Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hernias vary in size from a golf ball to a football and can strike at any age . |
| 2 | The effects are more severe than oxygen depletion and may result in prolonged poor health in your fish . |
| 3 | However , Richard Amos , the youth worker , continues to put considerable effort into the work of the youth club and would welcome with open arms any volunteers to join those already helping . |
| 4 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 5 | It is designed with the business or professional person in mind and will deal with English language relevant and useful to those engaged in day-to-day business life and will aim to provide a high degree of professional competence in English . |
| 6 | It has greater power in certain areas than the House of Representatives , for example the Senate can vet all major presidential appointments to the executive and the judiciary and must concur in any treaties negotiated by the President . |
| 7 | Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect . |
| 8 | The project will adopt a case-study methodology and will focus on scientific studies of the Precambrian . |
| 9 | Barnet joy : Barnet beat the Football League deadline set to guarantee the club 's future and will play in Second Division next season , the League confirmed today . |
| 10 | This work may start early in the day as is local practice and can occur at any time of the season . |
| 11 | It had expertise , powerful allies in the heavy-industry complex and could play on powerful emotions and fears within the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Platelet activating factor decreases with prednisolone therapy and might return to normal concentrations in quiescent patients . |
| 13 | The results obtained in this study indicate that the mucosal platelet activating factor content is considerably increased in patients with acute Crohn 's disease , decreased by glucocorticoid therapy and may return to normal levels in quiescent Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | environmental effect and shall consult with those States at an early stage and in good faith |
| 15 | The decision takes immediate effect and will remove for many workers the threat of reprisal from aggrieved party officials . |
| 16 | Hailing the decision as a major breakthrough , campaigners say it signifies that the tuna-dolphin issue is being taken seriously by British industry and will lead to other negotiations between industry and environmentalists . |
| 17 | Meths stoves , like the popular Trangia , tend to work better in wind and can cope with cold , but you might find the meths a little difficult to light in extreme cold . |
| 18 | The last often reveals the site of functional obstruction and can differentiate among colonic inertia , hindgut dysfunction , and outlet obstruction . |
| 19 | It is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single microbe and can discriminate between live and dead organisms in a matter of 10–15 minutes . |
| 20 | It allows the psychologist to determine whether the subject has detected a change in a stimulus or can discriminate between two stimuli . ) |
| 21 | The plan would protect whales south of latitude 40° South and would run for 50 years with a review after 10 years . |
| 22 | Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes . |
| 23 | But yesterday members of Cleveland County Council 's develop control sub-committee agreed the application was contrary to the county structure plan and would result in increased traffic congestion . |
| 24 | These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function . |
| 25 | Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting . |
| 26 | Metron is playing its card very close to its chest and wo n't say much about the software other than it does n't emphasise regressive testing and will run on multithreaded operating systems . |
| 27 | Tom seemed very casual now , as if he had recently found the answer to some burdensome question and could relax at last , and he teased both Belinda and Mrs Porter mercilessly about the Christmas presents they had given and received . |
| 28 | The formation in 1906 of the United Nobility created a powerful pressure group of major landowners which included strategically-placed members of government and legislature and could rely upon direct access to the Tsar himself . |
| 29 | Later insulae , considerable remains of which may be seen at Ostia , were built of concrete and brick and could rise to four or five storeys . |
| 30 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |