Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with the Minister from the Scottish Office , the Minister rightly says that the institutions are best equipped to know the needs of their students . |
| 2 | These institutions are simply coping with low pass rates in the matriculation exam , an immediate manifestation of a broader problem of apartheid education which they can do nothing to solve . |
| 3 | Banks , insurance companies and other financial institutions are already offering comparable services . |
| 4 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 5 | The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care . |
| 6 | For this purpose , nine institutions are currently recognized and approved by the DES : Birmingham , Brighton , Bristol , Leeds , Leicester , Liverpool , Middlesex and Manchester Polytechnics and the former Cardiff College of Art , now merged into the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |
| 7 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 8 | About 600 institutions are now included in the ‘ UK Banking Sector ’ . |
| 9 | All institutions are now known as ‘ authorized institutions ’ , and the use of the word ‘ bank ’ was restricted to those institutions which had a paid-up capital of at least f5m , but in all other respects the 1981 classification remained . |
| 10 | Yet it is arguable that it is the central question about any political system whether the decision making process , the institutions and the political culture which obtains , confer a sufficient degree of authority on the decisions themselves and upon those in power that those same institutions are still respected even if , in individual cases , the decisions themselves are not ; for lack of authority within a system and the respect this conveys can have catastrophic results . |
| 11 | Some children brought up in institutions are so damaged by these experiences that they can not live in a family where they have to respond to others ' feelings and may escape into work in an institutional setting . |
| 12 | In this context , it should be noted that the rapid demolition of the colleges of education which followed was made possible by a unique regulator placed in the hands of the Secretary of State ; unlike the universities which are protected by a degree of autonomy and the polytechnics which are subject to a variety of controls and influences , overall teacher-training numbers and their distribution between individual institutions are directly controlled by the DES . |
| 13 | Competition on interest rates has squeezed Tessa profit margins to around 0.4% gross , against the 1.3% to 1.4% usual on other banking products , according to S&P executive director Ian Lindsey , who points out that a number of institutions are consistently paying rates above the level of money market rates . |
| 14 | What is absolutely essential is that the integrity of each of the religions are properly preserved when they are taught . |
| 15 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 16 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 17 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 18 | At the same time , the critic will learn from this figure that , since the secrets are never disclosed , and since the absent essence only operates when it is absent , he should not force his text to produce a single interpretative meaning . |
| 19 | And above all , watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places . |
| 20 | This does n't always work and older beginners are soon put off by this attitude . |
| 21 | Beginners are therefore instructed in the blocking capabilities of the art first , though in effect , of course , defensive movements also have an attacking function . |
| 22 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 23 | Many modern reproduction period ornaments are well made and often based on high-quality originals . |
| 24 | Vacancies are generally advertised in The Times . |
| 25 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 26 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 27 | ‘ Did you know that in New York a significant number of burglaries are now perpetrated by women ? ’ |
| 28 | Extensive descriptions of the mines are quaintly supplied : |
| 29 | The red iron mines are therefore to close . |
| 30 | Mines are then laid to prevent the embankments from attack . |