Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [verb] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The function of the areas is to achieve more or less complete coverage of popular and standards works for their zone .
2 At the same time the child with special needs is challenged intellectually and socially .
3 It requires money to travel , and while in the '50s working class people could reach the hills with sufficient determination , the increasing fashionability of outdoor sports is excluding more and more who have less and less .
4 Each of the extracts is introduced briefly and related and cross-referenced to earlier section(s) of the book .
5 Rubbish is discarded ; that from boats is washed ashore and there is greater disturbance of the animal life .
6 The rate of increase of sheep numbers in Powys in recent years is accelerating slowly but the rate of increase in cattle numbers in Cantal is decelerating .
7 The importance of reading and writing skills in English is clearly increasing for all four companies whereby the position of English as the ‘ Latin ’ of European business for written communications is becoming more and more consolidated .
8 Figure 4.1 : Views of Quaternary change ( after Goudie , 1977 ) The classic sequence of Pleistocene sea levels is shown above and sea level curves compiled by various authors for the Holocene are indicated below .
9 An information sheet for patients is printed overleaf and a possible list of instructions to be given to patients using 100 or 150ml stock bottles is included .
10 As with other addictions , compulsive gambling and risk taking are seen when the sufferer is compelled to return despite repeated and increasing negative consequences and when the processes is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood .
11 This is paradoxical because physical illness is taken seriously and given adequate treatment , and mental illness with mainly mental symptoms is taken seriously and treated ( if not always very effectively or humanely ) .
12 The demand for LNG in the Pacific Rim markets is growing strongly and industry commentators predict that by 1999 , demand will exceed planned supply capacity .
13 A publication of village life compiled by a group of volunteers is issued quarterly and is eagerly looked forward to .
14 It is the phenomenon whereby the tripartite relationship between the language system , the encoder 's subjectivity and various contextual factors is foregrounded grammatically or lexically .
15 The new format of the double morning services is working well and everyone has been very co-operative .
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