Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A positive view of the potential of the scheme in this is related to positive views about virtually all of the other issues raised in the questionnaire and vice versa . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 3 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 4 | The agency , the Fund for Servicing the Foreign Debt ( FOZZ ) , used intermediaries to channel money held by Polish companies abroad to merchant banks and companies which bought up Poland 's debts for as little as 20 cents for every US$1 owed , contrary to an agreement between Poland and its bankers . |
| 5 | For a pair of tie bands you will need approximately 40cm ( 16in ) of outer fabric and lining , ( use the wastage between pattern repeats for both outer fabric and lining where possible ) ; pelmet buckram 45cm ( 18in ) wide to the length of the band ; approximately 30cm ( 12in ) bump to soften the buckram ; two tie-back hooks and two small rings . |
| 6 | This greatly simplifies what can be a fiddly and time-consuming process , and ( as is frequently claimed to justify many forms of automation ) frees human personnel for more interesting and productive work . |
| 7 | Many thousands have been sold through hairdressers for about seven pounds . |
| 8 | Yet real materials , made up from atoms , have cohesive forces which have a finite range which may extend far beyond nearest neighbours , and , as we pointed out earlier , for polymers may extend along the chains for very large distances . |
| 9 | Erm , let me just erm of the , of the change , the five million change it 's , it 's in accounts for over four and there is small odds and ends changes otherwise . |
| 10 | Cook the vegetables for about 5 minutes , then add the garlic , ginger and stock . |
| 11 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 12 | Most of the highland-type rocks , even those found on the maria , have ages between about 3800 Ma and 4300 Ma , which suggests that a lunar-wide heating took place a little over 4300 Ma ago resetting the radiometric ‘ clocks ’ . |
| 13 | He first translates the complex gill and siphon withdrawal behaviour of the intact organism into a circuit which habituates as a result of interactions between just two cells . |
| 14 | It is accepted that there may be interactions between supposedly distinct stimuli when they are presented simultaneously . |
| 15 | informal investigations for less serious cases ; |
| 16 | Well , they have been afraid of the Russians for so long that they have learned to live with it . |
| 17 | Being book packagers by tradition also means that they immediately grasp the concept of exacting the maximum possible payback from their investments through as many diverse exploitations as possible of their information assets . |
| 18 | Yet the prohibition of cock-fighting and animal-baiting was only politically possible because of the tacit consent of the landed élite , who had already largely desert ed these activities for more exclusive and civilized ones . |
| 19 | After pleasing the crowds for nearly 40 years , Neil Coles is still turning on the style for the PGA European Seniors ' Tour . |
| 20 | Once you 're infected the virus may destroy your natural defences for over 10 years without you realising . |
| 21 | In the contests for around 52,000 seats on over 2,300 local councils , Solidarity-backed Citizens ' Committees won over 41 per cent of the seats nationwide and performed strongly in the main cities , making a virtually clean sweep in Gdansk , Krakow and Wroclaw and taking nearly 90 per cent in Warsaw , the capital . |
| 22 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 23 | So , the first little bit of exercise we 're gon na do is , I 'm gon na ask you to , just work in pairs for about five minutes . |
| 24 | explore and use their skills through mathematically rich activities . |
| 25 | CRAY OUTLINES ITS PLANS FOR MASSIVELY PARALLEL ALPHA MACHINES |
| 26 | Now , with a lease that requires all new building to be completed by the year 2000 , and the crash of the property market making nonsense of plans for yet more offices , the developers stand to lose over £170 million . |
| 27 | The developmental role which is implied is a notion of individualised service planning — an approach which is exemplified in the process of negotiating individual programme plans for mentally handicapped clients . |
| 28 | General Noriega went on television to say he had been aware of the rebels ' plans for about three weeks . |
| 29 | Gorbachev 's plans for more radical nuclear weapons cuts were generally received with caution , however , by Western leaders , some of whom reportedly questioned the feasibility of the proposals in the face of the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Responding to the offer at a joint press conference with Major on July 17 , Gorbachev said that " the ice has started moving " and , in an oblique reference to plans for more regular meetings between Soviet and G-7 officials , claimed that " this is now a seven plus one " . |