Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This is n't such a monumental task but for the arrival of another 150,000 visitors who have exactly the same plans ! |
2 | In the case of parents who have either no children or normal children , there is little scope at present for identifying the likelihood of having a mentally handicapped child . |
3 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
4 | But this chorus of praise has been cancelled out by opponents who question both the fiscal and museological sense of the transaction . |
5 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
6 | What an economy needs is shareholders who have both a long-term interest in the companies they own and the desire and ability to apply some discipline to managers . |
7 | If you want the best Basmati rice , look for Tilda Basmati , Brown Basmati and Easy Cook Basmati : Tilda selects its Basmati from its own highly trained buyers who purchase only the finest quality of Basmati from the season 's crop . |
8 | Johnston was important as a systematic thinker who put together a package of ideas on the links between Marxist and republican politics . |
9 | The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal . |
10 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
11 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
12 | This large and increasing number of old , and very old , people will contain a high proportion of individuals who have either no family setting and connections , or at any rate none that is of practical relevance to their way of life . |
13 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
14 | Thus he defines professional jobs as those of producers who define both the needs of the consumer and how those needs should be met . |
15 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
16 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
17 | Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’ |
18 | It can sometimes mislead people who perceive clearly the fallacies the metaphor invites and therefore reject it altogether , turning a blind eye to the true insight it encapsulates . |
19 | ‘ Most people who make even the slightest contact with a wire carrying 25,000 volts die . |
20 | ‘ Just that you 've apparently cornered the market in finding weak and easy targets , people who have neither the strength nor the wherewithal to fight you . ’ |
21 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
22 | I think one of the things which the French have learnt to do is , indeed , to integrate specialists , whether they 're scientists , whether they 're economists , erm and their generalists , that 's to say the people who have basically a legal , economic , administrative background , to integrate them within the administrative hierarchy in a much better way than we have , erm and this is erm something which does I think make it easier sometimes to provide advice that really is erm clued up about the technical aspects of something . |
23 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
24 | There are instrumental teachers who think only a distinction is worth considering and therefore may delay entering candidates , causing them to restrict their repertoire unduly . |
25 | There are songs about fleeting eye contacts , snatched and forever treasured , about drunken kisses and casual betrayals , about girls who walk home a different way each night to avoid the air-head wolf-whistles . |
26 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
27 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
28 | It 's about two men who go away every weekend doing different things . |
29 | A survey done by Barclaycard revealed that of the 20 million British tourists who go abroad every year for their holidays : |
30 | Women on our courses who have both a boy and girl are now finding daughters rebelling and asking why they have to do everything when their brother does little or nothing . |