Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflecting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 2 | Journalists rarely investigate , tending to report only the words and actions of others . |
| 3 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 4 | There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined . |
| 5 | The new research assessment exercise has been brought forward in anticipation of ending the binary line and bringing together the polytechnics and universities in one sector . |
| 6 | The European Commission 's COMETT programme is aimed at high-level technology training , and its projects bring together the providers and users of training . |
| 7 | Having completed this basic indoctrination , the budding smallholder will know better the joys and frustrations , the rewards and risks , the freedom and the discipline that make up farming . |
| 8 | In the other condition subjects viewed the same films in the same manner but described only the risks and potential risks in each section of film . |
| 9 | Electrical forces are basic to the system , being attributes of the sub-atomic particles , and it is electrical attraction which holds together the atoms and molecules . |
| 10 | The office copy entries replace entirely the deeds and documents of title described above . |
| 11 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 12 | Peel away the ridges but if it 's young , leave on some green ; if older , peel the skin . |
| 13 | Travis swore and bent down , stripping away the blankets and lifting her into his arms without any effort at all . |
| 14 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 15 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 16 | On do you know like the Buses or the |
| 17 | Television , especially highlights both the strengths and defects of the modern player , and the papers continue the process of daily analysing players and teams . |
| 18 | British Transport Police say both the saboteurs and the huntsmen could face prosecution for trespass . |
| 19 | In this sense , studying mutations is a bit like using inhibitors to block particular metabolic processes , and has both the strengths and weaknesses of such methods , discussed in the previous chapter and in Criterion Four . |
| 20 | This management agreement is to formally set out the relationship between them to establish the investment policies to be pursued , the powers of the trustees or the investors , and the investment advisors , to establish clearly the fees and charges which are to be made by the advisors and the basis on which they will be made . |
| 21 | It is , however , worth stressing what Jessop has said in support of his own neo-Marxist approach to the analysis of power and the state , because it emphasises both the strengths and weaknesses of the Marxist school of writings : ‘ an adequate theoretical analysis of the state [ and power ] must consider not only economic determinations but also those rooted in the distinctive organisation of the state as well as in the social division of labour between officialdom and people ’ . |
| 22 | However , ‘ she said that she now has really no friends or relations in the world and there are times when she feels very lonely . |
| 23 | I hear from those who have not been imprisoned in the debate for a long time that the electronic media have reported well the exchanges that took place . |
| 24 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 25 | and then gradually they would give you a wee bit say maybe the legs or something to do a er polish you know show you how to start you know , how to rubber and how to fold your the cotton wool . |
| 26 | Hardly anyone in the packed congregations of about 1,500 people seemed to know either the hymns or the prayers . |
| 27 | However , he does not consider either the costs and returns to different groups in society nor different regions of the world . |
| 28 | Worthy though that organisation 's aims may be , it has neither the resources nor the authority to undertake the vital work which the United Nations has given it . |
| 29 | The college can not justify the use of its facilities , let along expand its activities , as it has neither the resources or required support facilities . |
| 30 | However , in the case of particles emitted from a black hole , the fact that one can not observe what is going on inside the black hole means that one can definitely predict neither the positions nor the velocities of the emitted particles . |