Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intense involvement which can soon develop makes programming one of those rather rare activities in which time can cease to exist and the passage of hours goes by unnoticed . |
| 2 | While a Hague Rules inspired bill of lading can be challenged by an issuing bank on the basis that Article 3(3) of the Hague Rules defers to municipal law for unlisted requirements , decisional law does not reveal any such challenge . |
| 3 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 4 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 5 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 6 | Although Howell was cited to the Court , none of the three judgments refers to that decision , and Templeman and Denning L.JJ. made remarks that were at variance with it . |
| 7 | Second , it is sometimes of interest to know if price changes ( or returns ) have a symmetric or skewed distribution ( a skewed distribution , for example , would mean that the risk of margin calls differs between long and short positions ) . |
| 8 | The word " God " in all the theistic religions refers to that Mystery which is at once transcendent and immanent . |
| 9 | As a result , the proportions of digested teeth declines as post-depositional breakage increases because the isolated teeth are usually more frequently digested than are the in situ teeth ( compare Table 3.12 columns 4 and 6 ) . |
| 10 | The second set of strategies looks to outside sources of support . |
| 11 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES looks at generational conflict re furnishing and pictures of Jesus . |
| 12 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 13 | Secondly , migration from the cities has in net terms been removing the types of people that are least affected by increasing unemployment . |
| 14 | According to Hille , research and development spending for new products stands at 15 per cent compared with 85 per cent for existing products : this would be an even split by the end of the year , he said . |
| 15 | The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard . |
| 16 | One can , for instance , employ letters of the alphabet , but if the list of major subjects goes past 26 one is in trouble . |
| 17 | The Two Nudes represents in many ways the culmination of the ‘ Iberian ’ phase in Picasso 's art . |
| 18 | Letter : Arts grants for ethnic minorities |
| 19 | One of the region 's strangest townlets sits on those marshes : Brouage . |
| 20 | What we are doing in our Town Halls fits into this broader picture . |
| 21 | Winning the award is a symbol of the excellence that can be attained in catering , and the list of previous winners testifies to this , including many internationally renowned chefs , such as Anton Mosimann and Willi Elsener . |
| 22 | Then each of the branches splits into two sub-branches . |
| 23 | When they reach the borders of their territory , they take a few steps with lowered hindquarters so that long grass passing between their back legs rubs against this gland and acquires a smell that even a human nose can easily detect . |
| 24 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 25 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 26 | I have suggested that the curriculum content of our primary schools has in broad terms always been ‘ agreed ’ . |
| 27 | The terms of this participation have been endlessly argued about , and the increasing practice of the advance on royalties has to some extent modified it , in restoring an element of purchase . |
| 28 | The total jobless for more than 12 months stands at 956,000 , a four-and-a-half year high . |
| 29 | The greatest geographical concentration of provenanced medieval French fabliaux lies in this area of Picardy , and the use of the resurrected dialectal form is thus justified . |
| 30 | That is to say , his explanation of long waves lies in technological change which results from the bunching of innovations made by entrepreneurs . |