Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The USA would vote against any proposed aid or credits from international institutions to which it was a contributor to the states on the list ( Cuba , Iran , Iraq , North Korea , Libya and Syria ) .
2 When looking through windows for evidence it is often the case that the researcher only sees those types of evidence with a significance that has previously been established , and with an association that complies with existing models .
3 The internal cause of the rhythm can be established in the normal manner — by making the intake of food and water , the posture , and environment of the volunteers constant through the 24 hours ( see Fig. 1.3 ) The rhythm that persists in these circumstances indicates that the effect of the body clock and the difference from the normal rhythm is due to external causes .
4 Indeed , there is a desperate shortage of accommodation to rent , especially in urban areas , and the housing stock that exists in these areas is often poorly maintained and badly managed .
5 The fuel card that translates across 26 countries
6 The young people who use the building today are likely to be part of the thriving youth club that operates on four nights of the week .
7 At least method 1 is independent of the units of measurement ( providing they are the same in both years ) but the equal weight that attaches to all commodities can give a misleading figure — if the price of matches falls by 50% and the price of coal rises by 50% the combined index indicates no change .
8 Called LattisCell , the switch is a 16-port stand-alone switch that comes in two configurations .
9 The small body of research that exists on female students in higher education suggests that women in higher education are faced continually with contradiction .
10 They do not want multiple entries of the same plan but an entry that goes beyond 16 games as a single column plan .
11 Its value is still constrained by the wide gap that exists between most econometricians and most managers , whether in client companies or the agencies .
12 Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow .
13 Perhaps this can be seen as a statement of a general condition that obtains for all workers .
14 When a nerve impulse gets there this chemical is released by the nerve terminal , crosses the narrow cleft and reacts with special receptors on the muscle side of the junction , which , when they 're stimulated by this chemical , lead to muscle contraction .
15 Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate .
16 Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case .
17 His review of the law on unofficial action and strikes in essential services was launched during the early summer this year , when a sequence of strikes hit the railways and the London Underground .
18 Excavation has proved impossible but there is a story that hints at great finds .
19 An optional 128Kb secondary cache is available : a small piggyback board that plugs into two sets of pins in the motherboard .
20 Secondly , the requirement of coverage suggests that many specific dictionaries will be inadequate due to their small size and inflexibility when used on text that strays from domain-based patterns .
21 The aim has been to combine the old architecture with new building that relies on traditional materials and a degree of craftsmanship .
22 Other graphics enhancements include a second Power Gt3 two-dimensional adaptor that performs at 650,000 vectors per second .
23 Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services .
24 This is not an income that allows for any luxuries .
25 Most of the literature that deals with indigenous psychologies fails to take into account the possible variations in this respect between not only the sexes , but between other social categories such as chiefs and commoners .
26 In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’
27 A window that opens on vertical hinges .
28 In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers .
29 The pervasiveness of these practices in the past and the desire for healthful spacing that remains among many peoples should be the principle upon which fertility regulation by modern means is introduced .
30 First , it is to assist people to resolve their disputes as easily as possible and , secondly , it should enable the making or declaring of law that applies in those disputes .
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