Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Outside was sunshine and jubilant birdsong ; inside the dining room , the smell of bacon and rattle of cutlery seemed comfortingly prosaic . |
| 32 | In the study by Holly et al 18% of female cases and 14% of controls reported ever having had anal intercourse . |
| 33 | The shuffling and rustling of bodies settling again into the pews . |
| 34 | Is there evidence of the scheme becoming more of a predictive tool and aid to decision making rather than working primarily in an administrative function ? |
| 35 | The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much . |
| 36 | the female hormones and predisposition to cellulite becomes even clearer when you consider that oestrogen is also instrumental in controlling fluid retention and this in itself is the crux of the cellulite problem . |
| 37 | Literature is introduced as follows : " Real knowledge and appreciation of Literature come only from first-hand study of the works of great writers . |
| 38 | The other chroniclers are less explicit , but give a similar impression , complaints about servitude and oppression and demands for liberty bulking largely in their accounts . |
| 39 | On the far bank , where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force , a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company , never again to meet : Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill , and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall . |
| 40 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 41 | There is a strong tradition that it is bad luck to disturb a standing stone or stone circle and fear of retribution has undoubtedly helped preserve many that might otherwise have been removed for building stone , gateposts and the like . |
| 42 | The author traces the lively thirteenth-century silk trade , as contacts grew with China and traders from Genoa bought ever greater quantities of Persian silk , much of it used to embellish the homes of a prospering merchant class in Europe 's expanding towns . |
| 43 | And , as the old manufacturing heartlands decline , so participation in TUC courses is increasingly drawn from the public sector unions , representing women and men whose labour processes and relationships with employers set quite different constraints to effective struggle from those affecting private-sector workers . |
| 44 | The other is that the molecule magnetite may act as the magnetic sense , and traces of magnetite have indeed been found in bones in the brains of pigeons and other species including humans . |
| 45 | Vocational education and training and methods of certification vary widely in different countries and currently there is little uniformity among member states . |
| 46 | The need for properly enforceable means of control over the supervision and maintenance of reservoirs becomes increasingly urgent . ’ |
| 47 | With these ships the merchants of La Rochelle could compete in the markets of England and Flanders with wines produced nearer at hand in the Paris Basin and the Rhineland . |
| 48 | And animals with horns have sometimes managed to toss their tormentors high in the air when making a last-ditch stand . |
| 49 | Blauner also devotes considerable attention to features of technology which imply that workers are likely to feel a greater sense of belonging and identification with factories using highly automated processes . |
| 50 | The flesh and bones of words rose again to the salvation of their etymologies . |
| 51 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 52 | His homely features and shyness of manner contrasted sharply with Bob 's attractive , open face and easy , merry demeanour . |
| 53 | The circumstances and experiences of life create ever more diversity and certainly by the time old age is reached , differences can be expected to be at their most extreme . |
| 54 | Medicine and law in Canada have recently been jointly involved in the AIDS issue . |
| 55 | Lighted shops painted yellow patches on the pavement and huddles of men stood here and there talking , arguing and gambling . |
| 56 | To lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators . |
| 57 | Anglo-Welsh have stated that one of their principal objectives is ‘ to lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators ’ . |
| 58 | The ingredients are all there : an in-house bank ; a string of obscure firms ( including the appropriately named Croesus International ) based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres ; and blocks of money winging electronically around the world . |
| 59 | Active life in the sense of engagement with the physical necessities and well-being of society belongs properly and sensibly to people who feel no inner compulsion towards , or understanding of , spiritual issues — as he much more trenchantly put it , they have " no sauour " of " goostli occupacioun " ( 12.123 – 4 ) . |
| 60 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |