Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicotine chewing gum helps in more than one way , I explained . |
| 2 | The first spin-off effect arises quite simply because of the difficulty of defining exactly what is a package holiday or tour . |
| 3 | In this way men continue to have remarkably cheap servants and capitalist industry and the state to have the labour force reproduced as cheaply as possible . |
| 4 | And erm chap was quite surprised to find that the bedroom window worked out more than his patio . |
| 5 | The US Fair Credit Reporting Act goes somewhat further than this . |
| 6 | She explained that this figure type suits straight rather than fitted jackets but suggested Pamela avoid short boxy jackets , which would draw attention to her bust . |
| 7 | Considering that closure for Deepcar station came as early as 1959 , the lavatory sign has done well to survive . |
| 8 | But the significance of this terrace solidarity went much further than this . |
| 9 | A recent fashion show , in aid of the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Relief Fund and local Heatherwood Hospital raised no less than £5,500 . |
| 10 | And we actually have more than eight hundred and fifty users of our accounting software installed in more than forty countries worldwide . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 12 | One of the locals volunteered to stand on the end of the little harbour arm to con on out when there was a lull in the surf . |
| 13 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 15 | The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station . |
| 16 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |
| 17 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 18 | The climb rate dropped off noticeably as we reached maximum manifold height for the day and the lack of turbo-charging showed . |
| 19 | Drawn from stock and private sources , including the artist 's family , it comprises landscapes , nudes and flower pictures , and features both a view of a village church painted as early as 1924 and the final picture completed by Hitchens shortly before his death in 1979 . |
| 20 | Local authorities would be obliged to allocate 15 per cent of council housing to people from depressed areas , and in areas where council housing made up less than 20 per cent of housing , the local authority would be obliged to make a 15 per cent contribution to its construction . |
| 21 | ( Part of the reason for this , other than the high initial cost of the hardware , is that film recorders take quite an appreciable time to image the slide whereas a rostrum camera works as fast as the operator can change the artwork . ) |
| 22 | In all subjects , the digestible phase ( omelette ) of the test meal emptied more slowly than the liquid phase and the mean T50 was 2.4 ( 0.38 ) h . |
| 23 | However , there is little doubt that cases of child cruelty occur more often than they are observed . |
| 24 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 25 | Fowler inaugurated the introduction of line production in locomotive repairs , greatly reducing time spent in workshops , and a firm standardization programme to reduce as rapidly as possible the 393 individual locomotive types inherited by the LMS . |
| 26 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 27 | Certainly , the combined effects of continued high interest rates and the poll tax is already being felt by leisure markets , with overall leisure spending growing more modestly than in the past . |
| 28 | Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 . |
| 29 | People might also resist change because of peer group pressure to do so even though , off the record , they may acknowledge the changes as beneficial . |
| 30 | It is often the case that the quality of the documents produced by someone adopting desktop publishing goes down rather than up . |