Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally a triple-purpose breed , it is often used as a suckler cow which has excellent fertility and calves easily ( the pelvis is unusually wide ) , with enough milk for her fast-growing , early-maturing calf . |
| 2 | Most petrological microscopes can be fitted with photomicrography accessories which allow automatic exposure determination ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 3 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 5 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 6 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 7 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
| 8 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 9 | The ghinocerous part about it is the mega-big way that Citizen Kane have put the title single of their first and latest album on the doorsteps for milk drinkers who want some rhythm and blues with breakfast , in a tape on offer with extra pintas . |
| 10 | Preliminary results indicate that an assessment instrument which links specific aims and the actions necessary to achieve them can help to overcome this problem . |
| 11 | At very high frequencies difficulties arise through the skin effect which restricts current flow to a region near the surface of a conducting medium . |
| 12 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 13 | But against that , a version of Hendrix 's ‘ Manic Depression ’ is a cerebral card trick which warrants polite applause and scant gut reaction . |
| 14 | WHEN a member of a Harlem street gang decides to escape his life of crime by using his DJ skills he receives little support , and the growing tension leads to violence . |
| 15 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
| 16 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 17 | The department staff are engaged in a series of major field research projects which generate varied research opportunities for postgraduate students . |
| 18 | This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members . |
| 19 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 20 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |
| 21 | The unit allows messages of up to 55 characters to be printed and has a repeat function which means repetitive text need not be re-keyed . |
| 22 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 23 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
| 24 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 25 | But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon . |
| 26 | Ms Patti Rundall , of the Baby Milk Action Coalition which opposes unnecessary use of infant formulae , said : ‘ We are delighted with the ruling , but Boots has not been chastened . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Cowboy ’ alert A WARNING has been issued by Dyfed 's trading standards department about itinerant tarmac and building contractor gangs who charge inflated prices . |
| 28 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 29 | Second , the action sequences which constitute social routines may provide the child with the basis for making some initial hypotheses about the relationship between syntax and meaning ( McNamara 1972 ) . |
| 30 | The walls of these are thick with blood vessels which absorb gaseous oxygen . |