Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Down in the basement , what is effectively a small warehouse holds and dispatches all RSGB publications and other radio books purchased by mail order , with the income earned providing a useful supplement to the Society 's funds .
2 This research develops and extends these systems of tests , and incorporates expert system features into them .
3 Its explicitness clarifies and deepens interpretative understanding .
4 The research examines and evaluates such support in three very different national contexts all of which can claim successes in the computer field .
5 Pound tells and retells this tale , in laminated fragments , in the early Cantos .
6 Their fluency deceives and leads foreign language teachers to perceive their learners ' command of the first language as perfect by comparison with their knowledge of the foreign language .
7 Through volunteer labour , donations , Habitat builds and renovates 8,000 homes a year , which are sold at no profit and with no interest mortgages .
8 Thus , for example , all versions of positivism which rely upon an exhaustive sources thesis might be refuted by the undoubted circumstance that criminal law incorporates and generates moral standards .
9 In at least one state , Karnataka , the drink lobby makes and unmakes chief ministers .
10 And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication .
11 Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process .
12 In responding to the NHS reforms nurses can not afford to play Stein 's ‘ game ’ with the medical profession , which by its nature excludes and alienates other members of the multidisciplinary team .
13 Avoid the sun during the middle of the day and reapply the sun-cream , especially when swimming ( water reflects and intensifies UV rays ) or perspiring heavily .
14 The Registry prepares and circulates predicted numbers of students on next year 's modules .
15 It is the process where-by the state encourages and legitimates certain forms of dependency , such as unemployment and early retirement among men aged 60–64 , while subjecting others not only to substantially lower incomes , but also to control procedures intended to ensure that they continue searching for work ( Sinfield 1981 : 142 ) .
16 Trade in goods would arise from broad specialization of the ‘ workshop of the world ’ type , for example exporting manufactures and importing primary goods .
17 Not content with protest in the homelands , the spirit spreads and joins similar movements worldwide , so that dissidents protesting against tyranny become our modern heroes and heroines .
18 The Reds dropped a few small bombs , killed far fewer people than calculation suggests and ignored militarily-attractive targets .
19 Bonsai world grows and sell miniature trees .
20 The project compares and analyses these methods and processes in a sample of establishments which are either planning or currently operationalising major organisational or technological change .
21 The affidavit must verify that the defendant falls within the categories in Ord 29 , r11(2) and the amount of the damages to which the application relates and contain enough information to enable the master or district judge to reach a preliminary valuation of the claim ( because he has got to order a part of it to be paid to the plaintiff ) .
22 I know the congress considers and determines all questions of policy affecting the general industry , political or social welfare of membership and attracts around two thousand five hundred delegates , visitors and guests .
23 Meanwhile the Inservice Panel devises and executes staff-development activities and explores infrastructural initiatives ( for example , networking ) designed to facilitate the communication of good practice , the sharing of ideas and the peer support which characterise a commitment to extending the professionalism of teachers throughout the county .
24 In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides .
25 The story of Alice Walker 's rise to bestsellerdom emphasizes how the literary star system selects and tokenizes particular works while ignoring others .
26 By giving identity the Profitboss recognizes and appreciates each individual 's contribution to profit .
27 The giving of grades no doubt aggravates and facilitates such effects but mostly they could survive in its absence .
28 Random Century publishes and distributes several diaries a year , including the very successful Kew Gardens Desk and Pocket Diary , Kaffe Fassett diaries and address books , the beautiful National Portrait Gallery calendar and notelets and the Victoria & Albert Museum 's social stationery .
29 Unfortunately , much traditional language teaching , in its zeal for practising verb tenses and using new vocabulary , has concentrated exclusively on longer forms ( Answer with a full sentence please . ! )
30 Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic .
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