Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | those who have come through traditional SCOTVEC and C & G courses consider that the style of the HNC ‘ unitised ’ programme allows them more freedom to further develop their personal and academic skills . |
| 2 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |
| 3 | Heuston tells us how Lord Halsbury when he was a Parliamentary candidate was congratulated by Sir Edward Clarke on his election defeat by nine votes in 1874 . |
| 4 | " Leading from start to finish gives it more credibility . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 6 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 7 | Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Hopefully if the doctor prescribes me more antibiotics tomorrow then I 'll have finished them by then — if not we 'll have to rearrange things . |
| 9 | The Holst work is played in an unusually emphatic manner , which in the end gives it more stature than it sometimes achieves in performance ( the composer himself recorded this work with rather similar regard to rhythm and accents , but used faster tempos ) . |
| 10 | The week-long shower drives me up ladders |
| 11 | The fact is , there are millions of copies of Windows 3. x out there at the moment , and one survey has it that 33% of business PC users are currently computing under Windows . |
| 12 | The forest habitat of the Asian elephant allows it more shade . |
| 13 | His painting gives us much pleasure — he did splendidly to find his way so well with his painting — and I am sure that he must have responded to being appreciated for his work as well as for his teaching . |
| 14 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |