Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , a number of groupings of National Certificate Modules have gained recognition as alternatives to SCE awards for candidates seeking employment or admission to further and higher education . |
| 2 | Career opportunities include teaching in schools , lecturing or administration in further and higher education , administration of recreation in local authorities , the management of recreation in sports centres , youth and community work and research . |
| 3 | DEWHIRST , the clothing and toiletries maker that relies on Marks & Spencer for more than 80 p.c. of its sales , increased profits from £3m to £4.1m last year on turnover up 7 p.c. at £130m . |
| 4 | Er and then w we used to do the bill posting , vote for so and so , or vote for so and so . |
| 5 | Must check every six months that cap is the right size , also after childbirth , or weight gain or loss of more than three kilograms seven lbs as size of the vagina may change . |
| 6 | Paddocks should never have acute angles or corners of less than ninety degrees , where a horse may become trapped by others ; fences should never have barbed wire or cattle mesh in them . |
| 7 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 8 | Or sort of there and further on . |
| 9 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's 11.30 pm or midnight by now and they 're all turning out of Harry 's Bar , so we go down there . |
| 11 | If you have a pension and state benefits but no savings or capital worth more than £3000 , then you will pay part of your pension and probably all of your benefits towards the cost . |
| 12 | His description of the aircraft was not far out ; John Pain reported : ‘ By the time we left , aircraft were being repaired with dope-painted linen or cloth from anywhere and metal repairs were made with the aid of Players 50s tins . |
| 13 | The past decade has seen the opening or re-opening of more than 100 miles of track and 127 stations . |
| 14 | Ring on Wednesdays or Fridays between 3.30pm and 4.30pm |
| 15 | Ring on Wednesdays or Fridays between 3.30pm and 4.30pm . |
| 16 | 3 The most important group of all is ‘ finance capitalists ’ , who have an important stake in the ownership , management , or financing of more than one company . |
| 17 | The instructor 's award is to be subdivided into those able to instruct on cliffs of less than 40 metres and 40 metres plus , and groups of less than 50 abseilers ( one coachload ? ) , and more than 50 people ( multiple coach loads ) . |
| 18 | Mobility deprivation is therefore real and can afflict many persons and groups in more or less rural areas . |
| 19 | lt is important that the analyst detects the views and expectations of individuals and groups from within and around the organisation that exert power in it . |
| 20 | The rate suggested was 8d.per pound for incomes and possessions worth less than £20 , 1s. per pound over that figure . |
| 21 | The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) . |
| 22 | Popular Front leaders also protested before the elections that the conditions were unfair given the continuing state of emergency in Baku ( the capital ) , where outdoor rallies remained banned and meetings of more than 100 people needed approval by the military authorities . |
| 23 | The contract involves sampling , analysis and assessment at more than 200 waste disposal points throughout central London and its surrounding boroughs , including existing and former landfills , transfer stations and public tipping sites |
| 24 | The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia saw its dismemberment and division into more than 300 individual and sovereign states and principalities . |
| 25 | Farnborough , who took West Ham to a reply in the FA Cup last year , are in desperate financial trouble with debts of £50,000 and crowds of less than 500 this season . |
| 26 | The court heard that a desperate financial crisis and debts of more than £40,000 drove Shooter to hatch his unsuccessful plot . |
| 27 | One survey discovered that 31% of spot sufferers had blemishes for 3–5 years , and 14% for more than 10 years . |
| 28 | Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries ! |
| 29 | After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance . |
| 30 | People are a bit like machines , ’ he added solemnly , while her face went redder , ‘ and words like please and thank you are just like grease . |