Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns .
2 Around forty senior figures from the Catholic church attended the ceremony which dates back many centuries .
3 The FAO itself flies out 100,000 doses of cattle semen to developing countries each year .
4 In particular , I do not claim that the text " " presents " " these units " , in practice he picks out intonational units from the text as if they were given ( albeit he sometimes admits to ambiguities of prosodic structure ) .
5 The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs .
6 Caps are to be awarded but after two Test defeats in New Zealand Fouroux has had a clearout which brings in four newcomers and creates a largely unfamiliar pack designed to take on Australia next month .
7 And that could mean the end for the peace camp which dates back eleven years .
8 erm a sister who sends out wonderful letters and they 've been published , and my husband he calls , you know , whenever he can .
9 It was the sound of mud and moisture , the kind of sound which conjures up bare seashores with the tide far out and clear skies overhead .
10 Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes .
11 Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences .
12 As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego .
13 The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred .
14 Deviancy , so the argument runs , has its roots in generational conflict which appears along cultural lines .
15 It is the VPK which draws up detailed contracts for production ministries , legally binding on all parties .
16 Even G. D. H. Cole , far more critical of the Communists than Strachey , could not see " any sharp line which marks off British Communists from other British Socialists " .
17 There is a distinction in principle between a book which sets out original ideas , and justifies them ( a MONOGRAPH ) , and a book whose primary function is to distil and tell you what other people 's ideas are ( a TEXTBOOK ) .
18 For Francesca , who 's almost 3 , suffers from a brain disorder which triggers off convulsive fits .
19 I am arguing against it because on the one hand it brings about environmental improvements in the town centre which according to the latest published government information which as as Mr has has himself said , i is stricter th th than we had published previously .
20 Their waste , or " tailings " , contains a high proportion of sulphur which leaches out toxic metals .
21 The definition of who is , and who is not , a housewife is phrased in terms of responsibility : thus a housewife is ‘ the person , other than a domestic servant , who is responsible for most of the household duties ( or for supervising a domestic servant who carries out these duties ) ’ .
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