Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTTISH educationists rarely disparage the ‘ trendy , progressive ’ teaching methods so maligned south of the Border . |
| 2 | The tree-lined city embankments , riverside walkways and yuppiefied warehouse flats soon gave way to deserted shipyards . |
| 3 | Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies . |
| 4 | IMPERIAL Chemical Industries yesterday revealed details of the largest restructuring in UK corporate history together with a shock £949 million provision to cover that and environmental costs . |
| 5 | Accused persons were automatically excluded from longevity treatment , and , since the Imperial law courts often took years over a complex case , the effects of the irreversible ageing process were usually apparent . |
| 6 | Each week 800 council employees voluntarily contributed 50p from their wages of which 31p was paid to an insurance company which paid out £2,750 upon death . |
| 7 | Each week 800 council employees voluntarily contributed 50p from their wages of which 31p was paid to an insurance company which paid out £2,750 upon death . |
| 8 | Many pit brow lasses also did stints in Wigan mills , but they 're nostalgic for the hard , rough and often bitterly cold pit brow . |
| 9 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 10 | Indian border guards again opened fire on Pakistani civilians on Feb. 11 after a small group had crossed the line of control at Chakhoti , in the Uri sector . |
| 11 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 12 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 13 | SDLP and Alliance delegations both had talks with the Stormont security chief yesterday . |
| 14 | The major limb bones also showed signs of erosion , particularly of prominent ridges and crests , but breakage did not occur until very advanced stages of abrasion when the bone was worn right through across a prominence , and this only occurred after the bones were extensively rounded . |
| 15 | Trade unionists increasingly saw underconsumption as the cause of stagnant trade , for , as the manifesto of the woollen textile workers stated on the eve of the 1925 textile lock-out : ‘ There is no greater fallacy today than to think we could get back to prosperity by reducing wages . ’ |
| 16 | We can hardly resist the conclusion that the parish officers only had recourse to the policy of subsidizing wages wherever the attraction of urban industry made itself felt too weakly , leaving a pool of surplus manpower and substandard wages . |
| 17 | Teesdale district councillors yesterday rejected plans for a house and double garage within the grounds of Etherley Lodge , near Bishop Auckland , because it was felt they would have an adverse effect on appearance and character of the the Lodge . |
| 18 | It is not the intention of this book to examine towns , but from the ninth century onwards , trade and commerce and the associated industrial and craft activities increasingly took place in or were controlled by towns . |
| 19 | BBC television 's Brass Tacks subsequently featured Debbie in a programme exposing the inadequacy of the rehabilitation facilities available to Britons with brain injury . |
| 20 | Manufacturing companies there boosted output by 8 per cent last year , and staff by 3.5 per cent — almost 20,000 jobs . |
| 21 | If your supplier conditions newly arrived fish before offering them for sale you will usually avoid problems once the fish are transferred to your aquarium . |
| 22 | Suddenly , the circumstantial shackles are banished and this hirsute foursome wings scarcely precedented amounts of beauty and pathos from their thunderous psycho-grunge blueprint . |
| 23 | Government forces then laid seige to the building and , after a standoff of several hours , there was a four-hour gun-battle which culminated in the storming of the hotel . |
| 24 | Those eating less for health reasons now represented 46pc of the total , whereas those stating financial reasons dropped to 18pc from 26p c in 1990 . |
| 25 | HOSPITAL consultants yesterday won permission in the High Court for a judicial review of the Government 's right to spend money on its health service shake-up in advance of legislation . |
| 26 | These youth centres increasingly became targets of Israeli harassment and closure . |
| 27 | HEALTH watchdogs yesterday welcomed news of a vital body scanner soon to be installed at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 28 | The first two training colleges also had schools for deaf children attached to them , and teachers ' certificates were awarded to students who taught on the oral system to the exclusion of any other method . |
| 29 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 30 | County councillors yesterday gave permission for every roundabout to be given an official identity , if possible that of the name already used locally . |