Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the groups of invertebrates worst affected were those that prey on others , the grazers on plants such as algae , and the so-called detritus collectors . |
| 2 | At present , the reins of central control in management development have been slackened , and Health Authorities locally have been freer to decide for themselves . |
| 3 | Stainless steel cleaners : Many products so described are polishes or include substances which may leave undesirable residues on food contact surfaces . |
| 4 | Ask a neighbour to collect your post , water your plants ( dead plants or plants that are regularly on windowsills suddenly removed are tell-tale signs ) and perhaps to draw your curtains every night . |
| 5 | The collocations so formed are therefore representative of such financial material and hence will be more specific than those from the general dictionary . |
| 6 | The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 7 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 8 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 9 | The Jubilee Line is vital to Docklands construction firms as 40 per cent of the offices already built are still vacant . |
| 10 | But the relationships thus expressed are multifaceted ; they stretch outward through the whole society , they are not simply domestic . |
| 11 | The schools meanwhile have been critical of the hardware on offer . |
| 12 | They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable . |
| 13 | The complexity of variables thus introduced is almost literally dizzying , and either a lot of complicated sums or ( more likely ) much trial and error , rehearsing with stand-ins , must have been done . |
| 14 | That argument certainly would be supported by evidence about migration to Britain , where brothers already settled are an important source of work contacts and economic support for new migrants ( Oakley , 1979 ; Anwar , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | The influences just outlined are in most cases the more important ones but they are by no means the only ones — nor are they exclusive . |
| 16 | As Virtues 's Household physician 1924 ) so succinctly puts it , ‘ the main object in the treatment of these filthy diseases is the destruction of the parasite … strict cleanliness of the person is a sine qua non … the remedies usually employed are the mercurials , sulphur , carbolic acid , tobacco , etc . ’ |
| 17 | Taken together with the British Museum General Catalogue , a very significant proportion of all the books ever published is listed . |
| 18 | Specifically , the SE found that although Barlow Clowes claimed to deal only in government stock , ‘ evidence of their dealing in equities also had been found . ’ |
| 19 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 20 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 21 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 22 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 23 | The domination of the curriculum by subjects classically defined was , indeed , the most obvious feature of the grammar-school curriculum . |
| 24 | The Marquis may have had a diggicult year but the last few months though have been more difficult for Becky Blandford . |
| 25 | The number of words correctly selected is a strong indication , but there are some other results that should also be considered . |
| 26 | What their words really imply is that they do not want to think about why they are out of breath on stairs . |
| 27 | ‘ The repeated testing is leading to problems in that animals now associate being put in a crush with being tested and one can get considerable stress in older animals . |
| 28 | But for too long the cry of librarians disposing of books willy-nilly has been : ‘ You worry too much . |
| 29 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 30 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |