Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The words which do not appear in other lists fall into several important groups : signs relevant to deaf culture , signs which might be subject to borrowing by languages in contact , signs where compounding is likely to occur , number and colour terms . |
| 2 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 3 | One of the images that does is the one taken in Thailand of three fish-tails swung as if from gallows silhouetted against the sky . |
| 4 | In fact , th the New York Saint Andrews Society which exists to er I think to er , apart from to hold er meetings and er get togethers , also to assist er Scots in New York , at least that was one of it 's original er , principles , they have a er a splendid dinner with all these gentlemen in full kilts , kengroms , don'tski and do 's , the whole bangshoot , and and their their women folk can come and watch them from the gallery upstairs . |
| 5 | Detailed analysis both of the questionnaires and piloting is provided elsewhere ( Sheppard , 1990 ; 1991 ) . |
| 6 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 7 | He will know that the largest increase in waiting lists as published is in respect of the new service and facility that have been provided in Forth Valley . |
| 8 | It can take large numbers of rabbits that live above the ground in dense woodland and it can do that same job in wooded areas where ferreting is not allowed because of other interests . |
| 9 | In cooler areas where ripening is a problem — such as Germany or Burgundy in France — a little extra sugar may be added to bump up the alcohol . |
| 10 | The adults occur on mucosal surfaces of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts and feeding is generally by the ingestion of plugs of mucosa . |
| 11 | Their role as ‘ wise ones ’ , instructors and initiates is well documented , and their totem , the Hooded Cobra , often depicted in anthropomorphic form , has played a leading role not only in Hindu , but in Buddhist art throughout India , Sri Lanka , Java , China and Japan . |
| 12 | None of this is to suggest that the relationship between mercantile concerns and lawmaking is linear . |
| 13 | Environmentalists believe that the mere designation of areas as greenspaces is insufficient . |
| 14 | The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position . |
| 15 | Sometimes these are disabled birds and summering is doubtfully of annual occurrence . |
| 16 | Property such as machinery , buildings and produce is communally owned . |
| 17 | Anthony came through the corridors and say is Elizabeth there and was on |
| 18 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 19 | Plenty of other modern animals make their living in conditions where seeing is difficult or impossible . |
| 20 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 21 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 22 | Clay minerals such as illite and smectite , which are readily altered in the zone of active leaching towards the top of a profile , may be relatively stable at lower levels where leaching is less intense . |
| 23 | These methods allow plants to spread in marginal regions where seeding is uncertain . |
| 24 | After all , we are the new champs and talking is what we do best , next to playing cricket ! |
| 25 | But at the level of experience , essentially the foothills of prayer are a matter of modifying our consciousness in certain ways and breathing is a way of purifying the affections . |
| 26 | Shooting rabbits while ferreting is a specialist business . |
| 27 | The whole structure which the Ministry controls and administers is as closely integrated as that of modern warships and high-performance aircraft . |
| 28 | Now to sell that over the phone when you have n't got the brochures and to do is a difficult side of it . |
| 29 | These new arrangements , known as Grant Related Inservice Training ( GRIST ) , will change the face of inservice training for all teachers but time is needed to assess their impact on training opportunities and teacher effectiveness ( see Mittler , 1986 , for an interim account of the implications of the proposed changes ) . |
| 30 | Although the Advertising Standards Authority recommends that advertisements should carry a note stating that prices are subject to change , the only time advertisers have to stick to prices as published is when the product is a special offer . |