Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This of course raises the question of the apologies and/or accounts which accompany failed farewells . |
| 2 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 3 | ‘ But obviously we do n't sell anything like knives or firearms which have criminal overtones . ’ |
| 4 | Some salami are wrapped in garlic or herbs which give additional flavour . |
| 5 | Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year . |
| 6 | It can also help to raise your awareness of new research and any political influences or undercurrents which stand to affect the way services are managed . |
| 7 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |
| 8 | It is quite without the trees or hedges which enclose all the country around it . |
| 9 | For every bright-eyed wagon train or trail blazing adventure , there are a dozen Westerns dealing with lawmen or outlaws who have outlived their times and now find themselves constrained by the pettiness of a civilisation which is rarely grateful for the way they have cleared the ground for its progress . |
| 10 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 11 | Clearly , the expectation is that young people will be steered away from companies or employers who have not undertaken to provide good quality training . |
| 12 | During the initial development of root definitions these factors should be considered in systems terms only , otherwise the analyst may just relate them to the subject organisation , overlooking other individuals or groups who contribute to the system as defined . |
| 13 | There are often people in the community or groups who like coming |
| 14 | This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them . |
| 15 | Such rewards are offered as prizes in a competition to those individuals or groups who perform best against a specific set of objectives . |
| 16 | Are they recent arrivals from Norway , or birds which have been around since the autumn migration ? |
| 17 | Housing authorities throughout Britain are required to develop housing plans or strategies which encompass the private sector , and many central government concerns such as the amount of Green Belt land to be made available to developers can be elucidated by the use of local market models . |
| 18 | In short , ignorance of the decisions which others are in fact about to make may cause decision-makers to make unfortunate plans — either plans that are doomed to disappointment or plans which fail to exploit existing market opportunities . |
| 19 | It falls most heavily on people with very modest savings or houses who have not taken appropriate advice . |
| 20 | Elite theorists argue that there are gross inequalities of political influence between interest groups ; that many mass-based groups promoting issues or views which threaten established elites are excluded from influence ; and that there are many groups not organized at all , or only episodically able to make their voices heard . |
| 21 | What seems more likely is that Basquiat could be the beneficiary of a process operating in the market ( and among some critics ) , where artists who appear able to retain their market value in the next decade are promoted and shown , whereas others considered beyond rehabilitation are ignored . |
| 22 | Central to my analysis of goals is the proposition that the backgrounds of individuals provide us with themes or patterns which reappear in values , beliefs and goals , and then overtly in behaviour . |
| 23 | Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | Worse ( < ) night ; pains in joints or inflammations which indurate . |
| 25 | When people begin to owe their significance to objects , or objects themselves begin to upstage people , not only the house , but the world of which it forms a part , has altered . |
| 26 | As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity . |
| 27 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 28 | Some of my patients are helped by paints or tablets which cause vasodilation . |
| 29 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 30 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |