Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although shy by nature , Datnoides are remarkably intelligent , soon coming to recognise their owner and apparently enjoying attention , feeding happily from the hand . |
| 2 | ‘ The outlaws are not like that ? ’ |
| 3 | Replicas are very useful for reconstruction activities . |
| 4 | Taking a cutting from the tree on Hallowe'en or May Day when the fairies are about is also extremely foolhardy . |
| 5 | The institutions are also not entitled to receive information about the pupil 's racial group , religion , home language or court reports . |
| 6 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 7 | Advertisements sent to relevant European institutions are also exempt . |
| 8 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 9 | ‘ The most conspicuously ‘ democratic ’ institutions are largely symbolic and expressive in character' ( Edelman , 1964 , p. 19 ) , but the real sites of decision-making are not conspicuously democratic . |
| 10 | For on the argument here , higher education is essentially a developmental process experienced by students ; staff and institutions are largely incidental . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite political division , the churches unite in their membership of the Middle East Council of Churches , and continue to play a leading role in a part of the world whose institutions are most important . |
| 13 | The non-university institutions are however , formally sub-divided , by location and partly by type . |
| 14 | These institutions are simply coping with low pass rates in the matriculation exam , an immediate manifestation of a broader problem of apartheid education which they can do nothing to solve . |
| 15 | The structure of the privatisation is such that institutions are effectively being left with no say in how they spend the funds they are supposed to manage on behalf of their clients . |
| 16 | In contrast , most big American and European institutions are already at or above the BIS target . |
| 17 | Banks , insurance companies and other financial institutions are already offering comparable services . |
| 18 | Banks and other financial institutions are already heavy users of electronic funds transfer , and it is likely to be widely adopted by businesses handling large number of cash transactions , as in the retail trade , for example . |
| 19 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 20 | Do n't be afraid to cash in policies — banks and financial institutions are n't always as safe as houses . |
| 21 | However , not all teachers can gain access to these courses as the institutions are geographically very unevenly distributed . |
| 22 | The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care . |
| 23 | ‘ Too many of its institutions are not accountable enough to the people , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 24 | As you are aware , these two institutions are not charity organisations ; their programmes are conditional on real progress being made on reform . |
| 25 | And just as laws and institutions are not the only means of controlling governments , so too they are not the only means available to governments for achieving their policy goals . |
| 26 | Societies do change , and their social institutions are not immune to innovation , reform or rebellion . |
| 27 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 28 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |
| 29 | The survey also found that 74 per cent of the heads of institutions are not confident of the Government 's ability to develop and implement a coherent and successful higher education policy . |
| 30 | Evidence in this area has led to the conclusion that institutions are not capable of providing adequate parenting for the very young child and to the statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1983 ) to the Standing Committee on Children in Care in Britain that no child under the age of three years should ever be placed in a residential nursery . |