Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open . |
| 2 | Whether we regard state policies towards small firms as rhetorical gestures or as genuine attempts to protect their existence , there does appear to be renewed interest in preserving a differentiated industrial structure . |
| 3 | In principle , feudal tenure was the source from which most monarchs and most great lords recruited their armies between the tenth century and the twelfth . |
| 4 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 5 | Their world was petrified , and only fifty metres separated their sanctuary from the sea of red death . |
| 6 | Most amphitheatres were very large and all important towns possessed their own which were used for displays of all kinds but particularly for gladiatorial combat and exhibitions . |
| 7 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 8 | Most of them , protected by their voluntary-aided status , resisted for twenty years and more all attempts to change their fiercely academic character or to entangle them in vague schemes of amalgamation or co-operation with secondary modern schools . |
| 9 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , more and more Anglican theologians turned their backs on the rigid predestinarian Calvinism so prevalent in the pre-1660 period in favour of a modified version of the Arminian position on salvation . |
| 10 | More and more worried teenagers spend their Easter at intensive revision courses , such as those run by Cherwell Tutors in Oxford . |
| 11 | As more and more concerned organisations make their voice heard , the greater is our chance for a more informed society . |
| 12 | With Leeds losing 2-1 at Ibrox , they needed at least two and preferably three goals to rescue their ambitions . |
| 13 | She had realised from when she was a tiny child that Phoebe did not love her as she loved Phoebe , and as other mothers loved their lovely daughters . |
| 14 | No one has devised a research method , short of market trials , that can compare different media — and even such tests have their pitfalls . |
| 15 | The invader may even enlist the help of his bachelor buddies to distract the stallion while he pinches the mares : horses , especially stallions , are quite capable of devious and even elaborate plots to achieve their aims . |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce is no exception here , and we have written some APL programs , first to calculate an employee 's severance terms ( see figure 12 ) and then further programs to monitor their effectiveness . |
| 17 | Her body became hot , and quite extraordinary feelings affected her limbs and stomach . |
| 18 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 19 | But much worse ones took their place . |
| 20 | Faldo carved just three birdies from the unforgiving terrain but only three bogeys blemished his card . |
| 21 | There was some variation between the practices , but only three fundholders reduced their rates , which may be due to normal year on year differences . |
| 22 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 23 | But more enervating diseases took their toll , and a man with the malaria shakes every afternoon is not at his best when aiming a rifle . |
| 24 | Feline individualism begins to assert itself , and anyone who has owned , say , a crossbred tabby , a Siamese , a Persian and an Abyssinian will know that not only different individuals but also different breeds have their own special vocal characteristics . |