Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown .
2 Perhaps you would like to see some improvements made to some shops , museums , galleries or sports centres ?
3 Some solicitors specialise in this type of work and can provide a full in-house service .
4 Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 .
5 Some authorities refer to this measure as a unit or a standard drink .
6 With so many players forced to defend , Everton found few opportunities to attack in any strength .
7 There are I suspect , few organizations represented around this table , public or private , that would wish a delay in decision .
8 He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical .
9 In Easton , there are only a few policewomen attached to each section .
10 Some authors writing in this vein have spoken of a fundamental change in international politics resulting from the rise of these ‘ new forces in world politics ’ .
11 This plates go in this way .
12 Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied .
13 A decade later we are only just beginning to find ways of alleviating some experiences related to such stress ( Pound and Mills , 1985 ) and seriously addressing the role of social support as a protection from depression ( Koziarski et al . ,
14 Now some blocks made of this material have begun to disintegrate .
15 But few engineers subscribe to this theory and at the end of the day it is the hardware engineer who has to ‘ get the thing working ’ .
16 If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s .
17 Some officials objected to this arrangement in principle , but the government felt that the cost of additional personnel was too great to warrant changing it .
18 He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust .
19 Sadly , some dogs pass through several homes in quite rapid succession , possibly because they have not been house-trained or may be highly-strung and bark continually .
20 They 'll spend the next few days sorting through that information .
21 The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment .
22 The Acts also provide for a quota scheme , which makes it compulsory for every employer of more than twenty people to take on a quota of at least 3 per cent registered disabled , although few firms adhere to this scheme and monitoring is poor .
23 Some problems faced by this approach are discussed later in the chapter .
24 Some provisions apply to all officers of companies ( whether directors , managers , auditors , or members of a supervisory board ) in regard to the duty of care , appointment , and cessation of their office .
25 Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season .
26 Future teachers need , we believed , understanding of language that is not included in the assumptions transmitted by the culture , and runs in some ways counter to those assumptions .
27 Some patients landed with this label will have viral cystitis , difficult to diagnose by the standard methods of analysing the urine , others will have one of the genital infections like trichomoniasis , candida , or herpes while some actually have a bacterial infection of the bladder or kidney that has been missed .
28 There are quite a few phormiums dotted around this part of the garden , their arching , spiky leaves becoming increasingly popular , but not all varieties are fully hardy so some are planted in pots to be moved into the greenhouse to overwinter .
29 Some themes recur in several papers and this is indicative of their urgency .
30 As there are at present few materials focusing on this aspect of discourse , the remainder of 8 suggests what such relevant activities might be .
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