Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( You should consider which way the demand and/or supply curves of money shift. ) ( a ) Banks find that they have a higher liquidity ratio than they need . |
| 2 | If £1 billion of Treasury bills are sold to the discount houses , the discount houses will borrow money at call from the banks , or sell bills to the banks , to pay for these Treasury bills . |
| 3 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 4 | Sometimes these informal meetings led parents to form a task force to help meet a particular school need — covering library books , repairing and repainting of toys , making simple equipment or assisting teachers with classroom chores . |
| 5 | Uniform provision of services as opposed to discrimination or targeting services towards groups with high needs become the norm . |
| 6 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 7 | No other pathogenic mutation ( insertions or missense mutations at codons 102 , 117 , 178 , 198 , and 217 ) was present . |
| 8 | Responses , ranked in order of frequency ( with more than one response per subject possible ) , were : ( 1 ) avoid people who ‘ have it ’ or are ‘ infected ’ ( 36% ) ; ( 2 ) avoid ‘ risky ’ environments ( subway , crowds , jail ) ( 18% ) ; ( 3 ) avoid people who are coughing ( 13% ) ; ( 4 ) do not share cigarettes or crack pipes with anyone ( 13% ) ; and ( 5 ) do not share drinks or food with anyone ( 13% ) . |
| 9 | This sort of structure could be adapted to the situation where the departing shareholders of Target are willing to accept deferred consideration ( the debentures ) , the managers become or remain shareholders in Target and a venture capital partnership wishes to invest directly in Target . |
| 10 | The presence of coconut estates also forced cultivators to look after their cattle more closely because plantation managers were inclined to shoot cattle or bring charges of trespass against the owners of animals found on their land . |
| 11 | 1 Disjoint sets which have no common elements , 2 overlapping or intersecting sets with common elements , 3 one set completely inside the other . |
| 12 | In response , ICI Paints aims to reduce or eliminate VOCs from its products wherever possible . |
| 13 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 14 | Social divisions in the workplace , symbolised by the provision of separate canteens for different grades of employee , are seen by some employers as counterproductive ; they have sought to reduce or eliminate differences of treatment of introducing practices which harmonise the status and conditions of their employees . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 16 | Blake and Mouton emphasised from the outset that managers switch from one style to another , or combine elements of several in running their operations . |
| 17 | But for one category of revolutionary decree — that which urged or recommended changes in attitude and practice without creating penal sanctions — the government had to rely on individuals who had vision and who could persuade others by example and argument . |
| 18 | Escaping capture , he led the 1,500-strong " Prestes Column " on a two-year 25,000-km march through Brazil 's interior , fighting off or eluding attacks by government forces and the private armies of landlords , while seeking in vain to enlist peasant support . |
| 19 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 20 | As Hawkes ( above ) pointed out , it can be a touch or a whisper : ‘ Communication ’ can take the form of a hint of a smile or a shrug of the shoulders , or it can be an angry tirade or whispered words of affection ; these are means of communication between individuals , interpersonal communication . |
| 21 | The union called on teachers in certain schools to take action by refusing to supervise in lunch periods , or to attend meetings outside school hours . |
| 22 | A huge stock enables the firm to fit or deliver carpets within 48 hours . |
| 23 | The Commissioner has no power to conduct formal investigations , to obtain information , or to issue codes of practice , unlike the EOC and CRE . |
| 24 | Robert-Jean de Vogüé and Maurice Doyard , both members of the Commission de Châlons , convinced the German authorities that the Commission was powerless and unable to influence the trade on any matters raised , or to issue orders on the Führer 's behalf or from other agencies of the occupation forces . |
| 25 | So , a representative of the authority is entitled to be present at the taking of the evidence ; for example , the authority may wish to ensure that there is no infringement of his State 's sovereignty or security , or to uphold privileges of the witness . |
| 26 | This may include written work , answering questions or completing worksheets on a source , and whole class or group discussion . |
| 27 | Deciding for oneself what to do causes anxiety , exhaustion , or involves costs in time or resources the avoidance of which by following authority does not have significant drawbacks , and is therefore justified . |
| 28 | Let the bizarre and miraculous elements which the New Testament documents narrate about his activity be relegated to those far-off apostolic days : it would be very embarrassing and doctrinally untidy if the Holy Spirit were to speak to men today , or to enable miracles to be performed and men to speak in tongues not their own . |
| 29 | Russia can not afford to be flanked by newly nuclear states on its southern borders ; or to allow the ethnic strife in and between ex-Soviet republics to turn nuclear ; or to see extremists among its own fissiparous peoples demand independence on pain of nuclear terrorism . |
| 30 | Do we have a need to eat meat or to conduct experiments upon animals ? |