Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 2 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 3 | We thus formally define equivalence of normal forms as follows . |
| 4 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 5 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 6 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 7 | These motives , by dint of repeated presentation to the mind , counterbalance the powerful impressions of the private passions that oppose the common good ( Beccaria , 1963 , p. 12 ) . |
| 8 | Some are fitted with halogen bulbs for overall punch , or spots to light specific objects or to highlight . |
| 9 | Indeed the " United Front " was further restricted by an NAC decision on 16 February " to limit co-operation with the Communist Party to specific objects as agreed upon by the representatives of the two parties from time to time " . |
| 10 | They pointed out that nearly all the studies have focused upon young men and that far less was known about the sub-cultural activities and work careers of young women . |
| 11 | If a job starts in normal hours and runs into overtime , that time should be charged at the quarter hour rate . |
| 12 | The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 13 | Nordic Water , an offshoot of the building and real estate group , NCC , makes water-treatment products and does design and contracting work for water companies , industry and local authorities . |
| 14 | • Liaison between , and close collaboration with , Mashreq country national programs in carrying out all aspects of the Program ; • Assist national program coordinators in developing working plans and monitoring performance ; prepare a variety of documents and reports ; |
| 15 | As it is inevitably the biggest , toughest Orcs that become more important it goes without saying that it is the big Orcs who get bigger ! |
| 16 | I saw a pool-table , a polythene-wrapped three-piece suite , various devotional ornaments and gewgaws with their special pale glow . |
| 17 | But starting the Reformation was only half the battle : turning its principles into practicable policies and maintaining momentum in the face of opposition from determined vested interests was much more difficult . |
| 18 | Labels such as ‘ mono-hierarchical ’ , ‘ mono-organizational ’ , ‘ USSR Incorporated ’ ( Meyer 1965 ) , the ‘ organizational society ’ , the ‘ command society ’ ( Rigby 1964 ) and the ‘ administered society ’ ( Kassof 1964 ) are used , implying that the political conflicts and struggles over resources , status and power that take place within the communist state are analogous to those experienced within large corporations . |
| 19 | Since 1986 the proportion will have fallen even further , as some Conservative local authorities have sold their old people 's homes to either private operators or housing associations . |
| 20 | Will the investment in new wagons be justified by private operators or leasing companies given the uncertainty of the market ? |
| 21 | Brand of the Year was awarded for our long term policy of providing modern stores and innovative products while retaining traditional values . |
| 22 | The money supply ( MS ) is also exogenous — it is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and does not respond to changes in r or Y. |
| 23 | Professionalism We have seen how public sector organisations are made up of professional groups and have briefly discussed their importance for organisations . |
| 24 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 25 | We are not today a society which can draw upon such political intellects as guided America in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton . |
| 26 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 27 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 28 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 29 | So Tommy the waiter carefully hung up his yellow waistcoat with its white lining and ordered some wine from room service and in a while after a long easing shower slept for eight solid hours and did n't dream about Filmer . |
| 30 | Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life . |