Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ‘ s mainly the press having to find a story or supporters letting their bias colour their judgement . |
| 2 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 3 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 4 | Much of the factory food we eat is so tasteless that in desperation people reach for the brown sauce , tomato ketchup or pickles to perk it up . |
| 5 | ‘ People go to school to learn , ’ he said , ‘ and if they go to school to learn , at the end of the day they have to be marked in such a way that future employers or colleges know what they have achieved . ’ |
| 6 | First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business . |
| 7 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 8 | A total of 210 men used firearms or explosives to end their lives , whereas no women used this method . |
| 9 | If other absorbing products or intermediates occur there will be no isosbestic point . |
| 10 | ‘ Whether the birthing chamber is a hospital operating room or our own bedroom , most of us enter without any previous experience or images to guide us . |
| 11 | The Rank Organisation 's policy defines exceptional cases as those where ‘ the recruit 's seniority , special skills , experience or qualifications make it particularly desirable to offer him employment and it appears improbable that he will accept unless a contribution is made towards his relocation expenses ’ . |
| 12 | Power clearly has something to do with ‘ getting one 's own way ’ and the behaviourist approach involves studying actual behaviour to see which groups or individuals get their own way in cases of decision-making where there is an observable conflict . |
| 13 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 14 | Apart from that fucking business card they have no forensic evidence ; no weapons , bloodstained clothes or even minutiae like hairs or fibres to link me with any of the attacks . |
| 15 | If you do n't know they were trainers or shoes say they were a white type |
| 16 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 17 | Think about your spare , or time , or leisure time in general , what regular hobbies or interests do you have ? |
| 18 | He was indeed suffering from foul of the foot , the mediaeval term given because of the stink of the necrotic tissue between the cleats , and I did n't have any antibiotics or sulphonamides to treat it . |
| 19 | No cars or planes to speed you as you go |
| 20 | What books or articles do I already know that address my main question ? |
| 21 | Once in a while fantastic planetary aspects or influences afford one the perfect opportunity to prove just how daring , adventurous and self-confident one can be . |
| 22 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 23 | Consider the following , and see how many words or phrases describe your feelings — as you remember them — at the time you left nursing . |
| 24 | If , however , existing levels of industrial concentration are insufficient for such strategic control , the state can foster industrial reorganization or cartels to facilitate it . |
| 25 | Er and when you saw the figure or figures did you say anything then ? |
| 26 | KEEP copies of annual appraisals or letters praising your work . |
| 27 | Some patients begin to recover their ability to balance and to use their limbs fully within two to three weeks , whereas others may take months or years to reach their full potential , especially if they have perceptual problems and severe spasticity . |
| 28 | Genes directly dictate the manufacture of molecules called proteins , and it is through their proteins that genes exert their effects on the phenotype of the body . |
| 29 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 30 | The recognition that children have their own ideas about phenomena , and that they may be very different from their teacher 's ideas , has important implications for teaching and learning . |