Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has been replaced by Friesians for milk and is now bred more for beef . |
| 2 | It also runs practical residential courses on the environment for schools and is constantly consulted for advice and information by industry and individuals . |
| 3 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 4 | He played only 95 full games for Arsenal and is now peddling the last of his talent at Exeter , where he 's rumoured to have fallen out with manager Alan Ball . |
| 5 | There are important biochemical differences in the metabolism of different muscles ; in Locusta flight-muscle , for example , lactic dehydrogenase is virtually absent and lactic acid is not an end-product of glycolysis , whereas in the leg-muscle lactic acid accumulates after exertion and is slowly removed by oxidation and conversion to glycogen . |
| 6 | Netball star Liz Millican from Hartlepool has played for England and is now aiming for a trip to the World Junior Games in Australia . |
| 7 | Difficulties of setting up a system of rewards that is directly linked to performance appraisal and the achievement of objectives . |
| 8 | But the council has had a change of heart and is now looking at ways of funding the event . |
| 9 | The picture painted is gloomy , but there is a very effective method of agriculture that is slowly gaining credence amongst farmers , government and consumers alike . |
| 10 | Crystallization is a process involving the orderly arrangement of chains and is consequently associated with a large negative entropy of activation . |
| 11 | Dr Barham is a polymer scientist in the Department of Physics but is fast becoming more famous for his public lecture on The Physics of a Black Forest Gateau . |
| 12 | Experience over the last ten years ( 1963–73 ) has convinced the staff of this Polytechnic of the need for a more flexible type of course than is commonly offered to students . |
| 13 | The Workbook is 96 pages of text that is thematically related , unit by unit , to the Student 's Book . |
| 14 | NC protein is encoded by the 3' region of gag and is well conserved among retroviruses ( 2–3 ) . |
| 15 | This is actually the simplest form of meditation and is best suited to the beginner . |
| 16 | It is important to note that sexual violence , including rape , has a wider range of forms than is typically reported upon in the press or recognised as a crime . |
| 17 | A TALENTED teenager gets a kick out of football but is also hitting a high note as a singer . |
| 18 | For this kind of caring is often seen as the dignified proper response to long years of partnership and is realistically faced as a price that can be gladly paid for past happiness . |
| 19 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 20 | In fact , any crime rate , whether produced by the police , victim study , self-report study or whatever , will depend on a classification of crime that is socially produced . |
| 21 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |
| 22 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 23 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 24 | ‘ … shit-scared because he 's about to be blasted into particles even smaller and more radioactive than Ronald Reagan 's brain , goes to the loo ; by sheer coincidence the crap he does solidifies in the intense cold of outer space and the pursuing spaceship runs into it at about half the speed of light and is totally destroyed . |
| 25 | Now they guard the body , which is motionless in a lake of blood that is rapidly drying , drunk by the thirsty , insatiable soil . |
| 26 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 27 | Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author . |
| 28 | He is the patron saint of England and is always shown as the dragon killer . |
| 29 | In addition , the president is constitutionally responsible for the making of treaties and the appointment of ambassadors and is effectively put in charge of foreign policy . |
| 30 | The hotel is centrally situated in the town near to the restaurants and entertainment of Hilversum and is well recommended for its grade . |