Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 2 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 3 | PARAMILITARY police fired shots and sealed off Panama 's opposition headquarters yesterday , locking former presidential candidate Guillermo Endara inside for two hours after opposition leaders held a press conference to deny involvement in prior knowledge of Tuesday 's failed coup attempt . |
| 4 | The Novena , a prayer that is said daily for nine days as Christmas draws near , is part of the religious side . |
| 5 | Together with such services as health , roads and transport , law and order and housing , it falls within a category of spending programmes known as the Scottish Block . |
| 6 | Parental expectations and girls ' ‘ fear of success ’ would go into the affective/attitudinal/social group together with such factors as lack of confidence , differences in the perceived importance of mathematics , peer group pressures and so on . |
| 7 | It is a complex carbohydrate and consists of starches and fibre bound up together in such things as bread , potatoes , fruit , vegetables , nuts and pulses . |
| 8 | Oral rehydration therapy ( ORT ) is hailed as the answer to diarrhoeal disease : a ‘ solution ’ which helps take attention away from such causes as poverty , malnutrition and lack of clean water supplies . |
| 9 | Most academic teaching posts in universities ( but not public sector higher education ) have traditionally been offered on a ‘ tenured ’ basis , so that academic staff can lose their job only on grounds of professional misconduct ( and not on such grounds as redundancy or financial exigency ) . |
| 10 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 11 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 12 | Each of the PCR products was sequenced either directly with specific oligonucleotides as sequencing primers using 32 P-dATP or subcloned into pCR-1000 vector ( Invitrogen ) and the plasmid DNA containing the different inserts from each of the PCR analysis were sequenced using M13 forward and reverse primers or specific primers as described above . |
| 13 | But many of today 's hunts are motivated far more by commercial interests than subsistence needs . |
| 14 | It also produced wood for charcoal burning — the only fuel used extensively for industrial activities before coal became more intensively mined and more widely available . |
| 15 | Rather it means the extension of a longstanding trend whereby council houses have generally been built in either Kirkwall or Stromness , and in a sense the opening up of new opportunities since council houses are now more readily available than they were before . |
| 16 | Of course , children also like such things as jelly , ice cream , biscuits and chocolate . |
| 17 | Later Jonathan Ross and ITN anchorwoman Fiona Armstrong pop up with Fantastic Facts while comedy plays will feature former EastEnder Leslie Grantham with Bread 's Jonathan Morris . |
| 18 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 19 | Such policies include not only those on social care , where the contribution of informal networks is most obvious , but also on such matters as town planning and housing management , where the implications of sustaining existing networks or encouraging new ones may still not be sufficiently acknowledged . |
| 20 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
| 21 | This will depend partly on such factors as limitation of numbers , the nature of the binding and the standing of the illustrators ; and partly on the fact that , with many presses , all the magic of the crafts , predictably or unpredictably , comes together in certain books and they produce masterpieces , minor or major . |
| 22 | You will find out about these things as time goes on . |
| 23 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 24 | Pro-marketeers of a social democratic type have been prepared to manage markets : restricting the area of their use ( keeping them out of such things as health care ) ; moderating their tendency to generate inequality , ( by policies of income redistribution ) ; and preserving some of the market 's industrial casualties by nationalizing bankrupt firms and industries . |
| 25 | Three Polish prisoners were killed when riots broke out in five jails after parliament excluded habitual offenders from an amnesty . |
| 26 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 27 | Challenge tests should always be carried out on stored samples before stability clearance is given , in order to ensure that the product continues to have an effective preservative system . |
| 28 | If , on the other hand , the ambiguous segments were and , followed by kiss would probably win out over such competitors as kick , kitsch , etc and give , Gish , etc . |
| 29 | Of this , 250 or so is taken up with lighting , leaving a little over 3,000 watts for water heating . |
| 30 | Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady . |