Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people , and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them , and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised , indeed being turned into an extension of England . |
| 2 | Elections in the United States take place every two years ( more frequently if one includes state and local elections ) and , as part of the checks and balances built into the process by the constitution , different institutions are elected for different tenures . |
| 3 | A surprising fact is that 65 per cent of the UK is supplied with hard water , a situation which means that a high proportion of hotels , restaurants and other institutions are faced with hard water problems which are costing them hard earned revenue . |
| 4 | As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims . |
| 5 | I know that , legally , a person must be qualified to call him/herself a nurse , but all nursing and health care assistant vacancies are classified as nursing posts . |
| 6 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 7 | Some two thirds to three quarters of all solved burglaries are committed by young men under the age of 21 . |
| 8 | It 's estimated that 80% of burglaries are committed by casual opportunists , and in three out of ten thefts the burglar does n't have to use force to gain entry — open windows and unlocked doors make life very easy for him . |
| 9 | Fire fighting problems of high-bay warehouses are characterised by large amounts of fuel , arranged in a cellular manner to facilitate deposit and retrieval . |
| 10 | Most bank notes are printed on special paper that makes forgery more or less impossible , although with the passage of time , new notes have to be issued to replace worn-out and frayed paper notes . |
| 11 | When notes are repeated in successive chords they lose their power and become weak . |
| 12 | First , notes are scribbled on large sheets of poor quality paper . |
| 13 | The Acts are arranged in chronological order under the heading , so the Children Act 1975 is found near the end of the group . |
| 14 | Is the agreement clear on the difference between a policy ( eg providing depreciation over the estimated useful life , providing for doubtful debts ) and the application of that policy ( eg plant has a lifetime of 8 years , doubtful debts are provided in full ) ? |
| 15 | The pollution inspectorate , which is expected to oversee the process , is currently understaffed and personnel are suffering from low morale . |
| 16 | The interactions are represented by integer-spin fields that do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle . |
| 17 | The role of the carboxy-terminal helix face in operator binding was unclear , but we demonstrate that recognition of operator sequences occurs through side chains in the β -strand motif and that dimer-dimer interactions are required for effective repression . |
| 18 | ‘ We wish to stress that our discussions are proceeding on amicable terms and there will be further visits to Darlington Civic Theatre . ’ |
| 19 | Many of the discussions are couched in educational jargon that effectively excludes many ‘ jobbing doctors ’ who do so much of the teaching . |
| 20 | The western edge of these Atlantic gems are fringed by wonderful , white , shell-sand beaches , backed by flower-bright , green machair plains ; the east coast is rugged and inhospitable , bounding a trackless land , confronting mainland Scotland over the stormy Minch , beyond Cuillin on Skye . |
| 21 | When a disk fails , objects are re-replicated on remaining disks and the system becomes fault-tolerant again with replacing the failed disk . |
| 22 | When a disk fails , objects are re-replicated on remaining disks and the system becomes fault-tolerant again with replacing the failed disk . |
| 23 | Manual returns are sent to head office , and data for consolidation entered into Microsoft Excel to produce management accounts . |
| 24 | efficient financial markets in the operational sense that expected returns are equated across domestic and international financial assets . |
| 25 | However , the strippings and restorations are recorded in dated pencilled notes on stocks or in butt-traps which helps recreate a gun 's personal history . |
| 26 | For the lay congregation , scriptural accounts are regarded as literal history , a self-contained story no less true for being divorced from an historical context . |
| 27 | The media accounts are replaced with racialised people , with photographs to lend emphasis to the text where the rapists are black . |
| 28 | Virtually all the data the 650 needs to compile the national accounts are collected by other departments . |
| 29 | ( e ) That , when a subcontractor will be on site for an extensive period , detailed interim accounts are prepared at monthly intervals . |
| 30 | The curds are lifted onto muslin-covered racks and cut through with a knife before they are left to drain . |