Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 2 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 3 | As a result , there has been a demographic and social differentiation of rural areas that reflects their economic and social functions . |
| 4 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 5 | A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 6 | Is this couple 's problem simply different expectations regarding the frequency of sexual relations or does it go deeper ? |
| 7 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 8 | In this way coin evidence helps us to distinguish between the nature of different sites and allows us to speculate about their changing roles . |
| 9 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 10 | She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body . |
| 11 | A Validation Panel considers the acceptability of a proposed Course or Unit from both of these viewpoints and makes its recommendations to SCOTVEC . |
| 12 | But again it 's , it 's another one of these things that makes it really complicated . |
| 13 | This effectively freezes the results of all calculations and enables you to save a ‘ snapshot ’ copy of the data . |
| 14 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 15 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 16 | It is the introduction of multiple assignments that allows us to reduce the assignments in every program to this form . |
| 17 | A statement which takes a list of numeric arguments and sends their least-significant bytes as characters to the display . |
| 18 | ‘ Suppose it 's one of those things that follows you round — like Tutankhamun 's mummy . ’ |
| 19 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 20 | It 's not the sex mag blues nor the poverty in the caravan nor the midnight tending of newborn lambs that saps us . |
| 21 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 22 | And the reason there 's only ever one , is that dominant male will not tolerate the presence of other males and drives them out . |
| 23 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 24 | This lasts for three terms and gives you one three hour evening class every week . |
| 25 | From the second point of view , the central issue would not be ‘ What is it about black children that causes them to fail ? ’ but ‘ What is wrong with an educational system that produces failure and does not recognize the cultural distinctiveness of black people , whether West Indian or Asian ? ’ |
| 26 | the not getting better with normal things that gives it away . |
| 27 | This simple and inexpensive technique allows us to take the pressure off enlarged extended families with limited fields and enables them to grow more without fertilizers or more land . |
| 28 | If you want the earth to move for you , it 's best that it starts with small tremors and works its way slowly up the Richter . |
| 29 | Each is adorned with silken cloths and has its tusks shod with iron for the greater efficacy of killing criminals . |
| 30 | Underplanting is another association with other plants that has its problems . |