Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth , we show a preference for working with certain types of subject matter , whether concepts , schedules , detailed data , visual material , technical mechanisms , money , other people 's skills , physical structures or systems based on symbols such as languages and mathematics . |
| 2 | There are often wall recesses holding utensils and objects used in life such as helmets , swords , knives , kitchen pots and pans etc . |
| 3 | I saw my first tuberous begonias on the Blackmore and Langdon stand at Chelsea many years ago . |
| 4 | It is helpful for the candidate and department to identify in advance any special conditions that the department may decide should apply in the proposed candidate 's area of study . |
| 5 | The government had the right to control private investment in the interests of society , and Courtauld agreed with Beveridge that to surrender this freedom would not necessarily lead to the erosion of others . |
| 6 | Must also like cinema and literature- Write to Liz today-All letters answered . |
| 7 | Another important aspect of this is the issue of whether community economic development was merely a palliative measure with limited potential for addressing the problems of unemployment and deprivation experienced in areas such as West Belfast . |
| 8 | Most local historians are familiar with the term ‘ regnal year ’ and are used to seeing dates in printed texts and commentaries expressed in forms such as 11 Edward III , or 63 Victoria , meaning a time between 25 January 1337 and 24 January 1338 , or between 20 June 1899 and 19 June 1900 respectively . |
| 9 | Huge tawny chrysanthemums big as setting suns , gold dahlias like lions ’ manes , yellow roses , sheaves of corn , briar and elder glowing with berries all brought a glow to the ancient yellow stone . |
| 10 | ( ii ) Teaching about language should encourage discussion of vocabulary that is specific to local communities — words for local places , buildings , institutions etc , and local usages such as bairn ( cf child ) , baps ( cf rolls ) , outwith ( cf outside ) ; or to particular age groups , eg frock ( cf dress ) , wireless ( cf radio ) ; or to certain occupations eg the specialist terms and acronyms used by groups such as doctors , lawyers , builders , computer experts and mechanics . |
| 11 | Below , in the middle distance , buildings and palms lay in clusters several miles apart . |
| 12 | ‘ What were the identities of the young man and woman killed near Godstowe some eighteen months ago ? ’ |
| 13 | I think that very often where Bentham and Beccaria differ in detail this is traceable to Beccaria 's conviction that what may be done in the name of utility should be limited by consideration of what befits the dignity of man . |
| 14 | Mr Howell said Phillips and Drew calculated in February that to sell the portfolio would have cost the council £69.1m . |
| 15 | The controls exercised by basement structure on late Precambrian and Dalradian sedimentation are evident from the regional geochemistry , with abrupt variations , for example , in titanium , vanadium , chromium , nickel , magnesium , cobalt and copper coinciding with features such as the Portsoy lineament . |
| 16 | Much is uncertain , but the triumphs of Swegen and Cnut are not , and the ability to organise men and materials suggested by works such as the Trelleborg camps would have been vital in orchestrating campaigns against the English , who had considerable administrative resources of their own . |
| 17 | George Eccles , of Deloitte , predicted that major groups such as Germany 's Bertelsmann and interests controlled by magnates such as Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo de Benedetti would bid for television franchises . |
| 18 | Conventional game theory shows clearly why East and West compete to out-gun each other . |
| 19 | Speakers like Sir David Weatherall from Oxford and Keith Peters from Cambridge all agreed that a proper training means at least three years doing nothing but research . |
| 20 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 21 | Slater and Woodside met with comments such as ‘ I want some fun out of life ; I 'm not interested in raising the birth rate ’ . |
| 22 | Rampant Banbridge never looked back after this early let-off and second-half tries from scrum half Neil Thompson and flanker Derek Muirhead secured victory . |
| 23 | Christine Merlin also told Mr Justice Gatehouse that the fertility of her breeding geese diminished and goslings hatched with abnormalities such as ‘ heads on the wrong way round and wings in peculiar positions ’ . |
| 24 | It is only occasionally , as in the case of Fowles or Durrell , for example , that postmodernism has generated the kind of respect and popularity enjoyed by authors such as Thomas Pynchon , Italo Calvino and Gabriel García Márquez . |
| 25 | The journey was slow and subject to inexplicable stops in mid-country ; although the war in Europe was over , the carriages were still full of men in uniform ; there were long queues for the tea trolleys at York and Grantham but Constance arrived in London that evening with her excitement undimmed . |
| 26 | The goal is a political agreement in July between the council , commission and parliament — but acceptance rests with ratification this summer of the Maastricht Treaty . |