Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 2 | The furniture should be arranged to allow free passage , and it is probably wise not to have breakable ornaments or glass-fronted cabinets in the areas where the patient will be . |
| 3 | Around half of those approaching social services , and 60% of those calling at a CAB , already had debts or direct deductions from their benefits . |
| 4 | There were no injuries to personnel or structural damage to the Ula installation . |
| 5 | It is as if the writer were drawing , in words , one of those pictorial maps where each point of approach is represented by a picture , each landscape captured on the page in one carefully selected view described in a concrete , unfussy , immediate way . |
| 6 | That approach to construction was approved by the House of Lords in In re Smith ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Braintree District Council [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 215 , in which Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle said , at p. 238 , that , in view of the changes in policy shown by the new Act , he felt justified in construing the provision of the Act of 1986 ‘ as a piece of new legislation without regard to 19th century authorities or similar provisions of repealed Bankruptcy Acts . ’ |
| 7 | The primary objection to UDCs has been that they are not directly accountable to local authorities or local people in their areas . |
| 8 | Forced acts of oral sex and penetration by objects or other parts of the body are collectively subsumed under the heading of indecent assault , a crime which covers a multitude of activities , some of which are less than grave . |
| 9 | However , generalisations about the sexuality of women is of no more relevance in a criminal trial than generalisations about sadistic tendencies or pornographic fantasies in men . |
| 10 | Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 . |
| 11 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 12 | Subsection ( 7 ) gives the court power to require the contravener to furnish accounts or other information for the purposes of applications made under subsection ( 3 ) . |
| 13 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 14 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 15 | She was in limbo and would be for the rest of her life , if you could call it a life , dragging out its weary length with no more great joys or fearful griefs for her , for her blood was running too thin to bear them . |
| 16 | Finally , there are ‘ form and routing templates ’ which present structured documents , such as order forms or help-desk requests to users and then control the way in which they are routed . |
| 17 | Whatever length of time is given , though , it will be difficult for an employer to justify dismissing you on the grounds of lack of skills or basic ability within that time unless something exceptional happens . |
| 18 | We always anticipated that centres would take the opportunity offered by ACDP to develop new courses — either courses in completely new areas , courses which combined related disciplines or new approaches to traditional courses . |
| 19 | Birmingham is one of the few cities where any attempt at sensible provision has been made . |
| 20 | One sometimes hears it said that this or that innovation is not a matter of extra resources but of new attitudes or different ways of working . |
| 21 | There are a few people who develop sores or cracked skin at the corner of the mouth and suffer from riboflavin or vitamin B2 deficiency . |
| 22 | If there is force in the claim that information exchange is best achieved through negotiation , then a programme in which pairs or small groups of children work together on tasks will be valuable . |
| 23 | A few hundred Masai are gathered , the later arrivals dotting the savannah to the south , advancing in pairs or small knots of red and purple . |
| 24 | In many religions , men make idols and images to represent their deities ; in a similar way these mystic images are mental icons or sacred images of the other world . |
| 25 | The Government retains a golden ( or " master " ) share in the newly-floated company which confers rights restricting other shareholders or potential shareholders from acquiring controlling stakes in the company for a period of years or indefinitely . |
| 26 | This share confers rights restricting other shareholders or potential shareholders from acquiring controlling stakes in the company for a period of years or indefinitely . |
| 27 | Dogs which show obvious laziness , unusually slow reactions or extreme one-sidedness in their character should be watched and examined with particular care before they are used for breeding ( the possibility of deafness should be considered ) . |
| 28 | A system may permit strong interactions or weak interactions between knowledge sources . |
| 29 | The words themselves , being less ’ everyday ’ , are less likely to have widely accepted definitions or stereotypical patterns of usage that may then be quoted as examples in their dictionary definition . |
| 30 | He could have been a bank manager from the High Street of Twickenham , he could have sold insurance policies or slashed-price holidays to Benidorm . |