Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 2 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 3 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 4 | Second , educational research operates under the same principles as the rest of the service : for example , codes of practice in relation to gender , race or social class must be strictly adhered to . |
| 5 | In other words , in an oligopolistic framework , the non-equivalence between an optimal tariff and a quota arises since the latter changes the behaviour of the competing firms . |
| 6 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 7 | The magazine BOMB , no. 5 , 1983 , includes both a full-page black and white advertisement in which Sherman models Issey Miyake clothes , somewhat in the guise of a wrongly strung marionette , and — elsewhere in the magazine — a personal picture in which Sherman appears in the same clothes as an exotic , diva-like force . |
| 8 | If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin . |
| 9 | The directive deals with the same matters with respect to credit institutions that the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives dealt with for the generality of companies . |
| 10 | There is evidence of individual learned behaviour patterns , such as for instance barn owls which roost in caves and which predate bat roosts in the same caves . |
| 11 | These sources include articles and official statements published in ACCOUNTANCY , course and conference notes from the few delegates that still attend external training , and letters and reports already produced within the firm as part of normal client service work . |
| 12 | Laurens van der Post thinks along the same lines . |
| 13 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 14 | The value of stored documentation increases with the more things you acquire in life . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course we thought about political problems , but everyone in Israel suffers from the same ones , ’ says Igor , a railway engineer studying at the Mevasseret ulpan . |
| 17 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 18 | What we have tried to show here is that in this respect linguistic behaviour conforms to the same principles as the other patterns of social behaviour that have been studied by anthropologists . |
| 19 | Pam Nelson may not yet be a household name but if this young American progresses in the same manner as previous Pilkington Glass U.21 Champions Steffi Graf , Arantxa Sanchez , Jana Novotna and Manuela Maleeva , then it will not be long before her name appears in the latter stages of the world 's leading tournaments . |
| 20 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 21 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 22 | Evaluating the effects of regional policy bristles with the same difficulties as the evaluation of any other large-scale government policy . |
| 23 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 24 | Steve Richardson passes on a few tips on how to lower your scores by improving your on-course tactics . |
| 25 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 26 | Matches to be sandwiched during County Championship matches against the same opponents . |
| 27 | Somewhat anomalously , reference may even be made to later statutes , to see the meaning that Parliament puts on the same words in a similar context . |
| 28 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 29 | The TM operates on the same principles as the MSS , but it has a ground resolution or pixel size of 30 x 30 m rather than 57 x 79 m , and it records ground reflection in six , not four , wavebands . |
| 30 | Further important subsurface information comes from the several boreholes put down in the search for coal by the Department of Commerce on the advice of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland . |