Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it .
2 I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’
3 ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile .
4 ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile .
5 There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests .
6 You will find he will go to immense trouble to avoid Night Goblin units if he even thinks they might contain Fanatics .
7 However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour .
8 This does not fit , however , with the reef limestones and it certainly does not fit with the other facies that show the same persistence .
9 Matthew Pinsent , the Boat Club President , says that when the alarm goes off , it 's hard to get up , but you know that over in Cambridge they are already up and lifting weights and something just kicks you into action .
10 A comparable phenomenon has been described in a transgenic mouse model which produces long segments of HBsAg including pre S 1 proteins and which eventually develops distorted ground glass hepatocytes very similar to thsoe in the present liver transplant recipients .
11 The study not only describes changes in central-local relationships but it also attempts to explain them .
12 This allows more scope for using softer materials and complicated designs but it also means that the outer fabric can get wet , though you stay dry inside .
13 That was by that was by normal recruits but it still happens it , actually the the bullying goes down the line .
14 Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth .
15 This is not a criticism of the reporting organizations because it simply reflects our ignorance of how to measure the relationships .
16 It 's becoming common in many local authority , private and voluntary sector Homes because it generally works well both for residents and staff .
17 Consequently SCP is attractive to some corporate depositors since it commonly carries an interest rate of Libid or better and diversifies the risk away from the banking sector .
18 Since then , and until very recently , Europe has been united against the fear , which would have seemed as absurd in previous centuries as it still does to many in the 1980s , of Russia .
19 In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air .
20 One is the right to exactly equal treatment , that is , to the same distribution of goods or opportunities as everyone else has .
21 Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language .
22 I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today .
23 Ackland seems the sort of man who could hammer a nail in with his clenched teeth so he never begins to look like a tentative nonentity .
24 What this will do is present at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other units to secure the contracts that it ultimately undertakes at the minute .
25 The enclosure turned the Broyle into the landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads that it still remains .
26 It will maintain a sales and support network in the 150 countries where it now has a presence , but there may be cuts in both Wang employee numbers and the type of facilities it will operate .
27 MRI has been much slower to develop than computed tomography , but its impact in those areas where it clearly has a substantial advantage has been enormous , namely the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system .
28 Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates .
29 She pours withering scorn upon such ‘ painted poupées ’ as Joan Collins and Liz Taylor for the hours they devote to their images , as well as the men they choose as partners , but one look at the deep lines of bitterness etched into the faces of those women who renounce loving relationships in favour of cats , gardens or anything else tells me all I need to know .
30 The operation , although nearly always refused by vets in Britain , has become so common in certain countries that it even has an official name .
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