Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ground twitches , gurgles and bubbles as the insect minutiae adapts to sudden flooding .
2 It can be seen in table 12.2 , that T g increases with increasing V χ in the progressive series , polyethylene , polypropylene , polystyrene , and poly ( vinyl naphthalene ) .
3 Additional algorithms are used to model total building damage costs for each grid cell based on water-depth and speed-depth rating curves .
4 Over half of all pensioner income comes from social security .
5 As planners themselves say , traffic is a part of life … building roads leads to more roads .
6 Hampshire think they may lose up to a quarter of their membership when Dean Park goes after this season .
7 Of course consumerism works by convincing people that they actually ‘ need ’ non-essential products as an aid to the quality of life .
8 Ian Taylor speaks from personal experience when writing about chalk pits .
9 The base category acts in analogous manner to the fitted median with interval level data .
10 In some cases Bourdieu speaks of individual strategies intended to reinforce one 's own position within the lineage .
11 At present responsibility falls into several government departments .
12 The most popular dude ranch states with British holidaymakers are Arizona , Colorado and Wyoming .
13 At present BIRON consists of descriptive information about studies held , not the datasets themselves , which have to be ordered from the Archive in a separate process .
14 There will be funds for the schooling of the Corporation Man 's children , special superannuation schemes and of course expense accounts for overseas travel , entertaining and other corporation ‘ responsibilities ’ .
15 The ’ chancer ’ or ’ bodger ’ in the building industry has in recent years become more of a problem .
16 The vigilante movie plays to those emotions in all of us , legitimising it .
17 The trading performance of the Scotch Whisky Industry stands in marked contrast to that of UK plc .
18 Hampden Babylon breaks with this tradition .
19 Directed and co-written ( with brother Rick ) by John Dahl , Red Rock West deals with symbolic characters ( Texans wear big hats and string ties ) , innuendo , telling imagery and notions .
20 Twin humbucker guitars are enjoying something of a rebirth at present , thanks mainly to the players who are treading that particular path ( I 'm thinking of Nuno , Satriani & co ) and having played Strat derivatives for so long , it 's easy to forget just how good a neck humbucker sounds at full throttle .
21 David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 .
22 Hence the expansion of dictionary definitions descends into progressive generality , displaying a weaker and weaker semantic relationship with the original word .
23 LACHMAN ASSOCIATES RE-EMERGES THROUGH INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS BUY
24 The Administration Department consists of four divisions : Legal Services , Administrative Services , Estates Services and Personnel and Management Services .
25 The observation that the period of the sleep/wake rhythm differs from 24 hours is important because it indicates that environmental cues can not have been responsible .
26 Gibberellin , shown to be necessary for continued growth of dodder vine tips in aseptic cultures , also interacts with cytokinins and auxins in the growth of subapical segments ; it augments their effects .
27 A substantial proportion of the temporary labour force works on apart-time basis .
28 Unlike land resources and the capital stock , a country 's labour force consists of human beings with widely differing skills and aspirations whose welfare is affected by changes in both employment levels and the conditions of employment .
29 If Graham can write something solid about the lousy deal research gets in this country , it can do nothing but good .
30 His seal ring appears on one coin , while others depict the goddess Roma wearing his war helmet and the god Hercules , who is shown wearing Alexander 's diadem and with his hairstyle ( fig. 21 ) .
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