Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Australia The states of Victoria and Western Australia and the Capital Territory have passed laws eliminating or severely restricting tobacco advertising since 1987 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The only possible gaff was when he picked up than so called back pass at spurs . |
| 11 | The Hereford is probably the most numerous and widely distributed beef breed in the world . |
| 12 | Brazauskas was elected president of the Seimas and thereby acting state President on Nov. 25 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | SAE ratings are quoted in imperial hp or kW , and generally give peak power for a bare engine . |
| 19 | Per capita GDP fell , on average , 3.8 per cent annually from 1981 to 1984 and scarcely reached zero growth in the latter part of the 1980s . |
| 20 | To ju and just take taxation bit of it . |
| 21 | The Japanese introduced them anyway and thereupon gained market dominance through the much higher quality achieved . |
| 22 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 23 | This nationalisation was an attempt to achieve the socialist objective of common ownership of the means of production and also to facilitate government intervention in the running of the economy . |
| 24 | Niacin aids blood circulation , which means that protein is carried to the muscles more efficiently , and also helps muscle recovery by carrying waste products away more quickly . |
| 25 | The constitution helps to shape politics and also regulates public access to , and the behaviour of , the various institutions of the state ( such as the Cabinet , the House of Commons , the civil service , the military , the judiciary , and the police ) that in their different ways have the right to exercise public power , if necessary through the use of physical force , within the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | The former included the North-West regional diploma in special needs , the first example of a course developed in total partnership between a university and a polytechnic which allowed students to take modules from either institution and also gave credit recognition to specific Open University and LEA courses . |
| 27 | Impactive colour also radiates from the papier mache dishes by Sugs Shelton and similarly modelled pop sculpture of groups of ordinary domestic items by Jon Atkinson . |
| 28 | Many smaller pension funds invest in property unit trusts , some of which specialise in overseas property , and hence gain portfolio diversification in their own portfolios by including property , but also benefit from being diversified in the property market . |
| 29 | If you 're female , 15+ and really hate noise pollution like Bros , Wham ! etc , then why not write to me . |
| 30 | Alternate splicing of fibronectin mRNA is an important process that helps in tissue specific and developmentally regulated gene expression in eukaryotes ( 25,26,38,39 ) . |