Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings .
4 no , but some sort of place , well when , when you look at these pictures now , the satellites been going twelve months , still going through
5 ST HELENS are taking legal advice after the Rugby League turned down their compensation plea for injured Test centre Paul Loughlin .
6 The main objects are to remove all construction materials from the beach area and to disperse boulders where these formed the access road along the beach .
7 All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full .
8 Prisoners are given some choice as to which prison they go to ; what work they do ; what training or education courses they undertake .
9 Nowadays 100 million cups of Ovaltine are drunk each year .
10 What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 Scottish training providers are already aware of this and those in other member states are showing increasing interest .
14 Students at Somerville are demanding free rape alarms and self defence classes … following the rape .
15 Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’
16 Those in the last category are given least priority , though that does not mean they are never funded . ’
17 To compensate , the latter category are allowed longer slices of time when they are selected to use the processor .
18 ULSTER drivers already reeling from the jump in the cost of motoring imposed by the Budget are facing another rise in car park charges .
19 An article in the weekly Die Zeit urging a more liberal citizenship law said only about 1,000 of the 1.8 million Turks in Germany are naturalised each year under complicated rules .
20 The move , expected to form part of the imminent white paper on the coal industry , would come at a time when the US , Japan and Germany are pumping greater resources into clean coal research .
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 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 .
24 Some farmers have even improved their workers ' conditions as a result : at least Westerners are giving Third World workers one small thing of value .
25 The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills .
26 St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top .
27 SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight .
28 Terms which are not expressly agreed between the parties but inserted by law into the contract are called implied terms .
29 Trading Standards in Yeovil have just submitted a report on Mrs Burt to the Office of Fair Trading and their counterparts in Swindon are warning potential customers to be wary .
30 In logic we would say to ourselves because the Germans are getting more seats , because East Germany is being added to the union , why on earth should Britain get more as well and it seems very difficult to explain why we should have extra seats at all .
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