Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was classified as high security , and there were more guards than engineers working in the compound . |
| 2 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 3 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 4 | I stopped and listened , straining my ears for any sound above the crashing of the soldiers or the muttered curses as men slipped on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 5 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 7 | Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract . |
| 8 | This is useful for both parties as problems experienced by returners can be anticipated and dealt with for the benefit of new course members . |
| 9 | Moreover , the war intensified factional disputes as socialists divided between ‘ defencists ’ who were prepared to support the war effort and ‘ internationalists ’ , among whom Lenin was most uncompromising , who condemned it . |
| 10 | I ca n't see that children 's perception of women is going to change until there are as many dads as mums waiting in the rain and , frankly , I think hell is likely to freeze over first . |
| 11 | Several studies have characterised the young social drug user as an adolescent who is alienated from school and who is more involved with peer group activities than activities centred around the home . |
| 12 | The cumulative value of transactions covered by a set of standard terms may be greatly in excess of the value of any individual conveyancing transaction and , although it may be possible to amend the terms for future transactions if problems emerge in use , once the terms have been incorporated into a particular contract , unlike a pleading , there is no chance to amend them for the purposes of that contract . |
| 13 | Sunday Life has learned that detectives had received a number of complaints against the businessmen after cheques bounced at banks . |
| 14 | The presence of ants allows Bixa orellana ( Bixaceae ) , a dye plant with nectaries on the nodes and pedicels , to mature twice as many seeds as antless individuals , while Aphelandra scabra ( A. deppeana , Acanthaceae ) with nectaries on the bracts matures nine times as many fruits as plants deprived of their ants . |
| 15 | The concept of a dividing line in the H-R diagram was proposed to describe the apparently abrupt disappearance of coronae as stars evolve towards the giant branch at early K spectral type . |
| 16 | Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods . |
| 17 | Thus the yield is 11.75 p.c. before Pep charges which should not reduce the income received below 10.25 p.c. per annum — while retaining the possibility of higher returns if dividends paid by the underlying stocks rise . |
| 18 | Well , there could still be a case for investment in such an enterprise if it were shown that the lack of profitability was the result of higher costs than competitors stemming from locational disadvantages . |
| 19 | By ‘ brainstorming ’ , groups can generate far more and better ideas than individuals working on their own . |
| 20 | The Greens may have acted as catalysts in the green revolution , and their success in the Euro-election undoubtedly awoke the mainstream parties to the extent of the stirrings in the electoral loam , but they no more held a patent on green ideas than feminists did on equal rights for women . |
| 21 | It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics . |
| 22 | ‘ We lost some very promising dogs because owners asked for them back after a fortnight , ’ explained the spokesman . |
| 23 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 24 | At an airforce base in Cebu , central Philippines , government troops delayed an assault on 200 rebels as negotiators led by Cardinal Ricardo Vibal tried to resolve the situation . |
| 25 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 26 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 27 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 28 | It shows the fall in average costs as numbers increase by one additional individual . |
| 29 | The programme will recreate the traditional Carol Service train , which the Railway has run for over 20 years as worshippers travel by steam train from Keighley to Oxenhope , singing carols at each of the Railway 's six award-winning stations . |
| 30 | McCluskey , a summer recruit from Portadown , scored two tries as Instonians came from behind for a comfortable win . |