Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 2 | The designation is a form of landscape protection only and has little value in nature conservation terms . |
| 3 | If he failed to turn up , the Commissioner had the power to hear the plaintiff 's case only and give immediate judgement on it . |
| 4 | At dawn yesterday , Group Four piled on the pressure , catching the tides right and putting more distance between herself and the rest of the fleet as she approached Southampton . |
| 5 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |
| 6 | ‘ We can all put photographs , pictures and words together and create some sort of image . ’ |
| 7 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 8 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 9 | The Whitby line , another which has been the subject of closure worries , will serve shoppers better and has new connections at Grosmont for the North York Moors Railway . |
| 10 | But I think even if you 're familiar with computers generally and have good keyboard skills that 's |
| 11 | Most fishermen operating in offshore waters will have to use the devices immediately ; those fishing inshore or using smaller boats will have to use them within two years . |
| 12 | The child had to take the card home and get different fabric cuttings from her or his Mum . |
| 13 | Diana drafted her reply carefully and made several attempts at matching the frosty tone which Philip had used in his . |
| 14 | Teachers working in the three phases of education ( primary , middle , secondary ) seem to have experienced the review differently and have different attitudes towards it and towards SSE in general . |
| 15 | Selling computers well and producing baked beans efficiently are functions of skill , not of personality . |
| 16 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 17 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 18 | Nine Standards is the name given to a line of ancient piles of stones , nine in all , built into large cairns by forgotten men centuries ago and adding great distinction to a bleak moorland plateau . |
| 19 | At a strained board meeting held on 18 June , four days before take-off , Douglas Paul 's report on the reservations situation was read out and it was agreed that Fields should leave the Woodstock Street offices immediately and relinquish personal control of the reservations . |
| 20 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 21 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 22 | Educated women seem to be at a particular disadvantage because they are expected , and expect themselves , to accept the loss gracefully and suppress irrational feelings associated with a process which is not unlike mourning . |
| 23 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |
| 24 | THE INDIGO Girls are so … well … um , inoffensive they should be presenting Play Away or running musical workshops for the under fives . |
| 25 | Introduction of a bactericide alters the natural balance by killing off residents and transients indiscriminately and replaces natural defences with a chemical residual activity . |
| 26 | Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places . |
| 27 | With likes of Ken Wright , Roger Gould and Enrique Rodriguez ( nice bow tie , Rico ) , they threw the beer cans away and ran some beauts . |
| 28 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 29 | But companies not using the equipment properly nor designing safe processes could pose hazards for their workers . ’ |
| 30 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |