Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a chance of winning one of these fabulous pairs of boots all you have to do is find the following eight words in the word square : LINE 7 , GORETEX , GT RIFT , RAIDER , PANDA , RANGER , ROVER and LADY GT . |
| 2 | It may be , for example , that youngsters will pick up from this programme some hint of the rich variety of occupations all of which are often hidden under the umbrella heading of science . |
| 3 | ‘ Cause brothers do that shit to bitches all the time ’ . |
| 4 | There is also a formal element of crime detection , although in the normal course of events all they encounter is shoplifting and parking offences . |
| 5 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take months . |
| 6 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take time under French law , and they 're likely to take even longer in this case because he refuses to make any move whatever until you are actually there — in France . ’ |
| 7 | In the normal course of events this would have been ‘ tidied up ’ — wiped out as part of the scheme and conveniently buried . |
| 8 | Medically there is little change in factors such as blood pressure , and risk of heart disease , though there could be a moderate fall in blood cholesterol level if this is elevated at the start of the diet . |
| 9 | We are always delighted to arrange private views for societies such as yours , and will do our best to accommodate your requirements . |
| 10 | Frequently , however , items that now have low and/or back vowels , are given with [ Ε ] : these include rether for ‘ rather ’ ( a rural Scots residue ) , e for a in single nasal environments in polysyllables such as exemine , Jenuary and in nasal cluster environments such as demsel , exemple , Entrim ( 'Antrim' ) , slent , bendy ( 'bandy' ) , brench . |
| 11 | Recent attempts to subdivide the largely homogeneous psammites of the Grampian Group into shallow- and deep-water facies are supported in part by the regional distributions of elements such as cobalt and vanadium . |
| 12 | It will also help fund the establishment of new national parks , tribal homelands and extractive reserves for activities such as rubber tapping and Brazil nut gathering . |
| 13 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 14 | The fiction may be spoken at different times by characters such as " Chaucer " , the Miller and the Reeve . |
| 15 | Writing in 1972 , McGregor suggested that : ‘ the last two decades have witnessed the cumulative removal of restraints both of custom and law upon behaviour , and upon their public portrayal in print or in the visual arts ’ . |
| 16 | I know you appear in programmes about race relations from time to time , but you 're not one of the usual old gang of faces that everyone 's sick of . |
| 17 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 18 | These sheets lined different areas of the tomb and separated different groups of offerings such as ceramic vessels , bronze implements , llama limbs and shell beads . |
| 19 | While many of these types of work categories are still very broad , what the tables ( and diagrams ) show clearly is that there is a marked contrast between subjects such as computing and engineering ( civil , electrical/electronic , mechanical ) where one type of work absorbs 70 per cent or more of the graduate output , and subjects such as English , history , biological sciences or social studies where graduates are absorbed into a fairly even plurality of occupations ; with everything in between these two extremes . |
| 20 | The involvement of influential people , including many heterosexuals , in all areas of public life ; the high visibility of figures such as Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman ; the size and nature of the demonstrations and direct actions made it great television material . |
| 21 | In conclusion , I make this plea to countries such as Germany — a country for which I have the highest regard : they should be cautious about promising recognition for Croatia and Slovenia by any precise date , and about breaking ranks within the European Community . |
| 22 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |
| 23 | IBM Corp last week boosted the versatility of its Power Visualisation System , a parallel server for generating and manipulating complex images at high speed in applications such as medicine and geophysics , and cut prices on the thing by 25% to 40% , lowering the entry point to $320,000 from $528,000 . |
| 24 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 25 | Selected or key settlements may be service centres ; they may also be associated with public investment in facilities such as schools and council housing , and designated for residential expansion or for industrial growth ( Woodruffe 1976 ) . |
| 26 | In spite of receiving sharp criticism of this practice from researchers such as Reeves and Chevannes ( 1981 ) the Swann Committee repeated this model of data collection . |
| 27 | Moreover , there are difficulties in knowing how to relate different sorts of probabilities such as those which concern the degree of credit to be given to a judgement and those which are of a statistical nature . |
| 28 | Because company law fails to differentiate in any consistent fashion between these different sorts of companies all are treated as regulated by the traditional legal framework which we have been examining . |
| 29 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 30 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |