Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government does that , at night , with trucks ; or uniformed men come sadly at morning with their trolleys , dispensing our rubbish , and shit for the dogs . |
| 2 | We need safe , disciplined schools , where professional teachers work closely with parents . |
| 3 | Loch 's somewhat high-handed attitude towards many public or philanthropic efforts contributed much to the lack of harmony within the philanthropic movement . |
| 4 | On May 8 Chamlong led another large rally at Democracy Monument , where some demonstrators came close to clashing with riot police . |
| 5 | Grasping the side of the cage with his talons he fixed his stare on the night sky above where moonlit clouds moved slowly across stars . |
| 6 | Avoiding those which formed part of her father 's collection of naked Indian or Japanese bodies locked together in unusually gymnastic postures , she had , throughout her childhood , stuck to the Italian schools of painting . |
| 7 | and computer may be via ribbon cable or individual wires drawn together into a neat harness secured with cable ties . |
| 8 | fresh or dried leaves used sparingly for fish , salads , stuffing for chicken , pork , in puddings , with ice cream , mushroom dishes |
| 9 | Do terrorists or illegal persons travel exclusively by train ? |
| 10 | Empowerment through widespread use of communication of information has been seen by Clark ( 1979 ) to be a key feature of the ringi-ko decision-making system , where printed documents circulate widely through the enterprise for comment and discussion . |
| 11 | The Text table contains the full text of all versions of all entries from whatever source , OED , Supplement , NEWS ( New Words to be added for 1989 ) , or those entries created directly by lexicographers . |
| 12 | There will often be complications in that there can be two or more operators working simultaneously with overlapping tasks . |
| 13 | For example , between 1970 and 1982 the ratio of women to men achieving two or more A-levels rose steadily from 75:100 to 95:100 and the corresponding ratio for university entrants rose from 40:100 to 70:100 . |
| 14 | Two or more clauses joined together by co-ordinate conjunctions . |
| 15 | When either 2 or 6 words had also to be held in memory then reaction times for both hemispheres improved but more so for the left hemisphere than for the right hemisphere , leading to a RVF superiority . |
| 16 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 17 | Water-worn or rounded pieces look more in keeping with the aquascape , and sharp corners must be avoided as they can injure your fish . |
| 18 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |
| 19 | Were they a group , he wondered , or just individuals travelling together for comfort and security ? |
| 20 | Use a proprietary cuttings compost , and fill a 9 cm ( 3½ in ) pot to within 6 mm ( ½ in ) of the rim , using drainage material , then put three or four cuttings spaced evenly round the side of the pot and , if there is room , one in the middle . |
| 21 | Jane had been hurt by her parents ' occasional references to her in newspaper interviews as being a ‘ difficult child ’ or other remarks prompted only by Laura 's nagging worries about what the future might hold for Jane . |
| 22 | A chemical smell on the breath or unexplained traces of glue or other solvents found either on the body or on clothes . |
| 23 | The Kingsley Club overlooked the wild and rugged Bathsheba beach , where huge boulders rose majestically from the thundering Atlantic surf . |
| 24 | Each of these representatives , all of whom were personnel directors or senior managers reporting directly to the board , participated in a structured interview ( see Appendix for details ) which focused on the stimuli , dynamics and politics of the change process . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Levellers did challenge the traditional view that political rights belonged exclusively to property- or landowners , and asserted the democratic proposition that those persons whom Cromwell loftily described as having " no interest but the interest of breathing " had political rights too . |
| 26 | ( McRobbie 1978 ) Subsequent work has challenged the view that political effects follow straightforwardly from the reading of particular genres and suggested that , in according texts all the power , and readers none , much of the debate about women readers is dangerously misogynist in tone : ( Light 1984 ) , Moss 1989b ) : |
| 27 | He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils . |
| 28 | One manager reports that some parents reacted badly to the basic but intrusive questions . |
| 29 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |
| 30 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |