Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex Brown & Sons lowered its rating to neutral from strong buy and cut its fiscal 1993 earnings estimate to $1.80 from $2.80 a share . |
| 2 | The need for a radical change of outlook has also been stressed by Bowen ( 1979 ) who sees progress in this direction being made by a mixture of basic and applied work by both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary endeavour diminishing what Butzer ( 1975a ) saw as particularism — the tendency for individual specialists or groups to regard their own field as the cornerstone for others . |
| 3 | Coverdale training , where groups study their behaviour in the performance of a series of tasks . |
| 4 | Benson & Hedges began their new " Surrealist " campaign in spring 1977 with a trio of 48 sheet billboard posters all displayed simultaneously . |
| 5 | The Institute will be again offering an introductory course in Pastoral Caring , to help those with some experience of pastoral caring or counselling in their churches or fellowships to develop their gifts further . |
| 6 | It ‘ s mainly the press having to find a story or supporters letting their bias colour their judgement . |
| 7 | We do therefore need more new mums OR MUMS-TO-BE to strengthen our group again . |
| 8 | Where supporters call her brave and detractors selfish , it is perhaps nearer the truth to see the passionately political Katharine Hamnett as developing all the pragmatic hallmarks of the hard-nosed businesswoman . |
| 9 | Manufacturers often use distinctive emblems or images to make their products easily-identifiable . |
| 10 | Institutions could be granted charters or licences to confer their own awards but it would be in the interests of higher education if the C.N.A.A . |
| 11 | Where countries use their own devices to protect their domestic industries artificially from genuine overseas competition , they must expect us to do the same . |
| 12 | New yachts or windsurfers join our fleets every year . |
| 13 | Where areas have their own separate currencies , the forces revealed in the accounts have a vital bearing on the prospects for exchange rates ; where there are not separate currencies these same forces have a bearing on the prospects for the real economy , including unemployment . |
| 14 | Consider the following , and see how many words or phrases describe your feelings — as you remember them — at the time you left nursing . |
| 15 | Power clearly has something to do with ‘ getting one 's own way ’ and the behaviourist approach involves studying actual behaviour to see which groups or individuals get their own way in cases of decision-making where there is an observable conflict . |
| 16 | Some patients begin to recover their ability to balance and to use their limbs fully within two to three weeks , whereas others may take months or years to reach their full potential , especially if they have perceptual problems and severe spasticity . |
| 17 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 18 | A promotional drive in California was directed at specific industrial sectors — like electronics — where officials thought their best chance of success would lie . |
| 19 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 20 | A total of 210 men used firearms or explosives to end their lives , whereas no women used this method . |
| 21 | These would entitle the customers or suppliers to terminate their contracts with the company if some or all of the shares in the company are sold and may therefore deprive the purchaser of the company 's main assets . |
| 22 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The government also believes , ’ said the Minister , that ‘ where farmers restrict their activities beyond the degree which could be regarded as good agricultural practice , they should be compensated . ’ |
| 24 | Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country . |
| 25 | Mr Gallie wants to see a daily television slot where people who have committed violent attacks or murders have their faces unveiled . |
| 26 | Those who invite friends or partners to share their rooms for short or long periods , without first discussing it with co-tenants , are bound to create resentment , let alone increased pressure on shared facilities . |
| 27 | They go out together , babysit for one another , and sometimes get mistaken for friends or sisters taking their children out . |
| 28 | During the period of the slave trade and plantation labour in the West Indies , a certain number of black Caribbeans found their way to Britain , frequently as sailors or as slaves or servants accompanying their masters . |
| 29 | This is particularly so where tribunals have their own appellate tribunal . |
| 30 | His parents , who lives at Cowley near Gloucester , were the only relatives or friends to attend his inquest at Tewkesbury . |