Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 2 | James Allan flies economically with the air-minded Kiwis . |
| 3 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 4 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 5 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 6 | The importance of these variations in children 's use of classroom time lies less in the precise quantifications than the questions they provoke . |
| 7 | Entry to the degree alternates annually between the co-operating institutions . |
| 8 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 9 | This owes much to the static profits expectations . |
| 10 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 11 | This branch of medicine owes much to the pioneering efforts of Marjorie Warren who demonstrated that , with proper assessment and rehabilitation , many of the elderly in these chronic sick establishments could be returned to independent living . |
| 12 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 13 | The existing common law on breach of the peace has been continuously expanded so that it now adds greatly to the non-statutory powers of the police to restrict peaceful assembly ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | Women 's employment rate declines steeply during the 15 years preceding their state pensionable age , in spite of the fact that childcare responsibilities are rare . |
| 15 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 16 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 17 | On the west the present-day boundary between Bosnia and the Dalmatian region of Croatia corresponds roughly to the historic boundaries of Roman Dalmatia , and later of the Venetian and Ottoman empires . |
| 18 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 19 | One of the richest and most ancient human civilisations lies today at the cultural roots of the world 's most economically vibrant region . |
| 20 | It is of course an external system , well over 150000 light-years away , and it is sheer coincidence that it lies almost behind the two globulars , 47 Tucanæ and NGC 362 . |
| 21 | We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming . |
| 22 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 23 | While declaring that she is ‘ on neither one side or the other ’ , your correspondent clearly feels that the blame for the conflict and the consequent damage to the school reputation lies firmly with the campaigning parents . |
| 24 | The choice lies essentially between the following groups : |
| 25 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 26 | This commonly results in the loss of the corneo-retinal potential , a standing potential difference of the order of one tenth of a volt across the back of the eyeball which contributes largely to the measurable changes in potential on the face resulting from eye movements in sighted people . |
| 27 | • In the chill of Winter the Yew Fairy sits dreamily amidst the waxen berries . |
| 28 | The specimen occurs in a fine-grained limestone , one which fortunately splits easily around the enclosed fossils . |
| 29 | As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted . |
| 30 | Whether nurses would come under the arrangements identified in the White Paper depends entirely on the contractual arrangements that they make with their employers . |