Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear , though , that if you decide to help your elderly parent or parents to apply for local authority grants , you are probably going to need to have great determination and infinite patience , and in the meantime there is a great deal you could do yourself to improve their comfort and living conditions in small but important ways . |
| 2 | IT WAS difficult for small independents to offer services like their Holiday Care system , which offered immediate help to holidaymakers , whatever the problem , like lost baggage or loans to cope with legal problems over cars in Spain , for which customers were given access to a phone numnber until 15 days after coming home . |
| 3 | This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984–5 coal dispute . |
| 4 | Apart from its wrongness in principle , it is ineffective , since the wrongdoing continues without being subject to public censure , which is the way that society typically brings pressure on individuals and groups to conform to civilised norms . |
| 5 | There was some room for individuals and groups to experiment with limited co-operation across factional lines if they could temporarily forget their religious and sometimes political differences . |
| 6 | Certainly , it takes time for workers and employers to react to changing conditions in the labour market . |
| 7 | This will reportedly allow FAX clients and servers to run on different architectures and versions of Unix and still work together . |
| 8 | Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles . |
| 9 | Bureaucratic control binds individuals through incentives and disincentives to behave in predictable ways . |
| 10 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 11 | Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process . |
| 12 | Now because of this initial asymmetry between the sexes and the size of the sex cells , the tendency is for females to concentrate on parental investment and males to concentrate on mating success . |
| 13 | But positive attitudes can turn into negative ones on arrival in an unfamiliar land especially if it is customary for expatriates not to mix socially with local people but for locals and expatriates to live in separate communities . |
| 14 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 15 | Too often , where land ownership was fragmented , development was slow to occur : statutory bodies were reluctant to sell unwanted land , and small , private owners did not often have the expertise and resources to benefit from financial incentives . |
| 16 | Teacher training also tried to provide a methodology and techniques to deal with rural multi-grade schools , which require different skills from those in single grade teaching . |
| 17 | Potentially attractive is pin ( programme item number ) , enabling receivers and recorders to respond to particular programme items preselected by a user . |
| 18 | Whilst it is productive to ask boys and girls to work in small groups together , it is often very embarrassing for them to be asked to choose a partner of the opposite gender . |
| 19 | Families in these situations need particular understanding and support , for it is not easy for wider family and friends to act as effective substitutes for the role of the missing parent . |
| 20 | This change would open up a new potential for managers and doctors to invest in shared programmes . |
| 21 | There would be every justification to grant-aid this type of work , leaving developers and speculators to concentrate on additional building when they see that they can utilise the facilities throughout the year . |
| 22 | This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year . |
| 23 | The mobile and metamorphosing earthly environment was responsible for the nature of early life on Earth , allowing different mixes of chemicals and minerals to blend under changing conditions . |
| 24 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
| 25 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 26 | Occupational segregation by sex — the tendency for men and women to work in distinct occupations , often in single-sex situations — has persisted with little change throughout this century . |
| 27 | In October 1990 the Commission proposed a five-year plan to reduce overall EC energy consumption by 12 per cent , forcing vehicle owners and industries to comply with tight exhaust emission standards while spending up to ECU35,000,000 on improving production standards for domestic buildings and electrical appliances . |
| 28 | The first complaint was made on 23 March 1972 and the NIRC ordered the union , its officers , servants and agents to refrain from certain specific blacking . |