Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not fit , however , with the reef limestones and it certainly does not fit with the other facies that show the same persistence . |
| 2 | This is not a criticism of the reporting organizations because it simply reflects our ignorance of how to measure the relationships . |
| 3 | Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home . |
| 4 | It 's becoming common in many local authority , private and voluntary sector Homes because it generally works well both for residents and staff . |
| 5 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 6 | Non-career golfing ladies still comprise a majority of lady members and it probably does not make much practical difference to them not to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday morning since they have access to the courses at all other times . |
| 7 | As with the differential vertical perspective cue , the horizontal perspective cue is a consequence of the perspective viewing of a surface from two spatially separate vantage points and it also varies with the absolute distance to the surface ( Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 8 | The book predates the 1986 Act and concentrates explicitly on management issues but it still contains much useful and relevant advice . |
| 9 | It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment , bars , restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers . |
| 10 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 11 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 12 | National Maritime Museum laments ‘ smash and grab ’ approach of private salvage operations but who else has the funds ? |
| 13 | For a start it reduces the volume of waste which goes into landfill sites and it also helps to make better use of the Earth 's natural resources . |
| 14 | It is a document about the Labour party 's policy attitudes and it rightly points out that more than half of Labour Members have either recently belonged to or still belong to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 15 | Waley 's book is mainly based on documentary sources and he wisely concentrates on the period after 1150 , when sources begin to be copious . |
| 16 | The company , which makes polythene bags and which also has a recycling programme , believes a plan by Germany will not help the rest of the EC or the environment at large . |
| 17 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 18 | I thought about Tom on more than one occasion because Tom for so many years was the voice of the royal wedding and erm this and that state affairs and things , state occasions and he only lives in Murrayfield , I mean |
| 19 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 20 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 21 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 22 | The height of style The unique design of this foldable resin highchair means that you can set it a seven different height positions and it also doubles up as a low chair with removable tray . |
| 23 | This means that in a sequence of HLH basic tones within an utterance , the pitch of a H tone , following after a L tone , will be lower than that of the preceding H tone , e.g. If you are not aware of this , you may think the language has more tone levels than it actually has . |
| 24 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |