Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name .
2 The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management .
3 He was always waiting , very receptive to new ideas and so he did like people and organizations to present their views and he did like to hear discussion .
4 to be designed around the established needs of the Course and its working practices , academic structure and regulations , in order to assist all staff and students to fulfil their roles ( on occasion , analysis for proposed developments showed up imperfections in existing procedures and sharpened user perceptions of their roles and working practices ) ;
5 Similarly I look at English and ask whether staff and students locate their discipline within the Leavisite paradigm or whether they are aware of the developments of the past thirty years , such as structuralism and post-structuralism .
6 The BA intends to write to MPs and peers to express its concern , and will ask members to lobby their local MPs and warn customers of the VAT threat .
7 In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was .
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