Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough . |
| 3 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 4 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 5 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 6 | No do n't play trampolines sit down please now ! |
| 7 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 8 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 9 | He said the standard return fare between York and London would rise from £84 to £117.60 as private operators sought a 20pc profit on their investment . |
| 10 | Metaphors became mixed and feelings ran high . |
| 11 | On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair . |
| 12 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 13 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 14 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 15 | What is meant by class and ethnic reductionism and essentialism is illustrated here by Rex 's assumption of deterministic and invariable cultural patterns producing inevitable individual responses . |
| 16 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 17 | Corporate finance that looked right under the old rules can look drastically wrong if the rules change |
| 18 | Financial decisions — how much to borrow , how much to lend , at what price — made under one set of rules and incentives go wrong when the rules change . |
| 19 | World Cup rules change |
| 20 | ‘ The moment database vendors come out with versions that do it automatically , the rules change , ’ it says . |
| 21 | Rules change on pets likely |
| 22 | New EEC rules change light dues |
| 23 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 24 | Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs . |
| 25 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 26 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 27 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 28 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 29 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 30 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |