Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 2 | It is suited to large multi-divisional firms producing a wide range of products and/or operating across several countries . |
| 3 | The 1971 characteristics of elderly people who by 1981 had moved into institutions or to live with younger relatives will be compared with the characteristics of those remaining in their own homes . |
| 4 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 5 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 6 | It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times . |
| 7 | Perhaps there is some activity you have often thought you would try ‘ sometime ’ : Is now the opportunity to begin dog-training , Jogging , meditation , writing to The Times or writing for the radio ? |
| 8 | Right , word full stop word Erm right , press return a few times then choose centering button and table , insert table , and now we 're going to have a table whe where I thought we could have a number and it can either be times or divide by something and then the answer , so we want how many columns ? |
| 9 | TRIMMED WITH RIBBONS OR CROWNED WITH ROSES : ROBERT BURGESS TAKES HIS HAT OFF TO A BEVY OF WIDE-BRIMMED BEAUTIES |
| 10 | Local authorities must be notified of private fostering arrangements and of children accommodated by health or education authorities or living in residential care or nursing homes on a long-stay basis ( see Chapter 18 ) . |
| 11 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 12 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 13 | It is an offence under Section 47(2) to do any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market price or value of any investments if the purpose is to create that impression and thereby induce another person to acquire , dispose of , subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights conferred by those investments . |
| 14 | Such costs will either be absorbed on a pro rata basis into the cost of existing projects or charged to the overhead accounts . |
| 15 | The information can then be used for future projects or integrated with other data at a later stage . |
| 16 | One of the most interesting and sometimes infuriating facets of running a reef aquarium is the apparently spontaneous appearance of various organisms which enter the tank either as larval forms or hidden in living rock or the bases of sessile invertebrates . |
| 17 | However , Trazior also formed part of a mega-complex of hives densely crowding a poisoned terrain , interlinked by transport tubes supported on pylons or suspended from cables . |
| 18 | Captain and Mrs Burrows were well under way when the car broke down , leaving them stranded on the mountain side , with no garages or help for miles around . |
| 19 | For the teacher who favours the process model , a development like study skills or reading for leisure would hardly be seen as extra to the curriculum , and for some , even the enhancement of the physical environment can not be divorced from those learning experiences in which education consists : that is to say , " the medium is the message " ( McLuhan cited in Postman and Weingarter , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | Transfer from special school to integrated provision as a pupil gains mastery of specialised skills or transfer from integrated provision to special provision for specific reasons should be neither surprising nor impossible . |
| 21 | Adult is only pure white medium-sized seabird of region , having no darker streaks or smudges on head in winter : breast faintly suffused pink . |
| 22 | They may , for example ( to paraphrase the original submission ) either broaden their areas of study in order to learn the principles and methods of several disciplines or concentrate on a more extensive study of a single discipline . |
| 23 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 24 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 25 | Others survive by begging , selling trinkets or scavenging on rubbish tips . |
| 26 | At his last exhibition at Sonne eighteen months ago , the artist used such inventions , laid out on stretchers , bound with iron chains or impaled on spikes , to show life-threatening wounds of which the injured themselves were unaware . |
| 27 | In Ipswich the development officer built up a register of possible workers through personal contacts or contact with local clubs , associations and the job centre . |
| 28 | It should be emphasised , however , that a recurrent and persistent pattern of many of these items is a much more accurate diagnostic indicator of addictive ; ease than noticing the smell of alcohol , looking for episodes of unkennels or examining for constriction of the pupils or other signs drug use . |
| 29 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 30 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |