Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to give a meaningful figure of the total personnel employed in social services , as definitions vary too much , but the social services are now an important sector of employment , and many of the personnel involved require training . |
| 2 | ( This created an ‘ evaluation industry ’ which sometimes consumed one-fifth to one-third of the total costs associated with particular programmes . ) |
| 3 | The gonococcus is a fastidious organism and demands not only the normal foodstuffs found in bacterial growth media ( normally blood products , meat extract , or ‘ chocolate ’ , which is boiled blood ) but it relies on the correct temperature , humidity , and carbon dioxide content in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 4 | British higher education remained another source of national pride and complacency , with the high international standing of British universities and polytechnics generally assumed , even though the differential fees imposed on overseas students in Britain , first by the Callaghan government , and later by the Conservatives after 1979 , somewhat eroded this appeal . |
| 5 | The emergence of ecology as a science had no clear-cut links to the environmental movement that was advocating a reduction in the destructive activities required by modern civilization . |
| 6 | After all , they were the women who bought and devoured a novel which revealed the unsatisfied desires seething beneath American small-town togetherness — Peyton Place , which earned Grace Metalious $56,000 a year in royalties . |
| 7 | The narrow streets swarmed with young people . |
| 8 | Jones has suggested that the sunken buildings found on early Anglo-Saxon settlements were dwelling houses , especially in eastern English settlements such as the large Thameside settlement of Mucking , and West Stow . |
| 9 | However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school . |
| 10 | The hypothetical numbers attached to short-run curves indicate that the point on a short-run Phillips curve that is on a long-run Phillips curve is where expected and actual inflation rate coincide . |
| 11 | Claudia admits the tiered beds suffer from dry shade , but there is no noticeable lack of plants . |
| 12 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 13 | Lindsey watched , fascinated , as the strong hands moved with surprising gentleness . |
| 14 | This resulted in a substantial ozone change , with the column ozone reduced over a small area in mid-April to under 200DU , approaching the low values observed in recent years over Antarctica . |
| 15 | This need not be the case for water boiling under the low pressures experienced at high altitudes . |
| 16 | We estimated that the consequences of motherhood lowered the pay of employed mothers relative to their childless contemporaries through factors such as lost employment experience , downward occupational mobility and the low rates paid for part-time work . |
| 17 | Situated in The Old Library , a magnificent Victorian building right in the heart of the city , the shop offers a spectacular display of some of the finest crafts made by Welsh artists . |
| 18 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 19 | In Zimbabwe and Zambia ( formerly the British colonies of Southern and Northern Rhodesia ) , the history of the press is closely bound up with that of South Africa , both colonies being linked to the South by economic ties , by transport and communications , and by the political pressures exerted by vocal white settler communities . |
| 20 | Now that the EC is cracking down on the ozone-depleting solvents used in dry-cleaning processes , you could face problems . |
| 21 | I was intrigued by the notion of combining the simplicity of the classic curves derived from conic sections with the complexity of wood . |
| 22 | The ASEAN leaders called for increased economic co-operation and sought an increase in foreign investment in ASEAN countries . |
| 23 | The tips of the spiny ribs pass through special pores as they impale the predator and they carry with them the secretions of nearby glands — glands that cause intensely painful poisoning of the inside of the attacker 's mouth . |
| 24 | Four correct replies were given by 70 ( 19% ) of the 372 patients instructed by general practitioners and 25 ( 50% ) of the 50 instructed in community family planning clinics . |
| 25 | While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work , the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres . |
| 26 | Some pupils of secondary school age who have special educational needs may continue to display some literacy skills within the lower levels associated with key stages 1 and 2 , so the teaching they receive in English will need to cater for this whilst incorporating material with a range and degree of interest , and in some cases intellectual demand , more appropriate to their chronological age . |
| 27 | The intact pellets collected from varying distances from the nest , however , could only have been left by the adults . |
| 28 | This is because the greatest melody-writers belong to past epochs and set an example which modern composers can hardly match . |
| 29 | The final and longest chapter describes the potential applications of LB films and stresses those areas in which the author feels the greatest opportunities exist for industrial and commercial exploitation . |
| 30 | As such , overlapping seems to be particularly effective at the engineering stages where companies want to avoid the technical problems associated with sharp reductions in individual stage length . |