Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says it will subsidise future private operators rather than permit them to raise London commuter fares to commercial levels . |
| 2 | One major difficulty about these notions of prejudice and stereotype concerns the all too common assumption that individuals hold prejudiced views consistently and express them and act in accordance with them in a systematic and uncontradictory manner . |
| 3 | Andrei , a conscript , swapped Latvian biscuits for Mongolian Arkhi vodka and Vitalie , a teenage cadet , explained the secret of speaking Russian ; you run the hyphenated syllables together and roll your Rs . |
| 4 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 5 | Robin commented : ‘ The operation of the monthly audit has drawn the regional operations closer and assisted us in meeting even higher customer service standards . |
| 6 | The number of private homes more than tripled in that period , so that by 1986 over 52 per cent of all residential homes were in private hands . |
| 7 | I'l be back with more on those European ties tomorrow but remember three important matches tonight . |
| 8 | I think you 've got to do something drastic , at the end of last year a considerable number of working parties and committees were actually reduced or eliminated , and I look at education and I look at the sub- committees of education , they 've all been replaced by working parties now that meet more and more regularly . |
| 9 | Corral generally prefers buying from commercial galleries rather than auction houses and she often consults the artists about the works the Museum intends to buy . |
| 10 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 11 | Meredith rubbed reddened fingers together and went round to the boot to unload her wares . |
| 12 | We are pleased offer our detailed views below and hope they will be taken into account before the Government finalises its procedures for the implementation of the EC Directive . |
| 13 | For instance , difficult toddlers were found to have more behavioural problems when they went to primary school ; unsociable toddlers were found to have poor social skills later and had difficulty in adjusting to school ; and toddlers with good language development showed above-average ability in language at the age of six . |
| 14 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 15 | PUTNEY buried one of its favourite sons yesterday and bore testament to a passing era . |
| 16 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 17 | That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones . |
| 18 | The HP SupportPack is a three-year support package available through authorised resellers worldwide and designed to keep customers ' business operations up and running with assurance of next-day product replacement directly from Hewlett-Packard . |
| 19 | Odd-Knut muzzles the dog with a piece of trace line , ties its front and back legs together and lies it on its side . |
| 20 | The fishermen , mostly from Brittany , smashed stalls and weighing scales , crushed shells underfoot and left hundreds of pounds of fish strewn on the ground . |
| 21 | The crows avoided the central green eggs , but they shifted to nearby wheatfields rather than travelling to the white eggs . |
| 22 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 23 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 24 | When he first returned , my friends on the surgical side had made themselves fresh caps daily and spent hours on their faces before going on duty . |
| 25 | He held several distinguished posts here and took British citizenship in 1939 . |
| 26 | He held several distinguished posts here and took British citizenship in 1939 . |
| 27 | Spread it over the cake drum around the boat and buoys with a palette knife , blending the different tones together and making sure that the fondant under the boat is covered . |
| 28 | Although Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum spends less time in this country than his three younger brothers , the ruler of Dubai still owns about 130 top racehorses here and has extensive business interests . |
| 29 | Ernest Rutherford had discovered the existence of the atomic nucleus in 1911 and this reinforced the vague idea : bring nuclei of light elements together and build the nuclei of heavy ones . |
| 30 | The majority of the letters lend themselves to design shapes , the only problems occurring with such letters as E. If you want to make them really small , the shape will have to be worked in tiny flowers to accommodate all the different angles clearly and give the letter sufficient definition . |