Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to work for a living is widely recognized , but the necessity to do so may have often been bitterly resented by many people over the years . |
| 2 | There is another problem when it comes to applying market prices to environmental capital : the pieces of green environment that are most treasured by most people are their gardens . |
| 3 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 4 | A recent study describes 11 patients who had retroperitoneal perforation during ERCP and who were all successfully treated by conservative means . |
| 5 | 1:1 nitric acid solution ( 10 ml concentrated nitric acid slowly added to 10 ml water in a 50 ml beaker ) . |
| 6 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 7 | Manufacturers have also been putting a lot of resources into providing a wide range of dry foods especially formulated for marine fish species . |
| 8 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 9 | Along the west coast a narrow fringe of land is affected by salt spray and carries a close-cropped vernal squill maritime pasture ( Scilla verna — Festuca rubra , Robertson , 1984 ) much favoured by grazing sheep . |
| 10 | For the Windies , much depended on overnight pair Brian Lara and Keith Arthurton and they did not disappoint . |
| 11 | If an existing cistern is too small , a second cistern can be installed alongside joined by two 28mm pipes at low level . |
| 12 | Briefly , 3 10 7 cells grown in RPMI 1640 supplemented with 5% FCS were harvested , washed twice in 1 PBS and resuspended in 2 ml of buffer B ( 60 mM KCl , 15 mM NaCl , 0.15 mM spermine , 0.5 mM spermidine , 15 mM HEPES pH 7.5 , 14 mM β-mercaptoethanol , 0.3 M sucrose , 0.5 mM EGTA and 2mM EDTA ) ; 2 ml of buffer B containing 0.1% NP40 were added ( final NP40 concentration : 0.05% ) and the mixture was gently pipetted for 1 min on ice . |
| 13 | He thought he could talk his way out of this easily enough surrounded by educated people of a less prejudiced kind than Dr Kingsley . |
| 14 | Suddenly the Whitley was entirely surrounded by strange aircraft I learned later after much research that they were Fairey Foxes ) . |
| 15 | The resulting knock-down sale at the end of the day was eagerly awaited by many people , who were able to buy a basket for 6d . |
| 16 | In a third society , the axehead may be a symbol of authority , only possessed by certain people . |
| 17 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
| 18 | It was quite a gift , but he had no vanity ; they were short and suitable and much admired by some people . |
| 19 | Put in such terms , that is a cheap and tawdry act , and the whole campaign is rightly reviled by most people . |
| 20 | Old people might be denied surgery on the grounds that the available resources are better spent on younger people . |
| 21 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 22 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 23 | Good knockabout stuff , apparently signed by nine MPs , eight of them Lib Dems . |
| 24 | Some companies opt for a simple mailing of information supported by the product samples , or the complete package may be personally delivered to selected media by the PR executives concerned . |
| 25 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 26 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
| 27 | Since the late 1960s , deaths from heart disease in the UK have only declined by some 10% for men and some 2% for women as compared with Canada and the USA which have achieved reductions of some 40% and 50% respectively [ 3 ] . |
| 28 | And it was n't you see , a matter of being intimately connected with other people 's dirty clothes — that 's something I was thankful for , I must admit . |
| 29 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 30 | In the last resort , self-awareness requires the personal acceptance that responsibility for doing something about feelings or circumstances is a personal one , which can not be effectively decided by other people . |