Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 2 | Other approaches , designed to make people aware of their behaviour in groups , use questionnaires and rating scales to enable participants to record their feelings , perceptions and ideas about the group and its behaviour . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) STRATEGIES TO ENABLE CHILDREN TO EXPRESS THEIR IDEAS |
| 4 | THE attractions of personal pensions has been enhanced by a change in the rules allowing individuals to manage their own investments within a personal pension plan . |
| 5 | The deaf community might well attach the label ‘ failure ’ to much of hearing society 's attempts to provide services to meet their needs . |
| 6 | S.9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( AJA ) authorised the Council to make rules enabling solicitors to incorporate their practices . |
| 7 | WHILE watching the Olympic boxing , I realised what a sensible idea it is for the amateur fighters to wear headguards to protect them from brain injuries . |
| 8 | Exhortations to channel operators to co-ordinate their programme schedules and content were often ignored ; for the two main channels , brand advertising was the chief source of revenue — the choice of attractive programming at 8.30 p.m. ( a film , telefilm or series ; sports ; light entertainment , games , shows ) all-important . |
| 9 | It will show that , while older people organized themselves into pressure groups and old age itself became an increasingly attractive political issue , ultimately the organizations representing pensioners found themselves powerless to combat the notion that enforced retirement should become the normal experience for older people . |
| 10 | A kind of halfway house for urban secondary students is the proliferation of Saturday and evening schools to help students pass their matriculation exam . |
| 11 | They can , as part of their normal teaching commitment , have time tabled sessions to help teachers develop their own skills in coping with special educational needs , or help them evaluate the effectiveness of new curriculum materials or teaching strategies for meeting special educational needs . |
| 12 | Many canteens in the Wedgwood Group are taking steps to help employees change their diets for the better . |
| 13 | While each could be self-sufficient for food , neither could manage well without the products of the other : stockmen needed cereals to balance their diet , not to mention barley and malt for brewing ; corn growers needed butter , cheese and meat to alleviate the monotony of bread . |
| 14 | Experiential learning methods ask nurses to experience something for themselves . |
| 15 | Despite the mechanics ' worries motoring organisations say they are confident lead-free means trouble free . |
| 16 | Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully . |
| 17 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 18 | In a letter of 25 January 1620 Sir John Chamberlain remarks a very significant event in the contemporary cross-dressing controversy : James I 's instruction to the clergy to suppress women doing it . |
| 19 | Pupils use the dictionaries to revise words , for example , in Level 1 flaps over the words help pupils test themselves and each other . |
| 20 | Exposure to a large collection of information books enables children to discover their own interests ; in many cases ‘ passions ’ would be a more accurate description . |
| 21 | Analysts said that corporate borrowing was a major factor in the rise as companies sought funds to pay their tax bills . |
| 22 | Of course , for the wealthiest strata there is always the option of sending their children to elite private schools , while other urban parents make sacrifices to send their children to the fee-paying schools which have sprung up since 1977 especially to meet the unfulfilled demand for secondary education . |
| 23 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 24 | British Telecom is also currently running trials to enable users to access its packet-switched Global network services through the ISDN . |
| 25 | Above all , operating in different time zones allows animals to exploit their environment to the full . |
| 26 | Council housing is becoming more and more marginalised as the better off tenants move out and higher rents encourage others to exercise their right to buy . |
| 27 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 28 | Such parents allow children to regulate their own activities as much as possible ; avoid the exercise of control and do not encourage their children to obey externally defined standards . |
| 29 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 30 | But as and where appropriate , local companies tailor screens to suit their own requirements . ’ |