Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 2 | This dust , and a , what 's it a hundred and fifty cars all piled up on top of one another |
| 3 | The southern Pennines has the highest calculated load of nitrogen at 25 — 55kg/N/ha , John Lee from Manchester University and Sarah Woodin of the NCC have shown that sphagnum peat bogs first killed off by sulphur dioxide now can not recover because of high levels of nitrogen . |
| 4 | To our delight these turned out to be white-billed divers , another species which breeds farther east along the Siberian coast . |
| 5 | Mr Choyce adopted the technique from work first carried out by Georges Baikonn in France . |
| 6 | A perfect day 's drive would be a visit to the islands on Lake Constance , including Mainau , which is famous for its tropical and exotic plants first planted back in 1827 . |
| 7 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 8 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 9 | Billy Connolly socialist people all switched on to watch that programme because they like Billy Connolly it . |
| 10 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 11 | This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices . |
| 12 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 13 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp , their Unix efforts will hang separately , IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and its Univel Inc unit , and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at the UniForum trade show in San Francisco yesterday to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix vendors — but over time , the effort will extend beyond the desktop to embrace common networking , graphics , multimedia , distributed object technology and systems management . |
| 14 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 15 | Erm I propose that ordinary resolution , resolution three set out in the notice of the meeting to grant authority to the board to exercise the powers of the company to allot ordinary shares er , this is an annual er , event I put the resolution to the meeting , those in favour any against ? |
| 16 | There 's a wonderful picture of the , body of a a women all curled up in today 's paper . |
| 17 | Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent was expected to be ready to show two pre-production prototypes of its high-end WinServer 5000 series , one being the much-anticipated 30-way box carrying a mix-and-match assortment of Intel Corp Pentiums and 80486 chips , in itself a design feat , and the other an 18-way WinServer 5000 fitted out with only 60MHz Pentiums , a modern-day exercise in conspicuous consumption considering the rarity of the chips . |
| 18 | It is rumoured to be ready to show two pre-production prototypes of its high-end WinServer 5000 series ( UX No 434 ) , one being the much-anticipated 30-way box carrying a mix-and-match assortment of Intel Corp Pentiums and 80486 chips , that in itself is a design feat , and the other an 18-way WinServer 5000 fitted out with only 60MHz Pentiums , a modern-day exercise in conspicuous consumption considering the rarity of the chips . |
| 19 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 20 | Then , while Henry Ii headed back to Anjou , Richard and Alfonso of Aragon besieged Bertrand de Born in Hautefort . |
| 21 | The first choice keeper , David Harvey of Leeds United called off in what remains the most unlikely circumstances in the history of the game . |
| 22 | In the above account workers passively accept a reduction in their real wage rate from w to w 1 brought about through increases in the price level . |