Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wildlife is abundant in fish , ducks and water hens , and it is a great joy in springtime to see mother ducks bring their families down the steep church embankment , across the road and onto the pond . |
| 2 | By understanding how various properties of objects influence their identification , we gain the background knowledge necessary for building more efficient artificial recognition systems , for understanding the development of recognition in children , and its impairment after brain damage . |
| 3 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 4 | Last week , the Liberal Democrats published proposals for breaking up British Telecom into a number of components to provide effective and proper competition , and create regional corporate headquarters of benefit to our regions , which find that massive monopolies concentrate their headquarters elsewhere in the country — by definition , in one place . |
| 5 | Here , Chris Bonington looks at the way climbers develop their skills in order to test the above criteria , and sketches in the larger-than-life personalities and rivalries within the sport . |
| 6 | The details are still missing , but the main outlines are becoming clear as United States and European statesmen make their pronouncements and tour the capitals of their Middle Eastern allies in an atmosphere of ever greater confidence . |
| 7 | In the latter case , an exact equivalent to grammar in linguistics is unlikely to be found , since , as noted earlier , objects gain their effect from their comparative lack of abstraction and the various bridging functions they can thereby perform . |
| 8 | Like banks , the discount houses make their profit by a process of maturity transformation : by borrowing short and lending long — or to be more precise , by borrowing very short indeed and lending slightly less short . |
| 9 | The walled gardens surrounding Boscean Country Hotel are a shelter for wildlife — badgers , foxes and a wide variety of birds make their home here in the shadow of two ancient Celtic crosses . |
| 10 | The Italian states advertise their prosperity in buildings like the fifth-century temples at Paestum ( Posidonia ) , which are comparable in size to those at Akragas , but are on a higher artistic and technical level . |
| 11 | It may be harmless enough if mail-order suppliers of gardening sundries sell their mailing lists to publishers of gardening encyclopaedias — it is perhaps more questionable if access to share registers of companies is used to circulate shareholders with party-political propaganda about privatisation or nationalisation . |
| 12 | Everyone has heard that the mustard giants make their money from the amount of the condiment that is left on the sides of our plates . |
| 13 | The courts make their calculations on the basis of the current provisions and do not speculate on future changes . |
| 14 | You have given me a seat where poets of all times bring their tribute , and lovers with deathless names greet one another across the ages . |
| 15 | Now the larger giant supertankers bring their oil to the deep water terminal at Finnart , on the western fjord coast , and a new pipeline carries it to Grangemouth . |
| 16 | The Crues make their UEFA Cup debut against Swiss side Servette Geneva at Seaview on Tuesday with no fewer than five of their regulars classed as ‘ foreigners ’ . |
| 17 | It said Marble Arch was good erm but because you ca n't park here it gave a that you could do like three or four loads load your car up , come back , load your car up |
| 18 | If the position of power that comes about when shareholders combine their property in a company is damaging in either of these ways , then an invocation of ownership rights will not constitute a conclusive justification . |
| 19 | This chapter has been concerned with outlining the principal methods by which suppliers of products bring their goods and services to the attention of their markets , with the object of increasing their sales or market share , or both . |
| 20 | Cuckoo-bees make their way into the nests of other kinds of bees and leave their eggs there to be tended and reared by others . |
| 21 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 22 | ‘ They get an allowance until the riggers bring their cycle back again . |
| 23 | She is employed at the stores five evenings a week and on Sundays , and says the Sunday hours mean her husband can look after the children while she works . |
| 24 | Both snails rub their penises together , and finally insert them into each other . |
| 25 | If the pure in heart gain integrity , then peacemakers gain their wholeness and health . |
| 26 | Typically 1300-1400 bargaining groups report their settlement each year . |
| 27 | Our experts solve your problems |
| 28 | Germans want their children to become scientists or engineers ; the French want theirs to be teachers ; the British , lawyers ; the Italians , clerks . |
| 29 | But it is up front where the experts ply their trade and both Ian Wright and Les Ferdinand are bouncing with confidence . |
| 30 | Liverpool recently paid Bournemouth £75,000 after Jamie 's 25th first-team match for them and Spurs want their cut . |