Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box insulates and prevents too rapid a rise or fall in water temperature , and the blanket assists this . |
| 2 | Next , check that the pins are clean and bright ; clean any that show signs of discolouration or charring with wire wool ( an old Brillo pad is ideal ) . |
| 3 | ( 21 ) Performing or listening to period music . |
| 4 | It would be a misnomer , he claims , to describe something as conversion which was effected by fear or prompted by material gain . |
| 5 | After a further 24–48-h incubation at 37°C , cells were either collected for protein extraction or used for anion efflux measurements . |
| 6 | He had got restlessly to his feet and was leaning over the green wooden railing that came to waist height at the edge of the veranda , but after a suppressed exclamation he wheeled to face his sister again . |
| 7 | ‘ We cut through the crap that exists in ski teaching . ’ |
| 8 | Last Friday the same fifteen ran in thirty one points against Transvaal … in all there are seven changes to the side that lost to West hartlepool in the last league game … tomorrow they ca n't afford to break … it 's got to be win or bust . |
| 9 | They should continue to seek solutions for the needs of the servide that take into account equality in opportunity and education rather than just short term financial considerations . |
| 10 | From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs . |
| 11 | Speaking on implementing the guidelines laid down by the fifth plenum , government spokesperson Yuan Mu said on Nov. 22 : " The main problem behind the many mistakes which have occurred in China in the past lies within the party and it is therefore necessary first to focus attention on the party itself in solving the problem " ( of " dilution and weakening of party leadership , neglect of ideological and political work , and neglect of the building of party style " ) . |
| 12 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 13 | Quickies — Mindmaps Plus — a program to structure your thinking and help with problem solving and decision making . |
| 14 | The observed differences in the prevalence of retinopathy and need for laser treatment between these two groups remained significant . |
| 15 | An intact skin protects the internal structures from water loss and assists in temperature regulation . |
| 16 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 17 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 18 | The addition of salbutamol caused a roughly parallel fall in plasma potassium concentration and increase in heart rate , tremor amplitude , and QTc interval confirming a largely additive effect ; the dose response curves for salbutamol seemed to converge at higher doses . |
| 19 | The specimens were fixed overnight in neutral buffered 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin wax . |
| 20 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 21 | Ghislaine , 30 , booked the £2,515 flight from Heathrow Airport last Wednesday through a New York travel agent and paid by credit card . |
| 22 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 23 | Amid the hue and cry about carbon monoxide ( from coal gasification ) competing with oil as a source of petrochemical feedstocks , a bizarre feature of carbon monoxide chemistry has gone unnoticed in the scientific literature . |
| 24 | But a man who makes his living playing black music suddenly sporting the flag waved on every Nazi march AND toying with skin imagery ( and like or not , lads , the crop and boots HAVE been adopted by Nazis in the USA and Europe ) AND writing ambiguous lyrics about an issue which brooks no ambiguity AND making idiotic remarks about blacks and black music in interviews AND hankering ( in a curiously middle aged manner à la Gary Numan ) after a nice , homogenous ‘ England ’ that never actually existed AND refusing to defend or explain himself — ALL that means , at the very least , that he 's got a case to answer , surely ? |
| 25 | Weight the bird ; transfer to a rack in a roasting tin and cover with aluminium foil . |
| 26 | It causes the wake to increase in width and decrease in velocity deficit with distance downstream . |
| 27 | They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast . |
| 28 | The enemy cunningly avoided direct confrontation and concentrated on guerrilla warfare . |
| 29 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 30 | Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism . |