Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although her poetry often speaks of ill health and many times looks forward to the poet 's early death , she died of measles , a sudden illness which she was too weak to withstand . |
| 2 | The value of winter green manures lies partly in the covering they provide to the soil during the wet months of the year . |
| 3 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 4 | As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer . |
| 5 | It must follow , therefore , that the way man keeps animals contributes significantly to the environment and has a consequential effect on wild flora and fauna . |
| 6 | The principle of different spatial patterning accounting for the differences in animals applies right across the vertebrates . |
| 7 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 8 | Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans speaks frankly about the year ahead . |
| 9 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 10 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 11 | The implementation of such policies depends critically on the refereeing of research proposals and the operation of grant-awarding committees . |
| 12 | The understanding of the dynamics of turbulence in shear flows depends primarily on the measurement and interpretation of the parameters introduced in Chapter 19 . |
| 13 | Certainly , in St Ann 's , the condition of the houses bears immediately on the lives of the people . |
| 14 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |
| 15 | The primary key is " part number " , hence the number of tuples corresponds directly to the number of different parts in the assembly ( and not the total number of all parts ) . |
| 16 | Their recommendation that capital grants are withdrawn from extended Section 43 areas depends heavily on the conviction of NP and LA Committees ( with often very strong agricultural representation ) to include all the relevant moor and heath in the first place . |
| 17 | The technique is relatively quick for coarse sediments and may also be relevant for silt sized particles , although time for completion of analyses increases greatly within the silt size range . |
| 18 | John Hogan , chief operating officer , said : ‘ We have realised full value for the assets and the successful completion of the transactions reflects admirably on the skills of our staff in all departments . |
| 19 | The initiative in budgetary matters rests mainly with the president , but , once he has submitted his proposals , they can not become law until they have obtained Congressional approval . |
| 20 | And the shadow of his bones tosses darkly on the air . |
| 21 | The willingness to bend the rules to authorize a major invasion of civil liberties contrasts sharply with the Spycatcher case . |
| 22 | The Paul who receives his mission to the Gentiles does so in a trance in the temple at Jerusalem ( Acts 22:17ff ) . |
| 23 | ‘ And what if Barbs comes home in the middle of it ? ’ asked Camille . |
| 24 | The difference between the two institutions resides precisely in the fact that currency realignment is possible in one case , but not in the other . |
| 25 | VERTUS : An accumulation of weathered deposits of loess and colluvial calcareous clayey-silt and iron-bearing flinty pebbles radiates outwards from the village , two particularly large legs of which follow the Côte north and south . |
| 26 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |
| 27 | The attraction of such films lies apparently in the offer of illicit sexual pleasure to men whose sexual confidence is at such a low ebb as to make them unlikely or unable to resist . |
| 28 | The historic importance of these routeways owes much to the fact that they connect the contrasting environments of Alpine , Mediterranean and continental Europe . |
| 29 | If the design of the works is evolving as construction proceeds , and the contract is let on a cost reimbursable basis , responsibility for controlling costs lies principally with the client or with the client 's representatives . |
| 30 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |