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 | Preliminary results indicate that an assessment instrument which links specific aims and the actions necessary to achieve them can help to overcome this problem . |
| 5 | At very high frequencies difficulties arise through the skin effect which restricts current flow to a region near the surface of a conducting medium . |
| 6 | But against that , a version of Hendrix 's ‘ Manic Depression ’ is a cerebral card trick which warrants polite applause and scant gut reaction . |
| 7 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
| 8 | The department staff are engaged in a series of major field research projects which generate varied research opportunities for postgraduate students . |
| 9 | This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members . |
| 10 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Cowboy ’ alert A WARNING has been issued by Dyfed 's trading standards department about itinerant tarmac and building contractor gangs who charge inflated prices . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The walls of these are thick with blood vessels which absorb gaseous oxygen . |
| 19 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 20 | Liz Earle 's book Vital Oils ( Ebury Press , £6.99 ) features a healthy eating plan which replaces saturated fats with pure , unprocessed oils — testers found their scalps became less flaky and , in some cases , dandruff cleared up . |
| 21 | At last it has been recognised that there are many females within the club scene who have true potential . |
| 22 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 23 | Until recently SRC had been owned and operated by Gerald Bull , a Canadian artillery expert who had close links with the Iraqi regime , being a friend of Brig. -Gen . |
| 24 | Do research assistants count as academic persons ( and should they be entitled to publish as freely as the research directors who carry contractual responsibilities for their research activities ) ? |
| 25 | Smaller firms in the UK are more vulnerable to takeovers because of the existence of a sophisticated Stock Exchange which encourages small companies to raise finance by being floated on the unlisted markets . |
| 26 | Following the interesting article by Andy Fairgrieve on the realities of high speed skiing I enclose calculated curves which give the order of speeds attained by normal unstreamlined skiers in relation to the distance skied , in a straight line , down slopes at various angles , at about 6,000ft altitude . |
| 27 | Each year the department publishes a postgraduate prospectus which contains full details of the degree courses offered , brief information about research work , lists of staff members and lists of students and their projects . |
| 28 | This has walls thick with blood capillaries which absorb gaseous oxygen . |
| 29 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 30 | Africans received laws , fines and even imprisonment for certain agricultural and pastoral practices ( and the other restrictions which enabled Europeans to realise their economic interests of the day ) , while European settlers received physical infrastructure , loans , and an agricultural extension service backed by research stations which researched commercial crops for commercial farmers . |