Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All have songs ranging from fast to slow , and also songs that incorporate both ends of this range .
2 All have songs ranging from fast to slow , and also songs that incorporate both ends of this range .
3 The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist .
4 Phrase structure rules would implicitly have been adopted , legitimating certain combinations that have successfully occurred , as well as others that had not yet occurred but might very well have , and with similar success , had the choice of words and message had to be different .
5 Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper .
6 The local community-based organizations that have since formed have been more basic in their opposition to any mining and have taken political organization — through lobbying , petitions , demonstrations and public meetings — as their mode of operation .
7 The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done
8 By marrying Anne , Tim will cement the strong ties that have always existed between the armed forces and royalty .
9 ‘ I go to high street shops that do high fashion looks at low prices , Ms Selfridge in Belfast Oxford Street are good . ’
10 Other cars that try hard to embrace traditional concepts of luxury use leather and wood as add-on decoration ; the Bentley uses them as raw materials .
11 The first Rolls-Royce went on sale in Hungary recently , joining the many Mercedes and BMW cars that have recently flooded the country , particularly in 1989 .
12 management services and branches and what systems have been reduced and the branches that have actually kept the ones they 're on to .
13 In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations .
14 Otherwise , the figures on present-day variations strongly suggest that since then it is nasal environments that have subsequently led the change , closely followed by fricative and voiced stop environments .
15 Another , less direct , observation which suggests that song serves to stimulate females is that males in polygamous species of North American wren have more complex songs than have closely related monogamous species .
16 When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ .
17 As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue .
18 That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out .
19 At the end of a shaft of light streaming down an alley which led to the river , a scorpion dozed on a broken brick , though at Huy 's approach the little brown statue bristled , pincers and sting instantly alert .
20 In their interactions with the media , political actors pursue their own goals and do frequently dominate media content .
21 It is the trace of a moving point ; a record of its passing , to guide and ease subsequent trips and become firmly established with use .
22 It does , however , attempt to summarise some of the practical considerations and experience already gained in order to assist members of MAS undertaking work in similar areas .
23 You will find that since Mr Madison 's British visitors left Washington , we have added a number of attractions and have greatly improved the roads .
24 On the other hand , it is desirable that you express solidarity , give way to other speakers and tolerate long silences if they occur .
25 Observers have simply failed to remark the scientific nature of much of the thinking of so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples and have perhaps overstated the ‘ scientific ’ nature of thinking in their own societies .
26 The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement .
27 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
28 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
29 Several Q.T 's have joined us over the months and have greatly enjoyed getting to know the students and working with them .
30 Landowners have bought old farms for use as holiday homes and have then claimed planning permission to house local workers , provide employment and manage the land .
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