Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year .
2 This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them .
3 Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator .
4 The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule .
5 The speaking voices or personae who function as the subjects of the fictional enunciations can not be straightforwardly identified with real-life authors but are essentially poetic constructs , resulting from the interpretative engagement of the reader with the language of the text ( Herman 1989 ) .
6 The Act actually says that we 're concerned with children who have learning difficulties , which calls for special education provision , and to be more specific they refer to children who have greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of that age , or disabilities which prevent or hinder them making use of the educational facilities generally provided .
7 ‘ Then there are those who work in manufacturing , in police forces or hospitals who suffer because they are constantly functioning below par . ’
8 Different communities , then , may bring different interpretations to the words or signifiers they hear or read .
9 Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered .
10 An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture .
11 In Xenopus oocytes that lack RYRs , there are numerous initiation foci ( hot spots ) and the waves migrate outwards as expanding spheres or spirals which annihilate as they crash into each other .
12 It would be naive to believe that employers who discourage or attempt to undermine Trade Unions do so out of any altruistic motive , such as concern for the individual employee .
13 Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically .
14 The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth .
15 It is an example of a theme which will crop up throughout this book — that modes which originated as ways of describing and analysing international capitalism , and relations of domination within it , are being brought back home to be used in the understanding of developments within the former metropolitan power .
16 The supporters of ‘ our revolution ’ believed , like the Prussian patriots of 1806 , that men who fought as soldiers must be rewarded as citizens , that ‘ independence would be accompanied by a reform of abuses ’ .
17 When it comes to data storage , the second and third of these categories predominate , indeed take over from the first ( to the extent that it becomes important to the data creators that records which challenge or compromise them are destroyed ) .
18 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market .
19 Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region .
20 He showed slides and graphs which revealed that children living very near high-voltage overhead lines showed more instances of leukaemia and other cancers .
21 Theory and practice are integrated throughout the course , with students undertaking a wide variety of practical exercises and projects which reinforce and build upon lecture material .
22 There was the usual battery of clicks and coughs which signalled that the internal communications system of the Cathedral was girding its loins for action .
23 ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools .
24 He will bring with him over 20 dogs from the London tracks , supplied by friends and contacts he made while head lad to Hackney trainer David Vowles .
25 To my mind , evidence of conflict already exists : the deafening silence from Moorgate Place on Caparo is an example where self-interest has been allowed to be paramount : the decision suits the practising firms ( as their legal liability is narrowly defined ) , notwithstanding that in the public interest , would-be investors , existing individual shareholders and creditors who lose because they have relied on audited accounts which subsequently turn out to be defective , should , on any basis of equity , have recourse to those parties who are responsible , whether management or auditors .
26 Rossi pointed out that the Commission 's denial of a link between forest decline and pollution was ‘ quite contrary ’ to evidence from others and ‘ the Swedes , Norwegians and Germans who fear that there is a very , very direct connection ’ .
27 Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day .
28 The problem is that the additional functionality provided by Unix vendors — the bells and whistles which differentiate and position their products in the market — all require further APIs , rendering different Unix implementations incompatible in certain areas .
29 In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles .
30 This book should assist this process and help practitioners focus on what personal qualities and skills they bring and not just those areas in which help and information may be required .
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