Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 2 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 3 | Their report shows that you 're most likely to fall ill visiting Egypt , Gambia , Turkey and Latin America , while 18 per cent of Spanish holiday-makers suffer from some kind of lurgy . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Margined and non-margined contracts : Specific rules relate to margined contracts . |
| 5 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 6 | The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) . |
| 7 | It follows that in order to understand the efficacy of political parties or the ways in which political forms relate to everyday experience , account must be taken of the appropriate political discourses . |
| 8 | That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 9 | In most African countries , government involvement in , and even supervision of , the press may not rest on such ideological precepts : sound pragmatic and economic reasons exist for that involvement . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 11 | Private schools spend on average £56 per pupil per year on equipment . |
| 12 | SCOTS HOMES SELL LIKE HOT CAKES |
| 13 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 14 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 15 | But while dilution of a national curriculum to the lowest common denominator of the poor , isolated rural school is clearly ludicrous , the reality must be faced that poor rural schools exist in large numbers and that a curriculum policy needs to be framed with them in mind — which it very rarely is . |
| 16 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 17 | Commercial shipments start in one year 's time . |
| 18 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 19 | Symbols and echoes of celebrated canvases vie with original designs and lush flourishes to create an aesthete 's garden of earthly delights . |
| 20 | Experimentation has begun to yield results , instrumental groups flourish in some churches , and the standards of playing and performance are certainly higher than they were even five years ago . |
| 21 | Since fewer than ten English harpsichords survive from this period it was therefore something of a rarity , and quite obviously a highly prized and valuable acquisition . |
| 22 | These strange elusive birds indulge in extravagant display flights during the breeding season . |
| 23 | Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave . |
| 24 | The crackpot halfway-house idea of the Labour party , in which Scottish institutions look after Scottish affairs and Scottish Members of Parliament dabble in English affairs , would be unacceptable to the people of England . |
| 25 | Particularly in complex industrial societies , different groups specialize in particular activities . |
| 26 | Isabel Emmett has referred to the formal and informal mechanisms of selection as the ‘ social filter in the leisure field ’ , allowing different groups access to different facilities , more or less easily . |
| 27 | The strategy would be to find that different objects fall at different rates and , likely as not , determine that two variables were mainly responsible — size and the shape of each object . |
| 28 | Two contrasting reasons exist for these importations . |
| 29 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 30 | 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 . |