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 | Associative feminist psychologies address the different signification systems which make up psychology 's material and psychology itself . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The primary , but not exclusive , focus is on Scottish IT firms which make up a localised sample that could be comprehensively surveyed . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | In one of the few remaining parking spaces she pulled up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He argues that most individual subject areas themselves turn out on closer examination to contain a diversity of research styles and epistemological characteristics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 12 | Apart from moisture vapour , the air also contains millions of tiny plant spores which float around looking for somewhere to live and multiply . |
| 13 | 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 ) … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The highest contribution to January 's inflow came from Index-linked Savings Certificates which brought in £74 million . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 18 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 19 | What was a night out without a sing-song ? ln broad Somerset accents they bellowed out the words , waving their flagons in unison . |
| 20 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 21 | Then Allan appeared at Gateshead in those black cycling shorts which reached down to just above his knee . |
| 22 | The official ecology alliance suffered from a proliferation of dissident ecologist candidates who picked up 3 to 4 per cent of the vote . |
| 23 | The majority of those who brought censure upon themselves as wastrels and hardly civilised brutes were long voyage men who shipped out from such ports as London , Liverpool and Bristol in the East Indian , West Indian , African and American trades . |
| 24 | The great compound curves which swept out from the guard vibrated under his hand , and the bowstring produced a low musical sound . |
| 25 | Among the most cost-effective holidays to Euro Disney are those run by Eurocamp ( 0565–633844 ) which sells accommodation in a 130-acre ‘ wilderness retreat ’ where guests stay in log-cabin- style trailers which sleep up to six people . |
| 26 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 27 | Much of the upland moors are given a scale and a softer appearance by the long fingers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stone walls which push up their valley sides . |
| 28 | Modern consumer units contain miniature circuit breakers which switch off automatically in the event of a fault . |
| 29 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 30 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |