Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of these dusty tomes he read in wonderment of the treasures of Tutenkamen and it was this that ignited in young Garrett a fire of enthusiasm for treasure hunting that still burns strongly today . |
| 2 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 3 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language , and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 4 | The issue we will examine is why delinquency is so attractive to some and unappealing to other youth . |
| 5 | Crystallizable polymers consist of a mass of tiny crystals , usually mis-oriented with respect to one another and embedded in non-crystalline material . |
| 6 | The pattern of inheritance of this simple characteristic led the Moravian monk , Gregor Mendel , to one of the greatest insights in biology — character traits were not blended during passage from one generation to another but inherited as separate factors , later called genes . |
| 7 | It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness . |
| 8 | It is important to remember this when thinking about climatic geomorphology , because if one assumes that landforms are going to vary significantly with these zones , one assumes that the climatic parameters controlling landforms are the same as those controlling natural vegetation . |
| 9 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 10 | Leaving behind hi-tech hospitals and computerized records did not bother me so much as leaving behind certain hard-won changes in birth procedures . |
| 11 | If we work at that and strive for extra quality and performance , we can come out of the recession pretty good shape . |
| 12 | Single figures on their own can mean very little but compared with other sets of figures , they can take on greater significance . |
| 13 | But that would be more than offset by other tax increases as Mr Lamont looks for extra funds to tackle the ballooning PSBR deficit , likely to be about £45 billion next year . |
| 14 | If it did , it would find that temporary gain in speed of advance would be more than offset by eventual loss . |
| 15 | However , Dr Clarke was quoted as saying : ‘ There are BNP people who relish a good scrap but they are more than matched by militant left thugs . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand , it is likely to be more than counterbalanced by heightened household poverty within the larger poorer families , and an overall reduction in local-government spending as a large proportion of expenditure will be controlled by central government . |
| 17 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 18 | In these pulsars , γ -ray emission accounts for as much as 1% of the total neutron star spin-down energy , much more than emerges at optical or radio frequencies , so study of this emission is important in understanding pulsar emission and evolution . |
| 19 | These cases demonstrate that social care planning involves far more than slotting in occasional services piece meal , as they are available . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing that vipers like more than basking on hot sunny rocks . ’ |
| 21 | Those that depend on recession-battered Germany , France 's biggest export market , have been hit hardest ; they will think twice before hiring and investing again . |
| 22 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 23 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 24 | But those that came from arid islands and had to crane their necks in order to reach branches of cactus or leaves of trees , had much longer necks and a high peak to the front of their shells that enabled them to stretch their necks almost vertically upwards . |
| 25 | This crucial transition can take tadpoles of other species — those that develop in cold mountain streams , for example — two or even three years to complete . |
| 26 | The two major approaches to control are ( a ) those that focus on financial values , such as budgetary control , and ( b ) those that focus on physical values , such as quality control . |
| 27 | The two major approaches to control are ( a ) those that focus on financial values , such as budgetary control , and ( b ) those that focus on physical values , such as quality control . |
| 28 | In this sense we are arguing that all accounts , including those that aspire to academic objectivity , are structured by the social contexts in which they are generated . |
| 29 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 30 | In addition , over the past 10 years , the number of shad , trout and other anadromous fish ( those that spawn in freshwater tributaries ) in the bay had mysteriously dropped ; and crab and oyster catches had tumbled . |