Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way down , the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care . |
| 2 | The proportion of adolescents among the female population married or in union varies greatly among developing countries and , depending on local traditions , their problems and the perception of these problems also vary from country to country . |
| 3 | It lessens the risk of coronary heart disease , is good for lungs as well as heart , keeps muscles and bones healthy and in women helps to prevent osteoporosis ( thinning of the bones ) . |
| 4 | WP Yes , but South Korea started from a nil base so far as industrialisation was concerned and with labour costs not much above peasant-subsistence level . |
| 5 | Sharing work , yet retaining a clear sense of role , is obviously more difficult but potentially rewarding and in Maidstone seems to be working well . |
| 6 | The aircraft has been fully operational since 1987 and to date has completed more than 650 centrifugal launches with a better than 98% success rate — not such an outlandish scheme after all ! |
| 7 | Josie Lawrence 's girlish reading is rather daunting at first but in fact hits the right note for this unexpectedly cheering and totally unsentimental little fable . |
| 8 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 9 | It looks spectacular but in reality shoots very smoothly . |
| 10 | Keith Rickaby The Care Bears Magic Show : Sunderland Empire MICKEY , Tim and Chris were the age of the typical audience the under-eights and with Care Bears you know your feelings beforehand about sitting two hours to see human-sized puppets performing on stage . |