Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 2 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 3 | They will exchange opinions , becoming united in their views or strongly opposed to each other . |
| 4 | The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not . |
| 5 | Many were wearing their Sunday best , the ladies in hats or newly pressed headscarves , the gents in overcoats and polished shoes . |
| 6 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 7 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 8 | Appropriate amounts of partially purified DNA binding domain peptides or nuclear extracts were incubated on ice with 0.1ng of end-labelled DNA fragment probes or freshly made ‘ prime cut ’ probes in buffer giving final concentrations of 10mM Tris.HCl pH8.0 , 1mM EDTA , 100mM NaCl , 1µg polydI.polydC , 0.1% NP40 and 50µg/ml BSA . |
| 9 | Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights . |
| 10 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 11 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 12 | Neither was there Wendy , a girl in my form ( it had been a school trip ) who had legs that never quit , long legs , the type rampant fell men dream of . |
| 13 | However , we recommend that you keep to the usual recommended calorie intakes for weight loss , and reap the additional advantages in ease and speed , rather than try to eat even fewer calories than usually recommended in a diet . |
| 14 | Sighing , she raised her head and stared once more into the mirror , into those dark eyes that rarely revealed what was in her soul . |
| 15 | She stared into his eyes , those steady grey eyes that so fascinated her . |
| 16 | She swallowed and wondered if she should pull her hand away , but as Jake continued to hold it against his cheek , watching her with eyes that suddenly threatened to swallow her , she was aware that all at once her hand had become paralysed . |
| 17 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 18 | The consumer must accept that , with organic systems , some fruits and vegetables will not look perfect and they will continue to be more expensive because organic farming is more labour intensive and the land usually produces lower yields than conventionally farmed land . |
| 19 | New methods of detecting the presence of organic compounds in fish suggest that pollutants may be killing them and other marine species in smaller concentrations than previously thought . |
| 20 | People should know exactly how to vote for animal rights in the election and that is for one of the parties that unanimously supported this Bill . |
| 21 | The project involves the re-analysis of existing data sets , using the new measure and testing for stronger relationships than originally found . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , much of what I have said about the writing of straightforward mystery stories applies just as much to inverted stories , the books that seemingly set out on an exactly opposite course . |
| 23 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 24 | More branches than ever joined in six hundred and seventy four in all and collections took place at more Tesco 's than ever , two hundred and twenty five . |
| 25 | We used the common field maple ( Acer campestre ) to replace a line of dead elms that formerly marked our boundary with the lane . |
| 26 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 27 | Five little words that only raised a whole pile of other questions . |
| 28 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 29 | She closed her eyes and , as she did so , valves that normally regulated memory burst open . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't be ridiculous , ’ he said , through lips that barely moved . |