Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Howard Norman , of Stanway Traffic Division said they intended to target specific areas badly hit by the crime . |
| 2 | The latest crime figures show that burglaries , theft and handling stolen goods now account for more than 90 per cent of the total . |
| 3 | The opposition Sacred Union called on the armed forces to abandon Mobutu and asked foreign governments not to co-operate with Diaka ; it also called for France and Belgium to return their troops to the country . |
| 4 | THE recent successful launch of an American company , Shaman Pharmaceutical , on the New York and London Stock Exchanges highlights the renewed interest in finding cures for modern diseases by using centuries-old remedies often based on the natural properties of rare plants . |
| 5 | Cordyline terminalis ‘ Tricolor ’ , a cabbage palm , has lance-shaped leaves impressively streaked with creamy white , pink and red . |
| 6 | Thousands of people pressing similar demands also demonstrated in Leningrad , Yaroslavl , Gorky , Saratov , Voronezh , Stavropol , Volgograd , Ufa , Sverdlovsk , Omsk , Barnaul and Novosibirsk ( many of these cities had recently witnessed protests resulting in the removal from office of unpopular local Communist Party leaders — see p. 37235 ) . |
| 7 | For a year-round foliage plant a variegated Persian ivy ; Hedera colchica ‘ Dentata Variegata ’ has large leaves generously splashed with yellow and grey . |
| 8 | The Special Commission ‘ encouraged the Central Authorities to serve extrajudicial documents not emanating from an authority or from a judicial officer if these documents were of a type which normally would call for the intervention of an authority in their countries ’ , a striking example of the generous approach taken in operating this Convention . |
| 9 | Fight your way through a mass of dungeons meeting unusual creatures beautifully rendered in smashing tecture-mapped 3D . |
| 10 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 12 | According to the proposed US schedule the Johnston incinerator — the only such facility currently in existence — would undergo 16 months of testing before beginning to destroy chemical weapons already stored on the atoll ( those which had been removed from Okinawa in 1971 ) , and would then incinerate those weapons currently based in West Germany . |
| 13 | If such schemes can successfully be developed they may provide future services better suited to the needs of the elderly at lower costs than the continued use of social and health services on current levels . |
| 14 | Sometimes you will find people selling ordinary plants just stuck in pots and sold as bonsai . ’ |
| 15 | Mellow orange pantiles seemingly cascade at many angles , surmounting buildings of varying heights , covering lower and higher ground . |
| 16 | The plant collection includes flowering plants now cultivated in gardens in many tropical areas of the world . |
| 17 | Visit the Channel Islands and you will see Britten-Norman Trislanders happily buzzing between the islands and the two adjacent mainlands of England and France . |
| 18 | In order to identify new genes preferentially expressed in cytotrophoblasts of first trimester placenta , which display phenotypical characteristics similar to tumor cells , we have made a subtracted cDNA library . |
| 19 | They remain useful house-cows well suited to harsher environments , though their beef potential is surprisingly good and is perhaps worthy of greater exploitation . |
| 20 | I acted as unofficial welfare officer for others and spent untold hours merely listening as the unworldly struggled to achieve the alternative vision of a new heaven on earth . |
| 21 | It had been noticed in the inner city that many vowel variables could be described in terms of sub-scales according to following consonantal environments ( as in table 4.5 ) ; we attempted , therefore , to operationalize this perception by distinguishing following environments roughly based on the sonority scales discussed by Taylor ( 1973 ) and others adapted to an ‘ allophonic length ’ dialect ( J. Milroy , 1976a ) . |
| 22 | This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment . |
| 23 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 24 | The abundant subepithelial and intrafollicular CD68 + macrophages seen in Peyer 's patches were all HLA-DR positive ( Fig 2B ) , as were the S-100 protein + interdigitating dendritic cells sometimes found beneath the follicle associated epithelium ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 25 | The original windows of the ‘ east ’ gable and the side walls having become low-level lights closely related to the new upper floor , the fine stained glass they contain can now also be admired at close range . |
| 26 | Practitioners of the art broke away to form new styles more attuned to their own ways of thinking , and karate began to fragment . |
| 27 | My guide was a lady who has built clinics and social centres there , and taught African women how to look after their health . |
| 28 | The most enduring and widespread artefacts from the earliest times are made of flint , a hard rock which fractures to give sharp edges ideally suited for making knives , axeheads and arrowheads . |
| 29 | AIDS may well have taught gay men how to work with , as well as benefit from , the services of lesbians . |
| 30 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |