Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Girls do n't do it to boys as much as boys do it to girls though do they ? |
2 | His blood-soaked body was still warm when officers found it near the A30 road on Wednesday night . |
3 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
4 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
5 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
6 | The abnormal thinness of the egg shells of many hawks and eagles was evident when ornithologists compared them with carefully dated specimens collected before DDT was invented . |
7 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
8 | Electrical engineer David Schoo , 45 and his 35-year-old wife Sharon were stunned as police put them in handcuffs when their plane landed at Chicago airport . |
9 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |