Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More complex designs presumably require tinkering with Visual Basic scripts . |
| 2 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 3 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 4 | This is a good deal more difficult than it sounds , as small pieces of fluff and hairs always seem to appear from thin air by the million and float down on to the glass ! |
| 5 | Specialist image analysis equipment for light and electron microscope images also require interfacing with powerful computers . |
| 6 | Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men . |
| 7 | Most of the discussions above have centred upon specific factors particular to Britain . |
| 8 | In a paper published this month in Nature by Dr Shigekazu Nagata from the Osaka Bioscience Institute in Japan , it was found that a strain of mice long known to suffer from auto-immune disease lacks a working version of a gene called Fas . |
| 9 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 10 | in a nuclear age with the high cost of technology , countries now have to arm against immediate destruction , ensuring that military expenditure must be higher than ever before . |
| 11 | The contractors immediately offered to pay for new tyres to replace those caked in bitumen . |
| 12 | People hooked on horoscopes sometimes refuse to try for good jobs because the signs are against them . |
| 13 | Five of the 13 Labour authorities still refuse to participate in local consultative groups , although Brent is about to reverse its policy and in Ealing the matter is under discussion . |
| 14 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 15 | Generally speaking the businesses that obtained government-guaranteed loan funds have produced problems : They require greater monitoring and supervising than the banks normally like to devote to small businesses and , as the type of support is very often a last resource , they must be considered more risky than the norm . |
| 16 | Safeway have produced the pick of the crop with their Party Trays — a range of food platters individually prepared to order at in-store delicatessens . |
| 17 | The blame must lie with the fertiliser manufacturers , who undoubtedly have done their best to encourage increased consumption by heavy advertising to farmers , and who in many cases also own farms themselves and supply seed of varieties specially bred to respond to high levels of nitrogen . |
| 18 | Pupils with special needs also stand to benefit from other developments in mainstream education . |
| 19 | The two governments also agreed to co-operate in agricultural research . |
| 20 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 21 | Palestinians therefore had to compete with subsidized Israeli produce in the home market while being denied access to the Israeli one . |
| 22 | Alternative responses to the early stages of the National Curriculum build not from rigid hierarchies of tasks , but from pedagogical principles flexibly applied to respond to different individuals and groups , and based on an understanding of broad developmental principles and their diverse expression in individual children 's work.6 |
| 23 | The general principles just outlined apply to latent inhibition training as to conditioning . |
| 24 | But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news . |
| 25 | For instance , shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive , but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers . |
| 26 | The Financial Times ' headline ‘ US and UK groups battle it out for contracts ’ on February 11 is the title of a report which notes that ‘ British engineers say US project managers traditionally prefer to operate with other US companies . ’ |
| 27 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 28 | Gas export earnings however have grown with increasing exports to Japan and South Korea though oil remains the main export earner at some 60% of export revenues . |
| 29 | Beginners often continue to struggle with weak lift without realising that they are , in fact , losing height and drifting further away . |
| 30 | As a result lower level or petty bureaucrats frequently have to rely upon local people for economic perks ( access to a small plot of land , or to credit on favourable terms , or the rent of a house ) . |