Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canals of the area had been allowed to deteriorate over many years and for many months of each year could not carry full loads . |
| 2 | The onus must now be on the industry to provide more secure machines and on users to make sure that their own security procedures ( including the simple step of locking office doors ) is unimpeachable . |
| 3 | I just find it interesting to try out different ways and in the process , I often produce some attractive patterns ! |
| 4 | Throughout the 1980s , changes were introduced in the benefits system , on the one hand keeping out ineligible claimants and on the other improving the system for putting jobless people in touch with vacancies . |
| 5 | Differences involved mainly internal equipment and of 352 Mk 5s built fourteen went to the RNNAS . |
| 6 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 7 | Miliutin realized that landowners would not take kindly to his plan of campaign , but he felt that the government could win their support by setting up gentry committees to work out local details and by sanctioning a debate on peasant affairs in the press . |
| 8 | Profits from perestroika : launching here this month and in the USA next year is MNP ( pronounced ‘ meer ’ ) , a fizzy , clear version of a ‘ traditional Russian recipe ’ that contains less sugar and additives than most gassies . |
| 9 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
| 10 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 11 | The new EC Framework Programme for 1990–94 was adopted earlier this year and since then negotiations about the individual programme lines have been taking place . |
| 12 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 13 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 14 | Another study found that poorly differentiated solid carcinomas showed only weak staining and in our small sample a poorly differentiated tumour would significantly decrease the apparent sensitivity . |
| 15 | A strip mahogany ceiling lines the forecabin and there is plenty of stowage both beneath the berth , in the bins that run along each topside and in the locker across the foot of the berth . |
| 16 | On the right the post-war Greyseed council houses stand over abandoned quarries and on the left the school playing fields opposite the Royal Oak are on the site of the mediaeval Purbeck ‘ marble ’ pits . |
| 17 | May showed early artistic promise and between 1880 and 1883 attended the South Kensington School of Design , then one of the foremost art schools in the country . |
| 18 | Then there are the moves to buy up empty properties and for temporary increases in local authority investment . |
| 19 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 20 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 21 | Both natural language indexing , and , to a lesser extent , free language indexing are used extensively in producing both printed indexes and in gaining access to computerized databases and data banks . |
| 22 | Also , the proportion of households containing one person living alone increased between 1981 and 1991 from 22% to 26% , and the proportion of households containing only one adult and at least one child increased from 2% to 4% . |
| 23 | The journey of about 23 centimetres from the cervix , up the uterus and along the Fallopian tubes takes approximately 45 minutes and between 1,000 and 2,000 sperms reach the outer portion of the Fallopian tube … |
| 24 | Of course , what constitutes murder , rape , robbery , assault , and other forms of serious crime varies over historical periods and between cultural groups , as the changes and contradictions within and between powerful interest groups , and the shifting alliances of the less powerful bring about slight and not-so-slight tilts of society 's power axis ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
| 26 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 27 | Speaking to 300 people at a national Labour Party rally at the Dolphin Centre , she vowed that a Labour government would set up 6,000 nursery and after school places in its first two years . |
| 28 | I walked up this way and down that . |
| 29 | Ralph Brand sent a looping header towards goal , and though the Scotland Under-21 goalkeeper caught it above his head , he stepped back one pace and over the line . |
| 30 | Advanced level History does demand very detailed knowledge and for this purpose the linear note is very appropriate . |