Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plexus Software Inc , the image processing software specialist based in Swindon , Wiltshire in the UK , has announced two new workflow automation products ImageFlow and Case Management Application — CMA . |
| 2 | Fran had n't expected to sleep , but she did , deeply and dreamlessly , and awoke to the sound of birds singing and sunlight streaming in through the window . |
| 3 | Some causes , he suggests , arise from texts themselves : the difficulty of apprehending the full range of meaning , and the inevitable differences in readers ' reactions to sound and imagery . |
| 4 | THE 1980s opened with British Transport Hotels ( BTH ) still running around thirty traditional railway hotels ; with its Travellers-Fare wing sprucing up its portfolio of dull , old-fashioned refreshment rooms , and restaurant cars continuing to suffer declining patronage as journey times shortened and eating habits changed . |
| 5 | New attitudes to work and leisure require radically new social and economic policies which few politicians , of the left or right , are prepared to contemplate . |
| 6 | Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing . |
| 7 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 8 | A wire balloon should be fitted into the top of each downpipe to prevent birds nesting and debris getting down the pipe |
| 9 | It was a pre-emptive strike against attempts to rewrite and water down his proposals in the months ahead . |
| 10 | Yet what is interesting is that , when a query was raised as to the meaning and effect of subsection ( 2 ) , in the context of the liability of journalists to search and interrogation , the Minister of State described it in terms which are consistent only with its having been inserted to cover the case of a holder who himself was a party to the criminal purpose . |
| 11 | Facilities for shops unloading and loading . |
| 12 | In the Richardson case , both parties develop and market computer programs used by pharmacists for the purpose of producing labels for prescriptions and stock control . |
| 13 | The ice-caps re-freeze and sea level falls again , so the volcanos stop erupting . |
| 14 | Within factories major developments have been the applications of computers to process and production control , the introduction of computer-aided design and draughting ( CAD ) , computer numerically controlled ( CNC ) machine tools , and robots . |
| 15 | The parallaxes of the stockyards shift and quake . |
| 16 | This last autumn South East Arts tried and experiment in Brighton and organized a series of five so-called fringe theatrical productions at the Pavilion Theatre over a period of two months . |
| 17 | With well written characters the words fit and flow so that the actor can ride with ease , and the thoughts , no matter how disjointed , have a natural quality that is at once ‘ actable ’ . |
| 18 | Serum uric acid and blood urea concentrations rose and serum potassium fell significantly during diuretic treatment , suggesting good compliance ( confirmed by pill counts and the changes in pulse rates ) . |
| 19 | There are all sorts and shapes of spider between these two extremes , including the creatures about the size of small ponies which Forest Goblins capture and ride . |
| 20 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 21 | It was , he says , the first decent school that he was ever in , a cheerful , disciplined place where manners mattered and clothing did n't . |
| 22 | Hedge-hopping yellow hammers proved another diversion and a flock of blue ties flickered and contact-called , ‘ psi-psi-psi ’ , from the willows down by the water 's edge . |
| 23 | Out in the bush the nomadic people still drive their camels and cattle over huge tracts of land , but the herds have been decimated , and along with the drought , some watering holes are now out-of-bounds as clan allegiances shift and change . |
| 24 | Finding weedy 17-year-old c—s at concerts and stage-diving on to their heads to try and f— up their whole night |
| 25 | We invited hon. Members from all Opposition parties to consult and debate with us the best form of taxation to replace the community charge . |
| 26 | The wind rattled at the bars and made the doors of the Cages shake and squeak . |
| 27 | Hear how the demons chuckle and yell |
| 28 | After getting their men off to work every morning there were the cows to chase off to the moor , hens to feed and housework to be done , then the serious work could be tackled . |
| 29 | In the 1980s , some egalitarian feminists have responded to political constraints by reviving this approach , and only supporting gradualist , defensive , or ‘ new realist ’ campaigns around , for instance , equal employment opportunities hiring and firing . |
| 30 | Like Clark , her argument is an all-or-nothing affair : either animals hope and fear or they do not . |