Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
| 2 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 3 | One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina . |
| 4 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 5 | It backs onto a couple of euphemisms , the Civic Amenity Site and the abattoir , and a valuable pond which attracted migrating birds has regularly dried up in the summer . |
| 6 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 7 | Foreign direct investment by manufacturers has also grown rapidly over the past decade as firms chased lower costs , moved closer to their markets and tried to dodge protectionist barriers . |
| 8 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 9 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 10 | The words kept on tumbling out of her and she could n't seem to stop them . |
| 11 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 12 | Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other . |
| 13 | In addition , these styles do not fit well with walnut dining room tables and candlelit evenings . |
| 14 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |
| 15 | Fast cars do n't pull away from you if you handle them badly . |
| 16 | ‘ People and cars do n't fall out of the sky , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 17 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 18 | Plasma vitamin C concentrations did not change significantly with treatment in either group . |
| 19 | Serum gastrin concentrations did not correlate well with changes in the endocrine cell density . |
| 20 | The real differences between the mergers of the 1980s and previous waves do not lie either in the hostility of the bids or the nature of the financing . |
| 21 | After meeting the surgeons , he said they had agreed they could cope if medical emergencies did not spill over to their beds . |
| 22 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
| 23 | Giscard claimed journalists did not distinguish sufficiently between fact and opinion ; ‘ shut up Elkabbach ’ , Marchais told a journalist portrayed as a Giscardian , who was questioning him closely ; on 10 May 1981 , when Mitterrand ( finally ) won the presidential election , the crowd gathered in the revolutionary holy of holies , place de la Bastille , yelled abuse at Elkabbach . |
| 24 | It is a known and established fact that political parties do not pick up in the polls once an election is under way . |
| 25 | We need not consider at any length the methods used for measuring flow parameters other than the velocity , since these methods do not differ significantly from those used in other branches of physics . |
| 26 | But as Tivey ( 1973 : 1960–200 ) argues , political and economic considerations do not impinge occasionally on nationalized industries but are continuous and pervasive features . |
| 27 | Under conditions of binocular vision the two eyes do not contribute equally to providing a stable binocular percept . |
| 28 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 29 | Javal [ 1879 ] showed that the eyes do not scan smoothly across the lines of print , but instead make a series of discrete fixations with rapid movements ( known as saccades ) in between . |
| 30 | Second , while adults who have been blind all their lives report no visual dreams , and have no measurable rapid eye movements using EOG measures , they do have periods of low-voltage EEC with reduced muscle tone , consistent with REM sleep , " and if mechanical sensors are used to assess eye movement , it appears that their eyes do indeed wiggle about during these sleep phases . " |