Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Annett ( 1975 ) the incidence of left or right sided speech representation among sinistrals should be considered a function of the proportion of sinistrals in the population at large . |
| 2 | Pupils will also enjoy performing simple period music ( playing medieval music on recorders and percussion instruments , for instance , or perhaps performing negro spirituals in a lesson about slavery ) . |
| 3 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 4 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 5 | For example , Vernon ( 1971 ) defined a multinational to be a firm with wholly or partly owned production facilities in a minimum of six foreign countries . |
| 6 | Australia The states of Victoria and Western Australia and the Capital Territory have passed laws eliminating or severely restricting tobacco advertising since 1987 . |
| 7 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
| 8 | When the target atom in an XPS experiment is in a gas-phase molecule , the ejected photoelectron can escape freely , though even here it may lose some energy as it departs , exciting or even ionizing valence electrons in the process . |
| 9 | It managed to either maintain or even extend market share within its trade sectors , but lower margins and volume declines led to a fall against 1991 . |
| 10 | With a gang of laddish stooges grooving alongside to encourage him , Barry continued to lord it over the stage , munching an apple whilst reclining against the drum riser or simply feigning sleep flat on his back . |
| 11 | Have a knife handy to cut away any really old slings which are badly bleached or frayed , or else exhibit scorch marks from the friction of the ropes of previous parties . |
| 12 | And the increasing use of charters in lawcourts naturally created an incentive to forge , as those who had lost or never enjoyed documentary proof of their rights strove to make good the deficiency . |
| 13 | furthermore , patients who were obese , or actively having weight reduction at the time when the primary gall stones developed might , on achieving ideal body weight , no longer suffer this risk factor . |
| 14 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 15 | The only possible gaff was when he picked up than so called back pass at spurs . |
| 16 | The fact that many more men resembled Dustin than ever resembled film stars like Cary Grant or Gary Cooper was irrelevant . |
| 17 | A second possible source of reactive oxygen species is the xanthine oxidase pathway in colonocytes that also produces superoxide anions by conversion of xanthine/hypoxanthine to uric acid . |
| 18 | ICI 's ‘ Melinar ’ business has developed a new grade of PET that now allows plastic bottles to be refilled and reused . |
| 19 | ‘ Thus the groups countered the social alienation that often divides cancer patients from their well-meaning but anxious family and friends , ’ they write . |
| 20 | The Hereford is probably the most numerous and widely distributed beef breed in the world . |
| 21 | So Vaughan contented herself with training as a nurse and avidly reading food books in her spare time . |
| 22 | Brazauskas was elected president of the Seimas and thereby acting state President on Nov. 25 . |
| 23 | By imposing a very high cost of borrowing , the Chancellor hopes to reduce our willingness to accept any more bank credit and thereby limit credit creation by the banks . |
| 24 | The objectives of the Unit as laid out in its constitution are as follows : to undertake industrial relations research of a long-term multidisciplinary character ; to contribute towards improving the quality of data and of understanding that is available for industrial relations policy-making by government , employers and trade unions ; to provide for a concentration of resources and continuity of work and thereby improve career opportunities for research workers and facilitate large-scale research projects ; to enhance the quality of industrial relations teaching and research activity of the School of Industrial and Business Studies ; to be a national and international centre for industrial relations research and to attract suitable visiting researchers and research students to the University . |
| 25 | Babies born preterm are likely to lack surfactant — a material that covers the surface of the lung , lowering surface tension in the alveolus and thereby preventing lung collapse on breathing out . |
| 26 | Sanders had been a Whip and a specialist in franchise matters before the war , so his return to Westminster gave an added impetus to the party campaign against the Bill ; he became a sort of unofficial party Whip against a government that the party supported , cooperated closely with George Younger , by this time Party Chairman , and eventually became deputy chairman of the party himself in 1918 . |
| 27 | Plenty of stowage for groceries and effectively fiddled worktop areas in the neat galley |
| 28 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 29 | Instead , stretch , curl up and slowly reach sitting position by pressing the palm of your hands on the floor , keeping your chin down , touching your throat . |
| 30 | This process confirms the belief that many of the difficulties can not be resolved by teachers in their classrooms and so require specialist services in a specialist context . |