Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another set of official statistics showed the price of industrial products was slightly higher last month , although not high enough to affect forecasts of a continuing decline in consumer inflation . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules were introduced in 1984 and were designed to replace the prevailing system of ONCs ( Ordinary National Certificates ) and ONDs ( Ordinary National Diplomas ) which were based on subjects grouped together to give courses in a particular area . |
| 3 | TO MANY people explosions and disaster in Northern Ireland are synonymous , but near Derrylin in County Fermanagh , both the security forces and the local people work together to turn explosives into a profit-making industry . |
| 4 | But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size . |
| 5 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 6 | MP to check if SCSI card fitted , and if not to discuss specifications for a new machine . |
| 7 | Having decided not to use herbicides on a weedy patch , we laid out black plastic to smother the weeds when they grew . |
| 8 | Limitations on missions and targeting , including commitments not to use weapons above a certain yield , or not to use nuclear weapons against centres of population , or in certain geographical areas , may also have an increasing part to play ( Collier , 1979 , p. 41 ) . |
| 9 | For example , a duty to have children , or to limit the number of children one has , a duty not to send children to a private school , or to do so , a duty not to use private health services , or to do so . |
| 10 | The purpose of these tight esses is usually to keep speeds at a safe level , invariably at corners made unsafe by the speed of modern bikes . |
| 11 | Beuno did n't suggest that Elizabeth would be expecting him back , but ate his omelette as casually and thoughtlessly as the squirrel who had moved off to eat nuts in a different hazel tree . |
| 12 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 13 | Businesses which are Prestel information providers will be able to supply information on their products not only to the general public but also to select groups within a particular business or profession , Travel agents , for example , already use the Prestel service extensively . |
| 14 | Editor , — The working party set up to make recommendations on a national standard of entry into general practice seems to have been unaware of European Community directive 86/457/EEC . |
| 15 | It is on the basis of this historical experience of modern social movements , and with the aid of concepts which were introduced in order to understand them , that social scientists and historians have gone on to study movements of a similar kind in other societies and periods ; for example , millenarian movements , peasant rebellions , the actions of ‘ crowds ’ and ‘ mobs ’ . |
| 16 | Alternate keys can be duplicated , unlike primary keys , so that a department code could be an alternate key and allow searches to be carried out to select personnel from a particular department . |
| 17 | Imported will still be arriving though to keep supplies at a reasonable level . |
| 18 | The females who were played the reduced repertories turned out to build nests at a lower rate . |
| 19 | ‘ The Streamline English course has proved that it is one of the best , if not the best , methods on the market today to encourage students with a wide spectrum abilities to build up a fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English . |
| 20 | They are included here to suggest examples of a possible connection between mankind 's first awareness of beautiful things and his evolution , which does not rely on the barren statement that a supernatural ‘ god ’ arranged it all . |
| 21 | Mike was an excellent shot at short and long distances and taught me how to control my weapon , how to change magazines with a simple wrist flick operation , and where it was best to hit a person if you wanted to be sure of incapacitating him . |
| 22 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 23 | To achieve this goal , the NSR Company ( 1978 ) Limited , had promoted the formation of The Churnet Valley Railway plc , primarily to raise funds by a public ordinary share issue . |