Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 2 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 4 | Some of the more advanced authorities have already developed a career structure for care managers — a model which could prove a pointer for the rest of the country . |
| 5 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 6 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 7 | [ For May 1991 decision on a NATO rapid reaction force see p. 38216 ; for October NATO meeting and further reactions to Franco-German proposals see p. 38554 . ] |
| 8 | Under the communists , feudal fiefdoms flourished . |
| 9 | Three main questions were therefore addressed : did non-fundholders reduce their rate of referral outside the boundaries of their local district health authority ? did first wave fundholders reduce their referral rates to NHS outpatient clinics and , if so , which specialties and which patients were affected ? did the proportion of patients referred by fundholders to private clinics increase and how many private referrals were paid for out of the NHS budget ? |
| 10 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 11 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 12 | What associated skills do we |
| 13 | Normal values encourage some patients to opt for less drastic treatments . |
| 14 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 15 | Since then extra-marital conceptions have increased sharply while all conceptions , and all births , have fallen . |
| 16 | Sunken continents remained popular until better soundings of the ocean floor in the 1870s revealed the sheer extent of the elevation that would be needed to create dry land across the Atlantic and other major oceans . |
| 17 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 18 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 19 | Henry II renewed his own homage to Louis and then watched his two elder sons do homage : Henry for Normandy , Anjou and Maine , Richard for Aquitaine . |
| 20 | But in their hurry to get off the mountain , exhausted climbers have discarded tons of rubbish . |
| 21 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 22 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 23 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 24 | Until 1980 local economic strategies took their place among the many uncontested , bipartisan policies of local government , although with the recession and the ‘ de-industrialization ’ of Britain this was an expanding activity for an increasing number of local authorities . |
| 25 | And , secondly , local economic strategies have shown that the economy can not be abstracted from other sets of relationships within society . |
| 26 | With these nine titles , Usborne Publishing has successfully demystified the World of Electronics ( another title ) by providing accurate but colourful technical illustrations combined with equally zany cartoon characters which bring to life the usual metaphorical explanations of how computers and other machinery from the age of IT works . |
| 27 | Addition of successively higher odd harmonics steepens the wings and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuations in between . |
| 28 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 29 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 30 | In spite of scepticism and outright hostility to her at the court ( how could she achieve what professional commanders had failed to do ? ) |