 15 | The second is the complexity and sophistication of modern weapons systems themselves : each containing a sufficient number of different component technologies to ensure that progress , by and large , remains incremental rather than revolutionary . |
| 16 | In previous studies on the morphogenesis of colonic adenomas in FAP cases using a complete serial sectioning technique , we found that adenomas begin to develop in the proliferative compartment of the lower crypts in the form of atypical epithelial clusters , ‘ buds of ademoa ’ . |
| 17 | Souvenir hunters revived the centuries-old tradition after a huge tanker washed up on the rocks below East Prawle , Devon . |
| 18 | Its reluctance is largely a result of the strict financial regime imposed by the government as part of its general campaign to improve efficiency in the public sector and under which all rail improvements have to demonstrate an 8% return on the capital before approval is granted . |
| 19 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 20 | The report compares UK pesticide policy with pesticide reduction policies adopted in Denmark , Sweden and the Netherlands . |
| 21 | However , bioceramics based on calcium phosphates show excellent reactions with bone and there is normally little or no fibrous layer at the bone ceramic interface . |
| 22 | A few minutes later , the Base Notes come through , and you 're left with the final , true fragrance created by the Master perfumer , Guy Robert , creator of scents for Dior and Hermès . |
| 23 | The middle notes last a little longer ( rose , neroli ) ; and the base notes have a profound influence on the blend . |
| 24 | As a result of a voluntary agreement between the tobacco industry and the government , a system of four tar groups has been established : |
| 25 | The motility indices obtained from the different recording sites were averaged to obtain only one basal and one postprandial motility index for each patient . |
| 26 | Measurements of colonic pressurss are confounded by pronounced intra and interindividual variation of colonic motility indices depending on factors that are obscure and thus difficult to control . |
| 27 | For the last twenty years , it has used the data provided by the Family Expenditure Surveys to estimate the net benefit which different income groups derive from public expenditure . |
| 28 | There is evidence from HMOs that higher income groups gain greater health benefits from the system than do lower income groups ( Ware , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Moreover , lower income groups tend to spend more propor-tionally on their housing than higher income groups ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 5 ) . |
| 30 | However , the fact that fewer people in low income groups use credit at all means that , of those who do , a higher proportion are likely to be heavy credit users . |