Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 2 | We have evidence from cosmic rays that the same is true for all the matter in our galaxy : there are no antiprotons or antineutrons apart from a small number that are produced as particle/antiparticle pairs in high-energy collisions . |
| 3 | Neglected children were sent to special schools and never allowed to see their mothers or fathers or nannies again for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | The [ defendants ] do return forthwith to [ their ] London branch or branches from which such documents emanated any documents or copies thereof of the type described in paragraph 1(a) of this order which the [ defendants have ] already removed from the jurisdiction in connection with the said subpoena , and [ defendants are ] hereby restrained until trial or further order without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs from delivering up or disclosing such documents to the said grand jury or any other third party . |
| 5 | Heart pounding with excitement , he barged through the door and into the dock , where Germans both on the dockside and aboard the ships ran for cover , beginning to open fire at the intruders . |
| 6 | I expect we would be able to sell the Benson & Hedges again to a new sponsor . ’ |
| 7 | And it observes that the use of regulation or taxes instead of the market creates inefficiencies and slows economic growth . |
| 8 | No robots or computers anywhere in the world can imitate the complex functions of your human body . |
| 9 | When telling fibs , your child may stand awkwardly , holding her arms stiffly and covering her mouth or eyes fleetingly with a hand . |
| 10 | If the Scatter dice is an arrow the stone has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown on the Artillery dice . |
| 11 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 12 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 13 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 14 | Above all , this must come from the head teacher and from the senior staff of the school ; from any special needs specialists or teams already in the school ; from members of the new advisory and support services , as well as from educational psychologists , social workers and any health professionals who may be involved . |
| 15 | The opportunities for using knowledge to shop around successfully for good-value credit involve both choosing between different types of credit ( bank loan versus H P , say ) and choosing between different terms or arrangements even within the same credit type . |
| 16 | After training sessions , keep any literature or handouts together with the forms so that you build up your own references to guide you . |
| 17 | It is important for the prosecution case to try to identify the tyre by taking the tyre or batch number which will usually be something like 824927 E , on the tyre wall in letters and figures about I cm high — in about a quarter of all checks the number is nonexistent or illegible and the police officer should try to remember other forms of identification such as marks or scratches etc. on the tyre . |
| 18 | Lord Simon showed what a difficult concept this is when he reviewed various possible definitions of " quasi-arbitrator " in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 at 824 G. He said that it could mean ( 1 ) a third party whose duty it is , in deciding a question , to " hold the scales fairly " and who is " likely to be shot at by both sides " this was formulated three different ways ; or ( 2 ) " an arbitrator at common law in contradistinction from one under the Arbitration Act 1950 " [ an obscure conceptpresumably only for oral arbitration agreements or agreements specifically excluding the operation of the Act ] ; or ( 3 ) " a person who is not an arbitrator under the Arbitration Act 1950 but nevertheless acts in a judicial capacity or character or fulfills a judicial function . " |
| 19 | Thus an ‘ owl ’ will often pursue his hobbies or interests late into the night so that his preferred life-style will accentuate the natural tendency of his clock . |
| 20 | ( a ) conducted in a lawful and orderly manner such that no nuisance or annoyance is caused to the University or others lawfully on the University 's premises and that the University 's name or standing is not brought into disrepute . |
| 21 | This is a natural condition before menarche , and it re-occurs after menopause , during pregnancy as well as after abortion or birth ( post-partum amenorrhoea ) that lasts for some months even if the women does not breastfeed or nurses only for a short period . |
| 22 | According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . " |
| 23 | A female that pairs monogamously with a male will get some help from him with rearing the chicks . |
| 24 | tt right , yeah , incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products , income elasticities what 's the income elasticity of manufactured goods ? |
| 25 | The Mountain View , California-based Unicode Consortium has merged its multi-lingual encoding standard with the recently approved ISO 10646 , developed by the International Standards Organisation : the idea is that computers all over the world should agree on which number stands for which character so they will be able to communicate other in any language . |
| 26 | Or drive south from Ramsey to Douglas on a road that snakes upwards into the collar of cloud that rests on the shoulders of Snaefell , the highest mountain on Man . |
| 27 | Pubic hairs are further apart than hairs elsewhere on the body and , in particular , than the hairs of the head . |
| 28 | And why do Whites have higher rates than Blacks especially among the young in the darker areas ? |
| 29 | It 's a film that appeals more to the intellect than to the gut — definitely a Kafka high . |
| 30 | Er , open your binder , any ring binder system has the basic functional disadvantage that pages close to the bottom of the rings , are very difficult to write on . |