Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not give an example of how revenue expenditure is allocated down to Regions , Districts and Units , and the ‘ before and after ’ cases of their allocations showing the impact of capital charges , and how they will change when Districts or Units actually increase or decrease their employment of fixed assets . |
| 2 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 3 | At this point it is useful to extract from the account a number of basic questions which teacher or student essentially ask and for which it is the task of a resources organization to provide answers . |
| 4 | If you are going to use computer generated artwork in your publications , be they business graphs , drawings or logos then ensure that they are created with a drawing package not a painting one . |
| 5 | The report was highly critical of the backbench committees and noted that meetings frequently overlap or are cancelled and rearranged and that attendance was low . |
| 6 | The requirement in the Adoption Agency Regulations to counsel the parents specifically about all the alternatives to adoption , and to make sure that their views about these different alternatives are placed before the court , together with the fact that guardians ad litem and reporting officers will also be scrutinising this element of the work , should lead to more careful practice at this stage . |
| 7 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 8 | The trends tend to be that schools either gain or lose pupils with little interchange . |
| 9 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 10 | ‘ Lukewarm toleration ’ is the description given by some New Zealand correspondents who believe that clergy sometimes feel that ‘ traditions are inhibiting parish development ’ . |
| 11 | Together they illustrate that , even if it is true that Conservatism harbours ‘ a distrust of the purely intellectual approach in politics ’ , this in itself is an ideological position with important implications in terms of both the theory and practice of Conservatism , and Honderich concludes that ‘ the commodious proposition that Conservatives only have and only favour factual beliefs which have passed the test of time , are empirical and so on , and hence are untheoretical in various senses … needs to be delivered , if necessary by private contractors , to the rubbish heap of history ’ . |
| 12 | Parenting skills often need to be taught so that parents accurately recognize and understand their child 's behaviour and reactions ( Lieberman and Birch 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Did you care to touch upon the fact that fish rarely flourish once they are removed from water ? ’ |
| 14 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 15 | Only by hitching our wagon firmly to the pioneers of the new Europe can we achieve economic growth to provide the quality of public services that people rightly demand and the prospect of higher personal wealth , choice and freedom . |
| 16 | There is considerable evidence that people only remember or absorb up to seven points in any communication situation . |
| 17 | For the majority of pupils , it is probably the case that girls now do as well as boys . |
| 18 | ‘ As a teacher I have observed that children truly learn when they try to solve questions which they themselves ask . |
| 19 | In other words , you must accept the idea that historians often disagree and may have convincing reasons to support their individual viewpoints . |
| 20 | The fact that so many new titles are appearing suggests that publishers now reckon that video is getting established in language institutes . |
| 21 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 22 | Do you do you think that women actually mind whether chaps are bald or not ? |
| 23 | Although ministers now stress that they recognise the importance of backing basic research without strings , the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs . ’ |
| 24 | Although ministers now stress that they recognize the importance of backing basic research without strings , the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs . |
| 25 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 26 | A brief discussion of some major categories , with examples , is intended to illustrate the kinds of difficulty that translators often encounter because of differences in the grammatical structures of source and target languages . |
| 27 | Objectives , for example in the area of educational policy , are often multi-purpose and disagreements constantly arise as to what these objectives are or should be . |
| 28 | ‘ Me and Sarah just feel that life is twice as sweet . |
| 29 | In this author philosophy and fiction continuously interact and are , at most , only formally distinct . |
| 30 | Brown and Gilmartin also report that " Other anthropological techniques were completely ignored . |