Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
2 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
3 | Such fiction marches happily with political impassivity and an acquiescence in things as they are . |
4 | However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon . |
5 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
6 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
7 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
8 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
9 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
10 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
11 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
12 | The government on Sept. 24 granted foreign institutions permission to invest directly in all stock market operations . |
13 | High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing . |
14 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
15 | A decision to go ahead with this approach to the formation of a company file was taken in January this year and the initial test files became available during April . |
16 | Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans . |
17 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
18 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
19 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
20 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
21 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
22 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
23 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
24 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
25 | Recall that constructivism refers only to mental representations at the level of the input systems , as entities which can be translated , more or less directly , into the language of neuropsychology . |
26 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
27 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
28 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
29 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
30 | From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis . |