Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 2 | On Nov. 16 Reuters news agency reported fierce fighting between the NPFL and the rival Sierra Leone-based United Liberation Movement ( ULIMO ) near the Bong iron-ore mines 85 km north-east of Monrovia . |
| 3 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 4 | In a statement from Tunis on Aug. 2 , the PLO issued a set of guarantees and conditions of its own , including implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 242 ( November 1967 ) and 338 ( October 1973 ) , recognition of the legitimate and national rights of the Palestinian people , Palestinian participation at the conference in accordance with the decision of the PLO , the rejection of the exclusion of Jerusalem as an issue during any one of the peace process stages , and an immediate halt to settlement activities . |
| 5 | The wilder ones were rampant about black magic , the gruesome style of the mutilations , of kinky sex videos starring Polanski and his wife found at the house , and of the deep drug involvements of three of the victims . |
| 6 | Our trips and good times programmes are of course entirely optional . |
| 7 | Folly 's practised eye assessed the hothouse blooms in their crackling cellophane wrapper . |
| 8 | The witness said that these types of items had been encountered previously in improvised explosive devices and could be used in letter or parcel bombs . |
| 9 | ETA parcel bombs |
| 10 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 11 | Parcel bombs sent in early 1990 to a retired Army officer in Valencia , to a prosecutor who had investigated the 1987 Barcelona supermarket bombing [ see p. 35851 ] , and to the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , were defused . |
| 12 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 13 | Colchester clothiers had indicated their intention of prosecuting weavers who did not return the " thrums " , the web ends left in the loom after the cloth had been removed . |
| 14 | Without bargaining skills , a president will be a nonentity in the White House , unable to control other political leaders and incapable of meeting his responsibilities as the principal public policy-maker . |
| 15 | Moralists are , by definition , inclined to deal in absolutes and to be uncomfortable with pragmatic accommodation , but political leadership in the United States requires bargaining skills and , ‘ calls for actions such as compromise , renunciation , face saving of oneself , which are morally ambiguous or even downright immoral to people with morally rigorous standards . |
| 16 | But the real job ( rather than the ideal version articulated by younger men ) is , as we shall see , much less about the application of science and technology to the measurement and control of pollution than the use of negotiating and bargaining skills to secure compliance . |
| 17 | The airframe is immaculate , with a wonderful paint job kept pristine with the help of a large bag of polishing cloths by the hangar wall . |
| 18 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 19 | Environmentalists , led by the Greenpeace organization and the World Wide Fund for Nature , had conducted an intense campaign in support of the world park proposals . |
| 20 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 21 | Peripheries in relatively advanced societies which have undergone the process of homogenisation described by Shils may be susceptible to investigation by pluralist methods , if only because the overwhelming predominance of a specific value-system ensures that peripheral conflict is usually limited to items which do not impinge on the central elite values . |
| 22 | Transitions from g to g and from u to u states are forbidden ; only transitions from u to g or from g to u states are allowed . |
| 23 | Transitions from g to g and from u to u states are forbidden ; only transitions from u to g or from g to u states are allowed . |
| 24 | Yes indeed erm the the general M O U states that er work share will be proportionate to the off date that each nation takes . |
| 25 | I can not envisage a system related to ability to pay that does not approximate to income flows . |
| 26 | In relation to EM pollution , recent research has indicated that EM patterns of energy emanating from high-voltage transmission from power lines and other man-made devices , can influence immune system stability if the activity is sustained and one is in constant proximity . |
| 27 | A sun hat will keep you cool but they 're difficult to pack , the Neal Street East shop , Neal Street , London WC2 have large brimmed , cotton , coolie hats that fold up into themselves ( around £3 ) |
| 28 | In coolie hats , |
| 29 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 30 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |