Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Cobol house MicroFocus , Newbury , Berkshire , is teaming with US firm Creative Systems Interfaces Inc to develop a range of communications software : initially MicroFocus will market , under its own name , CSI 's programme-to-programme connectivity packages which run over multiple hardware and software platforms including Windows , AS/400 , MS-DOS ( client ) , OS/2 , AIX and MVS . |
| 2 | Sensiq 's new Silk Stylers are waterproof crayon eyeshadows which glide on easily without dragging the skin . |
| 3 | During the first few winter holidays I went out on our pony with the Teme Valley , the local pack of hounds that hunted the rough hill country on the Welsh border . |
| 4 | Associative feminist psychologies address the different signification systems which make up psychology 's material and psychology itself . |
| 5 | In a similar , but more localised manner , some education authorities which carry out ‘ blanket ’ testing , or testing a sizeable sample of the junior school population , have introduced items which must be carried out using a calculator . |
| 6 | They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us , even though they are not particularly light reading . |
| 7 | Table 3.2 gives the proportions of graduates in each of 30 subject categories who went on to ‘ further academic study ’ after their first degree . |
| 8 | In South-west England a number of strand lines are developed corresponding to different sea levels which fluctuated up to 130 m above present sea level ( Camm and Hosking , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The primary , but not exclusive , focus is on Scottish IT firms which make up a localised sample that could be comprehensively surveyed . |
| 10 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 11 | In one of the few remaining parking spaces she pulled up . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |
| 13 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 14 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 15 | He argues that most individual subject areas themselves turn out on closer examination to contain a diversity of research styles and epistemological characteristics . |
| 16 | The squire and the rector , and the traditions which they represented , had no power or influence in the squalid housing estates which grew up round each new factory and mill . |
| 17 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 18 | Apart from moisture vapour , the air also contains millions of tiny plant spores which float around looking for somewhere to live and multiply . |
| 19 | Lévy-Bruhl links rain-making with Christian practice ; writing of the aboriginal intichiuma ceremonies he points out that ‘ Nothing is more widespread than practices having as their object the cessation of drought , and the assurance of rain : ( we see this even yet in our own Rogations ) … |
| 20 | Consequently , the National Certificate Modules which make up a general SVQ may not relate directly to functions performed in employment , although they are relevant to the needs of employment . |
| 21 | The highest contribution to January 's inflow came from Index-linked Savings Certificates which brought in £74 million . |
| 22 | Like the majority of d-i-y models , it has an 82mm planing width , and a maximum cutting depth of 0.5mm. larger capacity machines which take off as much as 3mm per pass are more expensive , and are only really worth the money if you are a professional . |
| 23 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 24 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 25 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 26 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 27 | What was a night out without a sing-song ? ln broad Somerset accents they bellowed out the words , waving their flagons in unison . |
| 28 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 29 | Then Allan appeared at Gateshead in those black cycling shorts which reached down to just above his knee . |
| 30 | The official ecology alliance suffered from a proliferation of dissident ecologist candidates who picked up 3 to 4 per cent of the vote . |