Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [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 | Russians adopted the orthodox spirituality of the Greeks and it is interesting that , even after decades of Soviet oppression , they do not have the same problems about the reality they call ‘ God ’ as we do in the West , where Christians always behaved as though God could be discussed like any other metaphysical entity . |
| 3 | It is also held that freedom of expression is applicable not only to information or ideas favourably received but also to those that ‘ offend , shock or disturb either the State or any sector of the population ’ . |
| 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 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 11 | ‘ Lukewarm toleration ’ is the description given by some New Zealand correspondents who believe that clergy sometimes feel that ‘ traditions are inhibiting parish development ’ . |
| 12 | That homes already furbished or in the process of being refurbished or identified for refurbishment shall not be closed and will re-open as county council E P H s . |
| 13 | A critical difference in this study was that subjects simply sat and watched the slides while physiological measures were recorded , a similar procedure to one used recently by Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Parenting skills often need to be taught so that parents accurately recognize and understand their child 's behaviour and reactions ( Lieberman and Birch 1985 ) . |
| 16 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 17 | It means only that ideas both given and new will be subjected to scrutiny and not simply accepted on trust . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | He must have suspected that his all British commission was hardly the kind of body that Kenyans either needed or were likely to listen to in 1972 . |
| 20 | For the majority of pupils , it is probably the case that girls now do as well as boys . |
| 21 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |
| 22 | ‘ As a teacher I have observed that children truly learn when they try to solve questions which they themselves ask . |
| 23 | The name Yahweh appears in the Bible from the earliest times ( Genesis 4:1 ) and in such ways as to imply that men both knew and used it ( e.g. Genesis 4:26 ; 14:22 ) . |
| 24 | In other words , you must accept the idea that historians often disagree and may have convincing reasons to support their individual viewpoints . |
| 25 | The fact that so many new titles are appearing suggests that publishers now reckon that video is getting established in language institutes . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Do you do you think that women actually mind whether chaps are bald or not ? |
| 28 | I leaned that my soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots or beetroot and that parsnips always forked because , although the soil was deep and good , the amount of stones could be only marginally reduced at each forking over . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |