Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 32 | The colour lasts up to five washes and a 100ml bottle gives between 12 and 15 applications . |
| 33 | Clynol Stylewave Gel ( for your nearest salon 'phone ) lasts up to six weeks and also allows you or your hairdresser to tame difficult-to-style sections of your hair . |
| 34 | Now he steps out on beer-stained carpets and decaying floor-boards , but the conviction remains as strong . |
| 35 | Degrees are still however conferred by the Chancellor , whose title dates back to pre-Reformation days and whose authority is represented by the University Mace . |
| 36 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 37 | The thrice-married father-of-seven now wears a blonde wig and struts around in high heels and slinky skirts . |
| 38 | But runs on with just rhythm and clear notes , and as counterpart |
| 39 | Erm it 's a simple flow system , raw material comes in at one end and flows through the plant , through the machining areas , through the assembly , and the new product , the finished product comes out the end . |
| 40 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 42 | But whenever I try to lead a normal life , like anyone else of my age , he comes along with another job and more work . |
| 43 | And it all comes over in hard black and white in his report to me , and I 've really only got what he says to go on , in that sort of case . |
| 44 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 45 | Nor is this influence obvious or straightforward , for a major reason why different research comes up with different findings and has different implications for policy and practice is that those findings are subject to different underlying assumptions and have different ideological agendas . |
| 46 | The new series 6000i Model 640 supports up to 32 users and is suitable for small businesses , workgroups and development environments . |
| 47 | The EISA-based System 10000 supports up to 128 users and is rated by the firm at from 27 MIPS to 70 MIPS . |
| 48 | It supports up to 60 people and costs £400 for a starter kit comprising operating software , cabling and two 16-bit boards ; or £200 for the kit including two 8-bit boards . |
| 49 | It also has a new non-upgradable entry model , the 9402 A02 , which supports up to seven workstations and is about £6,000 with OS/400 — available only in the UK , Italy and one or two other European markets — not the US or Japan . |
| 50 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 51 | It arises out of Welsh questions and the Secretary of State for Wales ' answer to the question that he was asked by my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) . |