Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | January was the 28th consecutive month in which bankruptcy cases involving debts equivalent to £58,400 or more rose above year-ago levels . |
| 2 | First , each mare is encircled , or nearly encircled by tall mountain ranges that could be the remnants of the rim of a large impact basin or the most prominent rim of a multi-ringed basin . |
| 3 | The principal precursors of acid precipitation are the anthropogenic and natural emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen which are subsequently catalytically or photochemically oxidized to sulphuric acid ( H 2 SO 4 ) and nitric acid ( HNO 3 ) , respectively , in the atmosphere ( figure 4.10 ) . |
| 4 | The finish is up to you , whether you clock is in kit form or assembled and polished , you can choose from traditional polished finishes and colours , or lacquer finish in black or white , or even limed in pastel colours . |
| 5 | In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge . |
| 6 | We then sequenced parasite DNA from nine Gambian isolates ( Fig. 2 , legend ) : in each , the ls6 epitope was identical to the published sequence , indicating that it is largely or completely conserved in this population . |
| 7 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 8 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 9 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 10 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 11 | Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 . |
| 12 | In nine of these cases it was the added development of gastrointestional symptoms that finally led to small bowel biopsy and the diagnosis of coeliac disease . |
| 13 | Nearly two-thirds of the drawings are English , mainly Victorian , and Pre-Raphaelite , including a large tempera and oil ‘ Saint Barbara ’ by Burne-Jones that once belonged to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , a Ruskin watercolour of the sun-drenched cathedral of Sens , and a bellowing stag by Landseer , with earlier works by Romney , Rowlandson , Varley and Cotman . |
| 14 | But not when you put it into context with the vast sums of money spent supporting privatization , or the salaries of over privileged , so called captains of industries , industries that once belonged to this nation . |
| 15 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 16 | The family wanted a three inch carving of the bear on the headstone , to symbolise the only thing that ever belonged to tragic Sophie , but the church has said no . |
| 17 | That was also — I think it must have been a very heavy string net ; and that also had down each side , very long red or blue tassels . |
| 18 | Deletion of a home record may mean that , even though the home position is now free , a number of other records that originally randomized to that address are held as synonyms . |
| 19 | Waste Management had a facility in Philadelphia that originally took in recyclable materials for free . |
| 20 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 21 | Of medium height and strong build , Hobhouse ( despite his hay fever ) was much given to outdoor activities , undertaking long expeditions on his bicycle and riding to hounds with a recklessness that sometimes resulted in personal injury . |
| 22 | But behind it all is Scott , who is self-appointed and unsalaried producer , director and spokesman for an enterprise that never occured to British sport itself . |
| 23 | He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil . |
| 24 | The people of Scotland considered these eight options and duly replied with ninety percent of the rep replies including Tory councillors , and Tor Tor and some Tory , Tory-run councils , totally rejecting any form of water privatization in Scotland . |
| 25 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 26 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 27 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 28 | His mother obviously adored him and merely said with unconvincing sincerity , ‘ Now , Pino , mind what I say . ’ |
| 29 | They believed , by contrast , that all the parts of the embryo were preformed from the very beginning and merely grew during embryonic development and so gradually became visible . |
| 30 | Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern . |