Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage .
2 The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain .
3 The ‘ I ’ , he would have argued , only means something in relation to all the other words that it is usually compared with — in this case the personal pronouns like ‘ you ’ , ‘ she ’ or ‘ it ’ .
4 There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps .
5 What is the point of sending the article to learned referees if it is subsequently going to be altered without warning ?
6 The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin .
7 In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately .
8 I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans .
9 I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly .
10 The richest source of MUFAs is olive oil — there is a low incidence of coronary heart disease in Mediterranean countries where it 's widely used .
11 The support available from IDB represents a carefully structured package which provides assistance in those areas where it is most needed .
12 A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage .
13 It is not responsive to the local communities and it is totally lacking in democracy .
14 Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world .
15 The rest of the myth concerns Psyche 's trials until she is eventually reunited with Eros on Mount Olympus .
16 And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots .
17 Heat the butter and oil in a pan , add the steak and fry on both sides for about 5 minutes until it is well browned .
18 I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me !
19 Phthirus pubis is unable to survive away from the human host for more than 24 hours and it is readily killed by temperatures over 50°C .
20 I 've written her notes and notes and notes and she 's never answered one of them .
21 But his work has been destroyed so many times in the rads that he 's now giving up .
22 Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging .
23 To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals .
24 and he 's sitting outside and he goes , he 's mum goes well he 's been out there two weeks and he 's still stood there in the same spot and he 's going like that
25 Made in larger quantities pesto can be preserved in jars if it is tightly packed ( no air pockets should remain ) and covered with a layer of olive oil .
26 ‘ His leg 's broken in two places and he 's badly bruised , but he 'll be all right .
27 The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
28 After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
29 The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue .
30 The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool .
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