Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) . |
| 2 | The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision . |
| 3 | The institutions are becoming superfluous . |
| 4 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 5 | Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house . |
| 6 | Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class . |
| 7 | Also of interest is computer use during consultations , where patient notes are made available and up-dated using a desk-top terminal . |
| 8 | SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings . |
| 9 | Also , no explanation is offered as to how society defines criminal behaviour , why some acts are made illegal and others not . |
| 10 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 11 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 12 | Course modules in Land Use/Environmental Interactions and Nutrient Cycles : Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions are considered essential . |
| 13 | In the kind of discriminating attention it demands , grid method becomes , and reveals , a part of that articulation process described by Lind in which the very structure and texture of aesthetic objects are made intelligible . |
| 14 | All prisoners are made aware of these rights . |
| 15 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 16 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 18 | While some states are enacting certain parts of the convention verbatim , others are interpreting it and adapting it to suit particular national interests and policies . |
| 19 | Scottish training providers are already aware of this and those in other member states are showing increasing interest . |
| 20 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 21 | The implications of all this are that new military technologies are making conventional defence increasingly cost-effective compared with offence ( although this argument does not apply to nuclear defence , such as the Strategic Defense Initiative ) . |
| 22 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Corp Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 23 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 24 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it seems to me that more than a few Frenchwomen are carrying powerful foglamps , and are doing a good job of raging against the dying light . |
| 26 | Yeah their stat statisticians are going mad . |
| 27 | Individuals who possess certain skills may also find their power diminished if those skills are made redundant by developments in new technology . |
| 28 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 29 | International : Exodus as Slavs pack their bags in ‘ little Switzerland ’ Their pride wounded and fears growing , Russians are leaving Muslim Central Asia . |
| 30 | It is important , while acknowledging that many policies are made complex and ambiguous by the conflicts within the policy-making process , to recognize that it is intrinsically difficult to specify some policy goals in terms that will render the implementation process quite clear and unambiguous . |