Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a greater emphasis on the concept of spending needs which had to be costed out and in some cases justified and even evaluated . |
| 2 | The two men-at-arms leered but promptly buried their noses in their cups . |
| 3 | Three by five foot in size , the flags are made in patchwork from European trade cloth with the designs appliquéd and occasionally embroidered . |
| 4 | In response , Adenauer and Strauss not only had the magazine 's offices searched but also arrested its editor . |
| 5 | These considerations indicate that well designed studies of the clinical effectiveness of appropriate treatment with oxygen in the prevention of death of hypoxaemic infants and children in hospital are now required . |
| 6 | By the time he had finished ordering coffee , and , laying down the phone , was turning towards her , Lisa was sitting upright in her seat , her blue eyes alert and perfectly focused . |
| 7 | Shiona gripped the steering-wheel and squeezed her eyes shut and slowly counted up to ten . |
| 8 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 9 | Thus this in its turn can be spread as thickly or as thinly as one 's intuitions require and therefore used in defence of competing practical positions , most notably in the debates over abortion or the environment . |
| 10 | These little blisters enlarge and eventually burst to form ulcers which are shallow and acutely painful to touch . |
| 11 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 12 | A bit of fish , a little sauce , one or two new potatoes boiled and then rolled in butter and parsley , and a frond or two of samphire if you have been lucky enough to find it . |
| 13 | Her parents separated and later divorced and she says the ‘ family split into two ’ . |
| 14 | We now know that Mls determinants are proteins encoded by genes of mouse mammary tumour viruses integrated and vertically transmitted in the mouse genome — in effect they are self-antigens , and as with any self-antigen encountered by T cells during their maturation in the thymus , T cells that react with Mls determinants are clonally eliminated in their early development with consequent ‘ skewing ’ of the animal 's V T-cell repertoire . |
| 15 | Licensees say they have sent rents soaring and already forced many out of business . |
| 16 | Though the benches at the lower trestles were filling up quickly , Isabel saw that none of the nobles had as yet put in an appearance . |
| 17 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 18 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 19 | The course aims to bridge a gap identified by a report for the Arts Council of NI , which concluded that crafts have as yet untapped potential for the local economy , with a discrepancy between young people who train successfully and those ending up in business . |
| 20 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
| 21 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 22 | 4.2 acknowledges that the copyright in any modifications , additions or translations commissioned or otherwise effected by and at the expense of to meet market needs in the Territories shall remain the copyright of . |
| 23 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 24 | Given the miles of corridor which had to be traversed , this essential commodity left the kitchens boiling but often arrived either tepid or cold . |
| 25 | The Lord of the Rings is a study in threatened cosiness , of loved haunts lost and daringly recovered . |
| 26 | Generally , children from orthodox homes were placed in hostels controlled or strongly influenced by the Chief Rabbi 's Religious Emergency Council led by Solomon Schonfeld . |
| 27 | Within days of the report 's appearance , the Labour Party — after a two-years study that inevitably consulted many of the same people as the prince 's working party — announced a very similar plan , calling them Newton Institutes . |
| 28 | Soviet studies underlined that historically neutralised and demilitarised territories had often been created on the basis of unequal treaties and had resulted from the inability of the colonial powers at a given period to agree to the direct partition of a colony . |
| 29 | However , our own observations show that once invited to submit a proposal , a school 's case is subject to the same criteria as any other , and that these criteria are fairly rigorously applied . |
| 30 | NORWEB not only paid the ELR a commercial rate for the daily goods train but also made a substantial donation to the ELR-coach restoration fund . |