Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system may exploit water at temperatures of between 60 degrees centigrade and 12 degrees centigrade and is widely used today in France , USSR , Hungary , Iceland and many other locations . |
| 2 | Most sub-Sahara African ethnic groups followed or are still observing the custom of a long , traditional post-partum abstinence of one or more years ( often until the suckling child is weaned , or can walk , talk , etc . ) . |
| 3 | Since car ownership diminishes with age and since many older women can not drive , a clear form of discrimination emerges in the sense that such people suffer restricted opportunities to travel and are less able to enjoy the benefit of greater choice and lower prices . |
| 4 | Why are such patients described as being inappropriately placed ? |
| 5 | The male rate croons a post-coital song consisting of bursts of sound between one and three seconds long that are only just above human hearing . |
| 6 | and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved . |
| 7 | Perhaps because of its futuristic design or perhaps through slow fund-raising , the bridge took many years to complete and was not opened until 1823 which must , to say the least , have been highly inconvenient . |
| 8 | This utility has too many features to list and is definitely worth getting . |
| 9 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |
| 10 | Frequently , however , the imposition of standards reflects a judgement that important externalities exist or is simply a pure value judgement based on distributional considerations . |
| 11 | It was this ignorance which had led one of the officers of the LEA to criticize one of the earliest reports submitted as being mainly descriptive and not sufficiently ‘ evaluative ’ ( Clift , Chapter 2 in this volume ) . |
| 12 | Standard MRI techniques require repeated sampling of the nuclear magnetic resonance signal in a series of experiments which may take several minutes to complete and are therefore only suitable for the study of static organs . |
| 13 | Linen is one of the oldest fibres known and is even stronger than cotton , but it creases badly unless treated with the appropriate finish . |
| 14 | The airframe , apparently in excellent shape , is complete with 1–16 engines installed and is currently displayed in the Pioneer Village Museum located in Nebraska . |
| 15 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 16 | If you see new words written and are not sure of the pronunciation because you have not heard the word or phrase used , check the pronunciation with friends — they do not have to be experts at phonetics to tell you what the word rhymes with — then bring it into your own conversation with confidence . |
| 17 | Instead of orderly motility patterns , which can be analysed relatively easily , irregular contractions occur that are apparently tandomly distributed in location and time . |
| 18 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 19 | All four men escaped but were later arrested . |
| 20 | Local authorities listened and were generally responsive . |
| 21 | There was then a complex discussion of reflexes which both Millers enjoyed but was n't all that easy to follow for the uninitiated . |
| 22 | Children are given a list of intellectual challenges to master and are also given an obstacle/assault type course to complete . |