Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 2 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 3 | After an elegant supper given by the Racing and Breeding Fine Arts Fund at Christie 's on 1 June , forty ‘ Colourmasters ’ were auctioned , raising in total £128,000 in aid of more than thirty charities including Racing Welfare , the Equine Fertility Endowment Appeal , the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind , Crusaid and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 4 | Not least amongst these reports are those of Brake ( 1980 ) , Rudduck and Hopkins ( 1984 ) , Hounsell and Martin ( 1983 ) and Tabberer and Allman ( 1983 ) , all of which argue the need to promote the acquisition of a broad range of information-handling skills in line with both the growth of information technology and the increasing emphasis on self-directed learning . |
| 5 | Finally , on 17th August 1801 , Commander Dundas was appointed acting captain of the newly commissioned San Antonio , having completed the transition from junior lieutenant to post-captain in just over one year . |
| 6 | Is it not clear from today 's awful rise in unemployment to more than 2.5 million that the recession is continuing ? |
| 7 | A complete course of value to both native and non-native speakers of English who wish to acquire knowledge of and practice in the full gamut of business communication : letters , memos , graphs , telex , flow-charts , timetables , year-planners , proof reading , itineraries , CVs and many more . |
| 8 | The Education Deliberation Committee on Textbooks of National History has submitted guidelines to the South Korean Ministry of Education on how the history of the inhabitants of the Korean Peninsula can be doctored into a saga of the heroic descent of a single people from time immemorial , the overture to an entirely modern symphony . |
| 9 | Elsewhere in the country , there are groups of farm buildings laid out on a courtyard plan that can undergo a complete change of use with virtually no visible alterations to the external appearance . |
| 10 | Then suddenly there was a strong wave of pressure from behind , as if all the world was at her back . |
| 11 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 12 | Deaf people in some conditions of sign presentation provide evidence of LHA when temporally salient cues are available , but at the same time show the superficially confusing effect of RHA for statically perceived signs . |
| 13 | Made in a number of sizes , including extremely large carpets , they feature a range of traditional Spanish and modern European designs in addition to more Persian and Anatolian-inspired schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 15 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 16 | It was a different kind of argument from any he had heard before ; it was friendly and joking . |
| 17 | The spread of the TNCs has brought significant changes to the sexual division of labour in both the First and the Third World . |
| 18 | Moreover , all recent evidence suggests a high level of interest among both Afro-Caribbean and Asian parents in their children 's schooling and records high aspirations for their children 's performance ( Tomlinson , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | Roget 's Thesaurus and a set of back copies of Zoom and Creative Review are not enough for this : creative people need , ideally , to have wide and varied interests , and a high level of curiosity about almost any subject under the sun . |
| 20 | I meant to bring my own , but I forgot , and somebody 's used the wrong kind of pen on here , so you ca n't rub that off . |
| 21 | Developed as a direct result of research into how the human brain works , expert systems are bringing a powerful new commodity to business — computer-based knowledge . |
| 22 | There has been a marked loss in confidence in virtually all British institutions over the past decade , particularly the press , the Church , the legal system and parliament . |
| 23 | ’ There are different schools of thought on how a rural churchyard should look . ’ |
| 24 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 25 | What this suggests is that a different type of decision-making with correspondingly different procedures may be more relevant . |
| 26 | The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor . |
| 27 | But from the British point of view at least a breathing space had been secured . |
| 28 | , John ( 1422 ? –1459/60 ) , composer , left a small but distinguished body of work in both secular and sacred music . |
| 29 | There were two grand old pieces of furniture in there , a huge square pine table with thick bulbous legs and four small drawers beneath the overhanging table top and a pine dresser of enormous proportions , with a cupboard beneath , two stout deep drawers and four shelves that reached to ceiling height , each stacked with blue willow pattern plates and festooned beneath with pretty china cups hanging from hooks . |
| 30 | It is , by nature , expansionist because declining soil fertility on cultivated land necessitates a continual process of encroachment into previously undisturbed areas . |