Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " 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 | A total of 210 men used firearms or explosives to end their lives , whereas no women used this method . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Consider the following , and see how many words or phrases describe your feelings — as you remember them — at the time you left nursing . |
| 5 | KEEP copies of annual appraisals or letters praising your work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | the curriculum is academic , but within a rounded context , wherein the whole child is educated to his or her whole potential and the arts and sports take their place ; |
| 8 | The thought of drifting along in the sunbeams , under the willow of the brook with only the frogs and water-rats to keep her company , filled her with glee . |
| 9 | Weedkillers and pesticides work their way up the food chain from plants , through insects and birds , into your family — which is a good reason to keep your garden organic . |
| 10 | Charles 's best general , Lord George Murray , had persuaded him to take the south-west route into England , to keep the Pennines between himself and Field Marshal Wade , and the Jacobites therefore advanced on Carlisle , while the deputy-mayor and clergy observed their approach apprehensively through ‘ a very large spying glass ’ from the cathedral tower . |
| 11 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 12 | Some husbands and wives know their mates are unfaithful to them , but they do n't confront the issue . |
| 13 | From evidence of this kind , Young and Willmott conclude that there is a growing tendency for husbands and wives to share their lives together more symmetrically . |
| 14 | Because these five women — with their beautifully made-up , famous faces are the nucleus of Parents for Safe Food , a group founded by celebrities to voice the concerns of an increasing number of men and women about the pesticides and herbicides making their way onto our plates . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll give you where 's the kid … she 's your daughter , Roy Ryan , and you fought hammer and tongs to marry her mother . |
| 16 | My brothers and sisters knew my dad could harbour a grudge , but not like this . |
| 17 | In New York State where 25 per cent of the electorate is Black , where more than 40,000 Americans live homeless , where drug dealing and drug addiction terrorize every neighborhood , where bridges collapse and subways defy your tolerance for filth , and where public schools fail to keep most of their students and also fail to teach the ones who stay , what was ‘ the issue of Israel ’ ? |
| 18 | Mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA , which replicates and propagates itself entirely independently of the main DNA in the chromosomes of the nucleus . |
| 19 | Not only trees but almost all groups of animals and plants exhibit their greatest variety in the tropics in terms of the number of species recorded there . |
| 20 | ‘ They flocked around the pole , not daring immediately to come too near , their eyes and beaks devouring my body as I watched . |
| 21 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 22 | We use a vast range of soaps and deodorants to attack our bodies , particularly those areas containing apocrine glands , in an often vain attempt to eliminate these odours . |
| 23 | Outside the Algarve — where the majority of accommodation is self-catering — by staying at pousadas , like Spanish paradores , set up as a method of making otherwise disused monasteries , castles and fortresses pay their way . |
| 24 | Often local craftsmen and women exhibit their talents , such as spinning , corn-dolly making and weaving . |
| 25 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 26 | Let it grow automatically as new groups of traders and merchants directed their steps there and decided eventually to settle and build there . |
| 27 | In the past , only the universities had this power , leaving polytechnics and colleges to award their degrees via the almost defunct Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) . |
| 28 | When in October 1931 , the SouthmeT received on loan , ten similar cars from the London United tramways , but with covered tops and Brill 22E trucks , the South Metropolitan L Type cars and others took their place in store at Fulwell depôt . |
| 29 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 30 | On the verge of passing out , she felt them connect her bluetower to the memorizer and Jezrael drowned in someone else 's memories , the battle-plans and layouts bulling their way in to trample her personality beneath them . |