Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last twenty years , it has used the data provided by the Family Expenditure Surveys to estimate the net benefit which different income groups derive from public expenditure . |
| 2 | Rocard wins support for new centre-left party |
| 3 | Firstly , the size of capacitor is dictated by the phase current and the time for which " voltage-boosting " is needed ; large phase currents and long boost times lead to large capacitor values . |
| 4 | While oestrogen levels are high , the blood vessels remain in good condition , the walls of the vagina are thick and elastic , bones remain strong and skin blooms . |
| 5 | The labels parents attach to particular behaviour patterns often reflect this : thus one set of parents may see a grossly inactive baby as ‘ placid ’ and happily accept him as that , while another set might see the same child as irritatingly ‘ lazy ’ and accordingly try to force him to behave differently . |
| 6 | Assuming L and R lesions occur with equal frequency , and that a lesion in the speech hemisphere will always produce aphasia , the EUL will always be 50 per cent . |
| 7 | Highly poisonous laburnum seeds look like tiny chocolate drops ; fairly nasty lupin seeds come in little green pods , just like peas . |
| 8 | Wilmslow bowlers profit on wet pitch |
| 9 | Using the way light cones behave in general relativity together with the fact that gravity is always attractive , he showed that a star collapsing under its own gravity is trapped in a region whose surface eventually shrinks to zero size . |
| 10 | Most college failures stem from utter ignorance of the techniques of study and of being examined . |
| 11 | Its two miles of almost deserted white sand and coral reefs make for excellent sunbathing and snorkelling . |
| 12 | Therefore , whatever ‘ calculations ’ the parasite genes make about optimal policy , in any department of life , will converge on exactly , or nearly exactly , the same optimal policy as similar ‘ calculations ’ made by host genes . |
| 13 | Over most altitude ranges the wind speeds decline with decreasing altitude , and at the surface are only about 1 m/s . |
| 14 | Proposals aimed at confining the use of merger accounting to the ‘ relatively small number of cases which are true mergers ’ were published by the Accounting Standards Board as Financial Reporting exposure Draft 6 . |
| 15 | Before hunting Lele men abstain from sexual intercourse and avoid all contact with menstruating women . |
| 16 | Partly , too , it reflects the investment linguists have in scientific objectivity . |
| 17 | In the bedrooms fabric wallcoverings combine with cream wood furniture , and benefit from new marble bathrooms with a hair dryer . |
| 18 | In addition to the place settings dishwashers allow for extra cutlery and dishes for serving : |
| 19 | Claims that compact fluorescent light bulbs lead to substantial energy savings are misleading , according to a report published by a group of independent energy consultants . |
| 20 | Car shares swing into top gear |
| 21 | The effects from radon daughters come from low-level radiation . |
| 22 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 23 | Each winter flocks return to Slim bridge , the largest congregation of the species in Britain . |
| 24 | There are also difficulties in seeing how the Theft Act offences relate to civil law concepts , such as restitution , on which they are based . |
| 25 | Middling and large law firms work on gross profit margins of around 20–25% ( though margins of 50% are not unknown ) . |
| 26 | For example , health management problems overlap with social security management , which overlaps with economic management , which overlaps with local government management , which etc . |
| 27 | In the inflamed rheumatoid joint there is inflammation without any evidence of infection , yet glucose and oxygen levels drop to vanishing point in the fluid , depending on the numbers of lymphocytes there . |
| 28 | Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur . |
| 29 | The propensity children have for imposing meaning distinctions of their own in their adherence to Contrast may delay their discovery of the absence of a difference between an adult form and a child innovation . |
| 30 | ‘ Lapland buntings look like squashed reed buntings , ’ said Bryan . |