Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some perennials that are best treated as biennials , such as polyanthus , can also be sown within the next month . |
| 2 | To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor . |
| 3 | There are , however , sub-littoral populations that are not imbricated and imbricata certainly occurs on the shore-notably in Essex and North Kent , England ( Largen , 1971 ) and Kingsport , Nova Scotia , Canada . |
| 4 | The other Met girls , Sheila , Marjorie , Babs , Dora and Jean were all very easy to get on with , and the Met Office was custom built for the job , with benches that were properly lit and stools the right height for us to work from . |
| 5 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 6 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 7 | There are , of course , countless buildings that were purposely designed as pubs , yet many more occupy buildings intended for some other , usually domestic , use . |
| 8 | Well the money would be very welcome at a company that is again finding that computers are a gurgling cash drain , and a single outside investor is very different matter to a host of fractious small shareholders and institutional investors . |
| 9 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 10 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 11 | Books about sex , illustrated guides to love-making , are also popular and are still considered as novelties in a society where such books have rarely been seen before and where sex was a taboo subject . |
| 12 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 13 | All three dated to the third century , and were tentatively identified as shrines , as was the second phase of a nearby rectangular structure . |
| 14 | Slaves , as property , were under the absolute power of their owners ; they could be bought , sold or traded at the whim of the master , and were occasionally awarded as prizes in lotteries , or wagered at gaming tables . |
| 15 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 16 | It survived and is still trading but Gilbey now works from his Norfolk home as marketing manager for Team Lotus . |
| 17 | John , in his Gospel , seems to be following the date set by the Sadducees and is therefore saying that Passover day was on the Sabbath , the day after the crucifixion . |
| 18 | When it opened , the Aldergrove passenger terminal , with its distinctive multi-peaked roof , attracted immediate criticism for being too small and was regularly extended as business blossomed . |
| 19 | L2164 was set on fire , having already been damaged during the previous attack on 7th. , and was ultimately sunk after efforts had been made to tow it ashore . |
| 20 | Aird , was caught in the rigging wires and was nearly drowned until Jack managed to free him . |
| 21 | By the time the main course arrived — an unappetizing leg of chicken in breadcrumbs accompanied by boiled sprouts — Loretta had done a complete U-turn and was fervently hoping that Koogan would consent to lend them a key . |
| 22 | Alix 's mother , broad-minded though she was , did not approve of Catholicism , and was hardly to know that Esther was Jewish . |
| 23 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 24 | The man , curious , looked narrowly at Corbett and was about to refuse until Selkirk showed him Wishart 's sealed warrant . |
| 25 | Fernando frowned and was about to follow when Ruth reached and touched his arm to restrain him . |
| 26 | It is the work of a gaggle of United Nations committees and was initially prepared as background reading for delegates attending last summer 's mammoth Unispace conference organised by the UN in Vienna . |
| 27 | This material had a retention time typical of platelet activating factor during HPLC analysis using phosphatidylcholine , lysophosphatidylcholine , and synthetic platelet activating factor as standards and was further characterised as platelet activating factor on the basis of the following criteria : ( a ) its aggregating activity was suppressed in the presence of 0.1 mM BN 52021 , a specific platelet activating factor receptor antagonist ; ( b ) and after incubation of the samples with 10 µg/ml phospholipase A 2 from hog pancreas ; lipase A1 from R arrhizus 100 µg/ml was without effect . |
| 28 | Opposed by Soviet intellectuals such as writer Valentin Rasputin , if was finally dropped when Gorbachev came to power . |
| 29 | With regard to access to Art as a subject in the school curriculum , the Head of Department pointed out that he and his colleagues made special provision for some pupils , asking it if was generally known that pupils who opted not to do Art ( i.e. whose option choices precluded Art ) could still do it after school as an additional subject and that we do get some of them through ( verified note of meeting ) . |
| 30 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |