Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There is no way of telling how many of the episodes described are elaborations produced to impress , or how far they are accurate descriptions of action sequences on which both teachers and pupils would agree .
2 This was well correlated with the values obtained from those with BrdUrd labelling in the 10 rats in whom both methods were used ( r=0.72 , p=0.001 ) .
3 Sams , 51 , of Barrel Hill Road , Sutton on Trent , Notts , admits kidnapping Miss Slater in January , 1992 , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employers , Shipways Estate Agents , of Birmingham .
4 Sams , 51 , of Barrel Hill Road , Sutton-on-Trent , Nottinghamshire , has admitted kidnapping Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a £175,000 ransom with menaces from her then employers .
5 On one famous occasion an aspiring pro , later to play in the Ryder Cup , was so incensed by the antics of his pro-am partners that he left the course in mid-round .
6 Examples made famous by the exploits of their chiefly owners acquired names of their own and passed down the generations as heirlooms .
7 She wore no make-up and no rings on her freckly hands .
8 grasp the forms and effects of struggle … the multitude of different efforts by which both individuals and groups of individuals struggle to maintain and expand their material conditions of life .
9 There are various other ways in which both magistrates and judges may contribute , either directly or indirectly , to the prison numbers crisis — for example , by imposing a fine without taking sufficient account of a defendant 's ability to pay , with the result that imprisonment is imposed for default ( see Moxon , 1993 ) ; or by imposing a suspended sentence in place of a fine or probation with the result that , in the event of a further offence , imprisonment is more likely to be imposed than might otherwise have been the case .
10 Many schools and LEAs are exploring ways in which both teachers and children can be supported without withdrawing children from ordinary classes .
11 There was no correlation between peak , after sucrose , breath hydrogen excretion and percentage SeHCAT retention in the 12 patients in whom both studies were performed ( r=-0.02 , p=NS ; Fig 4 ) .
12 These are clear varnishes to which either dyestuffs or transparent pigments , or both , have been added .
13 Five minutes later we were sailing through rafts of them only feet from the boat .
14 Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men .
15 And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches .
16 Probably when Faye had one of those turns of hers all kinds of awful things happening , and then Roberta , coping : Darling Faye , it is all right , do n't Faye , please Faye , relax darling …
17 But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously .
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