Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that groups produce public goods , it is always possible to ‘ free-ride ’ , taking the benefits of group activity without incurring the costs of joining . |
| 2 | Some courts treat these terms in an omnibus fashion ; natural justice is said to be but a manifestation of a broader concept of fairness . |
| 3 | It 's amazing how quickly my few possessions become disarranged . |
| 4 | Few Keynesians hold this extreme position today . |
| 5 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 6 | For example , some woods turn darker as they age , so you may want to take that into account when choosing something very pale . |
| 7 | Yes ! some woods produce little heat and a lot of ash . ’ |
| 8 | Some satellites remain stationary relative to the Earth . |
| 9 | Some forms have delicate exterior skeletons that are only preserved under exceptional circumstances ( see p. 16 ) . |
| 10 | Longest diameter of this specimen is 9 cm , but some forms grow larger . |
| 11 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 12 | Social stratification is , as we have seen , structured inequality in society , such that some strata have more power and reward than others . |
| 13 | In the banking and insurance sector , for instance , some employers give taxable transfer grants on top of the non-taxable disturbance allowances . |
| 14 | Some planets hug close , hot enough to melt lead . |
| 15 | Very few molecules have electronic transitions below this range , in the IR region , but all molecules have most if not all of their electronic transitions in the far-UV region , above 50 000 cm -1 . |
| 16 | I did n't know anything about the way some birds use warm air currents to help their flight . |
| 17 | Some birds fly incredible distances . |
| 18 | Some hairdressers charge extra for this but it 's well worth paying a few pounds for . |
| 19 | Techniques in hairdressing have advanced enormously and it 's fantastic what you can do , but unfortunately some hairdressers abuse that power . |
| 20 | Some biologists regard this as the only , or at least as the predominant , mechanism of speciation , whereas others take a more pluralist view . |
| 21 | But while some reasons favour monthly payments and others favour quarterly ones , neither is sufficient to establish the superiority of doing it one way rather than the other . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the whole basis of survey work is one of trust and relatively few interviewers abuse this trust . |
| 23 | Equally , some activities require considerable co-operation between ‘ peripheral ’ agencies while others require very little . |
| 24 | Few policies cover pre-existing conditions , self-inflicted injury or pregnancy-related claims . |
| 25 | Ampullaria , unlike some snails have separate sexes . |
| 26 | While some policies contain few features that their opponents can interfere with — laying down , for example , a clear duty to provide a particular service or benefit — others , such as the DHSS commitment to the development of community care for the mentally ill , depend heavily upon the commitments of implementers , and are relatively easily diverted in other directions or even rendered ineffective . |
| 27 | Some clinics have special youth advisory sessions . |
| 28 | Some clinics have special youth advisory sessions . |
| 29 | Some statisticians dislike this property : they prefer symmetric measures of association which take the same value whichever way round the causal effect is presumed to run . |
| 30 | A few cases dominate this reporting , while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper . |