Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 2 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 3 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 4 | He was one of the men who knew that the Surveyor of the Queen 's Pictures , Sir Anthony Blunt , had been recruited by the Russians long before he confessed in 1964 . |
| 5 | A group of grinning Koreans from Kazakhstan craned their necks skywards as she spun like a top . |
| 6 | This is easiest to do using the /Data , Fill command but you can enter the values manually if you want to . |
| 7 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |
| 8 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 9 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 10 | Jezrael gripped his fingers fiercely and he slid along the padded bench until he was beside her and she wept into the haven of his shoulder . |
| 11 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 12 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |
| 13 | If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces . |
| 14 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 15 | At the apex of the jaw the ventralmost tooth may be superficial , separating , the infradental papillae so that it appears to be an apical papilla ; in other specimens the infradental papillae lie closer together ; they are followed on each side by two block-like oral papillae . |
| 16 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 17 | ‘ Pollensa ? ’ she croaked , punching out her floor and raising her eyes skywards as everyone did as the lift doors slid shut . |
| 18 | She 'd just box a few ears , knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries , and chase them off . |
| 19 | reverse the roles so that you start with Bill 's part and the language helper says John 's part . |
| 20 | Finally , he remained in hospital months longer than he needed to . |
| 21 | And the ones that did are completely bewildered at the siege of journalists outside and everything has to be explained to them in words of one syllable . |
| 22 | In fact , ‘ have a nice day ’ was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers ' ears just as they walked off the premises , instead of the terminal ‘ bye ’ or ‘ see yah ’ , so they 'd come back . |
| 23 | Bureaucracy distorts the tasks of social organizations more than it does in management , where ‘ the accumulation of bureaucratic relations does not necessarily decrease efficiency ’ . |
| 24 | And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists . |
| 25 | But Ben Macdhui has been known to give walkers more than they bargained for on several occasions . |
| 26 | Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself . |
| 27 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | Partners in the south coast firm of Hook Harris & Co , which hit the headlines two months ago when it entered into an individual voluntary arrangement with its creditors , have bought the two main practices from the joint supervisors of the IVA . |
| 29 | Kanchelskis made that giant leap 18 months ago when he arrived from Donetsk . |
| 30 | Widow Mary Todd , 64 , met Bill Raisbeck six months ago when she moved into the same sheltered housing scheme at Thornaby , Cleveland . |