Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [coord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it was used to contain cremations or as accessory vessels in inhumation graves ; it is the funerary pottery that has attracted the most attention . |
| 2 | The whole circuit board has to be removed to install batteries and for obvious reasons this should never done in the rain or near wind-blown sea spray . |
| 3 | British agents of government , whose primary responsibility was the collection of revenue , were given judicial duties , and the Board of Kandyan Commissioners functioned much as the Supreme Court in the Low Country , with the power to hear appeals and with original jurisdiction over serious criminal offences . |
| 4 | Members of the Irish Dail feel pressure , they say , to look after constituents , because their support may slip away not only to rival parties but to other members of their own . |
| 5 | Such friction could arise from personality clash , from communication breakdown , from ineffective delivery , from customer resistance to price changes or from competitive pressure . |
| 6 | In any case , as NIN ( 26 January 1986 ) pointed out , many enterprises that built factories in other areas in order to supply materials or for other reasons have had these factories taken away from them , often through their conversion into independent basic ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ . |
| 7 | At that time Thessaly , like Boiotia and Sparta-Messenia , had an abundance of agricultural land , plenty of horses and few towns , that is , little opportunity for peasants to exchange grumbles and for subversive foreign notions to penetrate . |
| 8 | Some of these skills are essentially verbal : the ability to articulate one 's need , to understand expositions of the subject-matter in written or spoken form , to make notes and in due course write reports , essays and synopses , and so on . |