Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An assessment of the initial destinations of IT Advanced Course students completing their courses in 1984 was the subject of Part A. |
| 2 | In each case Hilts exercises his considerable journalistic skill to fill in different parts of the picture of a personality in a flowing , attractive , if rather thin , prose style . |
| 3 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 4 | Typically 1300-1400 bargaining groups report their settlement each year . |
| 5 | It is important that fieldwork should be properly supervised and that is why all professional research agencies get their field supervisors to make check calls on people who have been included in a sample and why fieldworkers should always have someone to turn to if they have any doubts or are in any difficulties . |
| 6 | Strong wind conditions affect your short game as well . |
| 7 | The theft was not discovered until the following morning when the red faces of Belgium 's finest fighting men matched their burgundy berets . |
| 8 | The report by Germany 's five leading economic research institutes said their more optimistic autumn predictions had been confounded because of east Germany 's failure to turn the corner . |
| 9 | But I shall offer another line of argument against conventionalism , because exposing each flaw in that conception helps point our way to a more successful one . |
| 10 | Two professional baseball players find their lives drawn together in unusual circumstances . |
| 11 | Alpine fold mountains make its northern and western land frontiers . |
| 12 | Returners often express difficulties in knowing where to begin , on which books to buy and which to borrow. , Some course tutors supply their own introductory reading lists , and most specify ‘ musts ’ such as the UKCC Code of Professional Conduct ; but others will arrange an early library session so that you are free to browse and survey what is available locally . |
| 13 | In this technique atoms have their velocities reduced by running head-on into a laser beam tuned to their transition frequency . |
| 14 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |
| 15 | To be fair , some British Rail employees do their best to inform . |
| 16 | While liquid systems are in general more reliable powder systems have their advocates . |
| 17 | The Arts : Where the limelight never fades At Brinsworth House , old variety stars spend their retirement swapping stories and writing their memoirs . |
| 18 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 19 | First British car manufacturers cut their prices . |
| 20 | The majority of British undergraduate students have their fees paid in full by a grant-giving body , and many also receive a cash grant . |
| 21 | The object of designing a national common core was in part to raise overall standards and in part to prevent the wastage of resources involved in each of the 22 NACAB areas designing its own basic training course . |
| 22 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is taking advantage of India 's relaxation of its foreign investment rules to up its stake in PSI Data Systems Pvt Ltd to 51% from 40% . |
| 23 | Having said this , I consider that the Commission is right when it argues that to require all owners and operators of British fishing vessels to have their residence in the United Kingdom goes beyond what is permitted under article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 24 | In 1793 two companies of horse artillery were formed , the first British artillery units to have their own drivers ; and this reform was later extended to the whole of this branch of the army . |
| 25 | He was an activist , with bluff red cheeks under his stunted pig eyes to prove his love of the outdoor life . |
| 26 | It is suggested that one of the reasons for this may be a cyclical process , whereby some research supervisors set their students problems in areas where they themselves undertook their own Ph D research . |
| 27 | As cisapride and histamine H 2 receptor antagonists exert their effects by affecting different mechanisms , they may have an additive effect and produced higher healing rates than either medication alone . |
| 28 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 29 | The tight-knit mining communities had their own traditions and tales , and in Ayrshire one miner 's name was a legend . |
| 30 | Meaning , my husband 's weekly lunch bills exceed your monthly income . |