Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consumer must accept that , with organic systems , some fruits and vegetables will not look perfect and they will continue to be more expensive because organic farming is more labour intensive and the land usually produces lower yields than conventionally farmed land . |
| 2 | These had already had a brief clash with the German destroyers and now headed north with the MGB were MLs 5 and 15 , but ML 15 had to be abandoned . |
| 3 | I had , after all , accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour . |
| 4 | Bees pollinated frequently and with large loads but generally promoted geitonogamy , whereas butterflies pollinated less often and with smaller loads but usually cross pollinated ; flies pollinated infrequently , with small loads and generally promoted geitonogamy . |
| 5 | Some have suffered from high inflation rates and political coups which have undermined the population 's confidence in domestic currencies and thereby encouraged investment in non-productive gold coins or jewellery . |
| 6 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |
| 7 | No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box . |
| 8 | Instead , it tended to push up wage scales in unionized industries and subsequently pushed inflation even higher . |
| 9 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 10 | The picture which emerges is one where there was a good deal of casual crudity and the occasional fight between individuals or small groups but little orchestrated rowdyism or violence . |
| 11 | Bees pollinated frequently and with large loads but generally promoted geitonogamy , whereas butterflies pollinated less often and with smaller loads but usually cross pollinated ; flies pollinated infrequently , with small loads and generally promoted geitonogamy . |
| 12 | American ornithologists had more practical concerns that soon attracted government funding . |
| 13 | The latter had a mere twelve members but nevertheless carried weight in a situation where the Callaghan government was in a technical minority in the House and in danger of imminent defeat . |
| 14 | The architect asked one of his closest friends , the painter William Nicholson , to decorate the classic proportions and deeply coved ceiling of the upper hall . |
| 15 | The specific reason for the arrival of 252 Squadron was to provide long-range protection for a fast merchant vessel — the S.S. ‘ Parracombe ’ — on its way from Gibraltar , unescorted , carrying 21 crated Hurricanes and much needed cargo for the island , and also for a convoy of five fast freighters for Alexandria ( ‘ Tiger ’ convoy ) due to pass the island several days hence . |
| 16 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 17 | Funding was broadly divided between federal programmes and locally raised bond issue finance . |
| 18 | The result — we have beautiful new homes and centrally heated redundancy ! |
| 19 | A TEXAN dude that 's big in France and Germany , apparently , but this record ai n't gon na light up the rest of the west with its plodding , straight-forward observations and predictably worn voicebox . |
| 20 | Toothed jaws are certainly effective at removing flesh , and stingless bees have other features that probably helped carrion dependence to evolve — their aggressive behaviour , which drives away other scavenging insects , and the use of pheromone scents to organise mass recruitment to newly located food sources . |
| 21 | Add two dollars for freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 22 | Without denying the accountability/ control/patronage problems which accompany this form of governmental organization , the survival of the species suggests that governments themselves see a continuing role for non-departmental public bodies , particularly when faced with politically hostile local authorities and bureaucratically organized government departments which may frustrate central government policy priorities . |
| 23 | With so many royal portraits and closely argued catalogue entries based on unpublished material in the Royal archives , the text is a diamond mine of information for biographers and historians . |
| 24 | One favourite Victorian theme was that of the dying gipsy child , who at the last hour was found by Christian children and so found salvation . |
| 25 | The dry/treated hair variant is particularly good for revitalising lacklustre locks and chemically treated hair that 's lost its shine . |
| 26 | The import companies , Guinness Import Company in the USA and Guinness Import Company ( Canada ) , have benefited from intelligent acquisitions and subsequently strengthened brand portfolios . |