Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a body corporate which has more than 20 members ( or is the subsidiary of a holding company which has more than 20 members ) and it , or any of its holding companies or subsidiaries has called up share capital or net assets of not less than 500,000 |
| 2 | They observed that birds start to put on weight soon after establishing a territory ( Figure 7.7a ) . |
| 3 | Security sources said that artillery units in the security zone also shelled Lebanese villages 15 km from the Israeli border , in the Iqilm and Toufah areas , where pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalists were believed to be preparing to infiltrate the security zone ; it was reported that Palestinians had set up multibarrel rocket-launchers aimed at Israel there . |
| 4 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 5 | BANBRIDGE Council has been told that anglers have given up fishing at Loughbrickland Lake because the fish stock has been completely destroyed by cormorants . |
| 6 | My television harangued me to buy endless varieties of insecticide and creature-killer , whereas in Bali it is taboo to move into a new home before the geckos and house-spiders have taken up residence first . |
| 7 | If patients wish to give up coffee , it is perhaps not a bad thing . |
| 8 | In fact , Easy Rider was rather slow to catch on but when it finally caught the attention of the counter-culture , even the establishment newspapers and magazines began to offer up praise . |
| 9 | We will not find out why unemployment and heroin use are connected , why large groups of young men and women have taken on heroin use for the first time , or how they get the street money , without talking to them . |
| 10 | Afterwards they went scouting for clays that could be re-used ; some cracked on landing , but others had come down whole . |
| 11 | Interestingly neither of these two people were sociologists , though sociologists have carried out participant studies amongst homosexuals and criminal gangs . |
| 12 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |