Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have rushed back here , started up the engines and dashed out to sea , and we 'd have sent a police launch or the local equivalent of the Customs and Excise after them . ’ |
| 2 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 3 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 4 | All of this leads Fred and Beth to worry that the fatal combination of an explosion of ‘ free time ’ with a booming global market in consumer goods and leisure industries will spell the death of their great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long — individual self-realization , mutuality in work and levelling out of global economic inequalities . |
| 5 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 6 | Two weeks ago , President Askar Akayev , a quantum physicist by profession and a liberal of impeccable credentials , was forced to issue a statement denying that a mass deportation of Russians was planned . |
| 7 | The move came as the Bond group disclosed that the fifth deadline for its A$2.5billion brewing deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan had passed without agreement , and that the basis of talks was to change . |
| 8 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 9 | It is supposed that the major factor behind this trend is the financial pressure faced by local authorities , especially as a result of reductions in the amount of central government grant that they receive . |
| 10 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 11 | It is , however , generally supposed that the same sequence of events occurs but with greater fluctuation in the position of any particular stage . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ In order to prevent literary contracts being held up , I also suggest that a general power of attorney be given to me again only in a limited area and only to be used if Elinor be indisposed . ’ |
| 13 | Studies on the nervous control mechanisms of insect flight ( Wilson , 1968 ) suggest that a simple pattern of neural output to the flight-muscles , produced centrally , can support a form of flight , even in the absence of sensory input from wing receptors . |
| 14 | Recent research by Calmfors and Diffil ( 1988 ) suggest that a key contingency in comparing capitalisms is the type of wage bargaining systems which is institutionalized in different national settings . |
| 15 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 16 | Although we were not able to collect complete data from more than one seizure in any of the 6 patients , the incomplete data from repeated seizures suggest that a similar rise in extracellular fluid glutamate before seizures is a consistent finding . |
| 17 | For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women . |
| 18 | However , studies suggest that a major source of enterprise autonomy is the ability of management to manipulate the conflicting political pressures on it and to negotiate successfully with the fragmented political authorities in the central state administration ( see , e.g. , Hannah 1982 : ch. 5 ; Feigenbaum 1985 ) . |
| 19 | The failure to find organisms in affected tissue with sensitive immunohistochemical methods and the variable responses of the condition to antituberculous drugs suggest that a definite role for mycobacteria in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease remains unproved . |
| 20 | These results suggest that a high proportion of the microorganisms living in the concretion survive by anaerobic respiration such as Fe(III) or sulphate reduction . |
| 21 | Reviewed in the light of these population shifts , the findings in subjects with phenylketonuria suggest that a high proportion of early treated subjects — not just a poorly managed minority — exhibit some degree of intellectual impairment and that the major impact is in early childhood before there is any question of relaxing or stopping treatment . |
| 22 | The mechanism of drug resistance is not clear but earlier episodes suggest that a particular combination of events — pre-existing status of the various parasite clones , drug use habits or a particular combination of several drugs , the introduction of new parasites , transmission by mosquitoes — leads to the emergence of resistant isolates in restricted foci . |
| 23 | Although changes in global policy can not be made on the basis of the present study alone , the results suggest that a supplemental dose of IPV or OPV administered at the time of measles vaccination might increase a population 's immunity against poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 24 | In children older than 11 months both the univariate and multivariate analyses suggest that a respiratory rate of 60/min is preferable to the suggested 70/min as a cut off value for the prediction of hypoxaemia . |
| 25 | The Department has published the results of trials which suggest that a single hectare of coppice can provide up to 15 tonnes of fuelwood every year — sufficient to heat a large farmhouse . |
| 26 | Despite the above difficulties , our results suggest that a significant proportion of potential transplant candidates is not being referred for transplant assessment . |
| 27 | The agreement follows surveys which suggest that a significant proportion of people would be prepared to pay a price premium of between 14 and 25 per cent for sustainably-harvested timber . |
| 28 | They also suggest that the possible existence of the relationship might explain the inconsistent results obtained from studies of the effects of dividends using the capital asset pricing model . |
| 29 | Tentative estimates suggest that the average duration of lone parenthood could be between three and five years . |
| 30 | They suggest that the adverse reaction to the food has some direct effect on centres in the brain which control breathing . |