Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs .
2 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
3 But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so
4 In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way .
5 For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed .
6 For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen .
7 One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe .
8 In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years !
9 As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels .
10 When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces .
11 In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair .
12 You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes .
13 Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids .
14 But the USR statistics also list ‘ other ’ and ‘ general ’ courses , and combinations which cut across the main course groupings .
15 The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s .
16 The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time .
17 We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values .
18 Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar .
19 Experience tells us that there are organizations which fall between the profit-oriented and the Type B non-profit .
20 Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics .
21 Interests in the North Side , then , do not neatly fit into neighbourhood units which dovetail into the geographic space of the area .
22 In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today .
23 A socialist third force on the other hand proved impossible because , to widespread surprise , it was Christian Democratic parties which emerged as the predominant political force in Western Europe after 1945 .
24 All the best rocking horses have heads which look to the left or right , and this angling is well worth the small extra trouble since it does give the finished horse a little more ‘ life ’ .
25 Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years .
26 Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities .
27 The stewards sent a shock wave through leading teams by admitting that the F1 Technical Delegate had found every team except Lola were using cars which conflicted with the technical regulations particularly in relation to active suspension and traction control .
28 Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data .
29 The football stadiums , the Bank Holiday , the Co-ops which boomed from the 1880s , the New Unionism and the socialist revival , the music hall , the seaside excursion , even the fish-and-chip shop , should all be added to this already impressive list of cultural and material innovations in this period .
30 She closed her eyes , taking an unsteady breath as she tried desperately not to recall the deeply tanned torso , the slim hips and the taut , firmly muscled thighs which lay beneath the dark Savile Row suit he was wearing with such ease and assurance .
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