Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 2 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 3 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 4 | Two other characteristics which mostly attracted indirect mention but which , nevertheless , were important included : purity , in the sense of not containing other substances ; dependability in the sense that the product can always be relied upon to meet the mothers ' standard ( viz softness , non-irritant , pure ) . |
| 5 | The marriage of Henry of Anjou to Eleanor and his accession , two years later , to the throne of England had brought together under a single sceptre peoples and provinces which hardly knew each other . |
| 6 | From time to time Jos would look over Mungo 's shoulder , suggesting tactics which invariably proved disastrous . |
| 7 | Group membership could promote ties which often transcended other loyalties . |
| 8 | Is it not ironic that the Government are introducing the Bill at a time when virtually all the political parties — parties which rarely find common ground , as we have tragically and sadly witnessed over the years — see eye to eye in opposing the scheme ? |
| 9 | The gargoyle shower heads which never saw running water . |
| 10 | In times of special crisis at home and abroad such as severe unemployment in East London , or famine in India , the Lord Mayor of London , and mayors of other towns , opened relief funds which often attracted large subscriptions . |
| 11 | Many of the identifications of portraits of Roman emperors which nowadays seem self-evident do in fact ultimately depend on the associations made by scholars since the Renaissance between these portraits and labelled coins . |
| 12 | Access is a database management system aimed at non-programmers which also uses graphical tools . |
| 13 | Other parasitic insects which may attack the vine are pyralis ( the larvae of the meal-moth which feeds on young shoots and leaves ) ; altise ( a beetle which feeds on the leaves ) ; phyptus vitis ( a microscopic mite which attacks leaves , flowers and grapes , rendering a condition known as erinosis , first recognised by red leaf blisters which gradually turn yellow ) and cochenilles ( various bugs which feed on the sap , weakening the vine ) . |
| 14 | Well , you know , there are little corner shops which still have some sense of individuality about them . |
| 15 | The War drained men from many schools which then experienced great difficulty in maintaining staffing levels . |
| 16 | In practice , that opportunity will be provided by the resit diet in subjects which currently have such a facility . |
| 17 | In practice , that opportunity will be provided by the resit diet in subjects which currently have such a facility . |
| 18 | Comparisons of virulence of closely related parasites in hosts with which they have co-evolved automatically control for many third variables which potentially confound such analyses . |
| 19 | That distracts time and attention into sectors which typically offer lower profit margins than drugs . |
| 20 | Pictures by the Andokides Painter often occur on vases which also carry black-figure pictures , repeating the scene ( as in figs. 86–7 , Herakles driving a bull to sacrifice ) or different . |
| 21 | They are not particularly finely knotted , but are well made , using thick yarns of excellent quality wool , and are produced in a range of mainly modern designs which frequently reflect 20th-century abstract art . |
| 22 | The international safeguards which apparently prevent civil nuclear material from being used for arms fuelling can be side stepped by nuclear powers like the UK ‘ for national security reasons ’ Priddle admitted . |
| 23 | The cones are concentrated in the fovea , and the rest of the retina has a higher proportion of rods which only provide monochrome vision . |
| 24 | The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject . |
| 25 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 26 | Take that a step further , after the end of twelve months you then lose this fifteen thousand |
| 27 | However , even if there are some cases of peaceable peoples who rarely feel mutual hostility , they are not easy to find . |
| 28 | If it is possible to mention something in the programme it will allow other fans who perhaps have little contact with the club , to use this excellent free facility . |
| 29 | Walkers who already have real beards need not despair . |
| 30 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |