Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 2 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 3 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 4 | China and Taiwan claimed to have ended the trade in rhino and tiger products earlier this year , but stockpiles have since been found in both countries . |
| 5 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 6 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity . |
| 8 | It has long been stated on these pages , that the relationship between GIR and average putts on GIR gives the best ( but not perfect ) indication of who is having problems with the putter . |
| 9 | An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma . |
| 10 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 11 | The principles underlying the poll tax had long been criticised by some sections of the party . |
| 12 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 13 | What 's more , she was on top of the Poll , and had obviously been supported by many men members . |
| 14 | A lengthy delay in the reporting of a birth increases the chance that the newborn child may die with no registration of either the birth or death ; the national birth and death rates will obviously be underestimated in such circumstances . |
| 15 | The House of Lords has stated that Liversidge need no longer haunt the law , and it can be confidently predicted that the more natural objective meaning will henceforth be ascribed to such words . |
| 16 | Presenting women 's viewpoint in development through interpersonal and mass media will explode several myths of patriarchal society , especially those assuming that ‘ male-defined reality ’ is the only reality , that political and economic systems created by men are superior and that women must merely be integrated into these systems . |
| 17 | 15 Army Group had given instructions [ KP 153 ] to Eighth Army on 7 May that surrender can only be accepted of those forces in contact with Eighth Army . |
| 18 | 1.1 Any order sent to the Seller by the Purchaser shall be accepted entirely at the discretion of the Seller , and , if so accepted , will only be accepted upon these conditions ( hereafter referred to as the " Conditions " ) and by means of the Seller 's standard order acknowledgement form . |
| 19 | Owing to its high alkaline requirement it should only be grown with those plants with the same preference . |
| 20 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 21 | More commonly , the plant can only be characterised by several coefficients which must all be optimized simultaneously . |
| 22 | Subscriptions fell steadily and expenditure fell even more sharply with the reduction of salaries and the suspension of propaganda , so that most local parties ended the war with a substantial profit ; but this concealed a real weakness , for expenditure could be revived by a single decision , while income could only be revived by many years of patient work . |
| 23 | 1.44 Reference was made earlier to cases in which delay arose because a defendant could not be served and the fact that a writ would not necessarily be renewed in these circumstances . |
| 24 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 25 | In terms of manpower all three types of decision are constantly being made at all levels of the nursing organisation . |
| 26 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 27 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 28 | According to the Marxist view , a class is a group of persons with a common relationship to the means of production and so is defined in all societies in economic terms . |
| 29 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |
| 30 | Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them . |