Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 2 | Some of the companies making this possible are presented in the following pages . |
| 3 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | The weak are bullied by the strong , the little by the big , the pious by the irreligious . |
| 5 | Sale opportunities identified by MAS are matched against the recorded criteria on a reactive basis . |
| 6 | The mechanical response is usually determined at low frequencies and over as wide a temperature range as possible and examples of each are described in the following section . |
| 7 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 8 | Even if those who are living in institutions are excluded , it is estimated that half of old people under 75 and about two-thirds of those over 75 are suffering from a long-standing illness in addition to normal minor ailments . |
| 9 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 10 | Criteria for doing this are developed from the professional knowledge , value base and experience of the practitioner rather than from the policies and constraints of organisations . |
| 11 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 12 | The savings that can be made usually justify the collection of statistics during the life of the file , and some ways of arranging this are described in the next section . |
| 13 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 14 | Everyone recognises that handling such a volume and variety of art-objects provides the perfect training to become a dealer , and when the art market prospers , some are tempted by the financial opportunities of dealing . |
| 15 | Some are fitted to the accessory shoe on the top of camcorders and operate off their own battery supplies . |
| 16 | Some are situated in the old quarter , which is just as colourful by night as it is by day , and have a characteristic local atmosphere . |
| 17 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 18 | Some are based on the total number of dies observed in the sample . |
| 19 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 20 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 21 | Who thought of them can only be imagined , but it is obvious that some are attributed to the physical build or character while others have probably got connections with the work they did , terms which have died with them . |
| 22 | Some are needed for the efficient action of enzymes ; others form essential parts of hormones . |
| 23 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 24 | The policy-making group meets to set the time-scale , to plan the introductory sessions and to agree the questions to form the basis of discussions ; some are suggested in the next section . |
| 25 | Some are associated with the sheer lack of resources to apply to the routines of bookkeeping , billing and chasing debts , assessing and settling VAT and tax liabilities and keeping track of liquidity . |
| 26 | Some are used by the alpine training squads for dry land training . |
| 27 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 28 | 3.2 Module descriptors which have been revised or developed for session 1989–90 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 9 . |
| 29 | The young old are brought within the pale and the rest are left outside ; their needs are perceived as different and marginal to the mainstream development of goods and services . |
| 30 | The nightmare of conductive education is unachievable because nowhere in human history have the different been turned into the normal and neither medical science nor other rehabilitative techniques or educational Interventions can assist in this process . |