Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silent serial recall of similar-sounding words ( homophones ) or signs sharing the same handshape ( non-homophones in English ) was used as a base for considering the effect of overt rehearsal either in sign ( into sign ) , or in words ( into words ) . |
| 2 | This presents no problem if the seller has a certificate or certificates representing the precise amount sold to a single buyer . |
| 3 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 4 | In individual cases there may be the possibility of specific characteristics or expectations playing an important role in causing temporary discrepancies between those prices indicated by the model and those set by the market . |
| 5 | One starts with communities of monks or canons or clerics serving a wide area from their church , until aristocrats founded small churches , served by one priest , on their estates , probably from a mixture of religious , social , and economic motives . |
| 6 | Finally it is worth remembering that general SVQs can be taken alongside other ‘ extra ’ modules , such as foreign languages , or modules requiring a higher level of competence . |
| 7 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 8 | The Northern Ireland Office would normally have ignored the moves by Jill Knight and Ian Paisely knowing that matters affecting a public corporation , such as the Housing Executive , could not be raised in Parliament and that , in lethargic Ulster , the matter would soon be forgotten . |
| 9 | Child also advised putting water in the barrier moat , as is done in Africa , so that elephants butting the electric fence get a stronger shock . |
| 10 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 11 | Rather like the BCCI crash here in England , I learned the hard way that organisations offering the highest return on investments also carried the highest risk , though I had thought building societies were safe from such problems . |
| 12 | Subsequently these conclusions have been challenged , it being pointed out that experiments involving the rapid heating and cooling of small individual rocks do not accurately re-create field conditions . |
| 13 | Your article , Antenatal Tests , did not mention that mothers expecting a multiple birth are usually advised against having amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling . |
| 14 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 15 | It is something of a puzzle , therefore , that others using the flavour-aversion procedure ( Best , Gemberling , and Johnson 1979 ; Kaye , Swietalski , and Mackintosh 1988 b ) should have been able to demonstrate an attenuation of latent inhibition . |
| 16 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 17 | Consequently he assumed that tribes possessing the classificatory kinship system , even if now separate and speaking different languages , must once have shared a common origin . |
| 18 | It has 66 courses and 75 hotels , motels and condominiums offering a wide selection of accommodation , with all sorts of deals for the visiting golfer . |
| 19 | The term is usually restricted to nouns and adjectives accompanying a direct object : Have I made this clear ? ; |
| 20 | There are so many other causes and sponsorships chasing the same money . |
| 21 | And rules prohibiting the commercial use of some products that the plant was designed to produce have not been rescinded . |
| 22 | These changes were of particular symbolic importance for moral entrepreneurial groups , and brought into sharp relief what appeared to be the declining importance of certain social arrangements concerning the family , and certain moral ideals and values affecting the social significance of Christianity . |
| 23 | If he wanted to , he could be a real show-off : ‘ My Own Private Catastrophe ’ is pure restraint , feedback and harmonics adding a peculiar tension to the track , whereas the apocalyptic ‘ Sever ’ has him seeming to invent a new ‘ Semtex ’ effects pedal . |
| 24 | There is no place for surgical scrub solutions or other antiseptic solutions , as they damage the cells of the wound as well as those in the blood and other natural cells and secretions helping the normal process of repair . |
| 25 | Physically , he was stiff and tense , the muscles in his back and shoulders resisting the comforting embrace of the padded flight couch . |
| 26 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 27 | The woods and walks surrounding the old Sussex manor house are peopled by children who died young ; the visitor , who is the narrator , is aware of them , but can not actually see them ; his hostess , who is vividly aware of the children 's presence , is blind . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , as successful communication involves the transfer of information , and that transfer presupposes a successful evaluation of what is known and not known at the outset , a number of general suggestions have been made by theorists and methodologists advocating a communicative approach . |
| 29 | The Yearbook of International Organizations ( Union of International Associations , 1988–9 ) lists thousands of bodies classified as : federations of international organizations , universal membership organizations , inter-continental membership organizations , regionally defined membership organizations , organizations emanating from places , persons and other bodies , and organizations having a special form , including foundations and funds . |
| 30 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |