Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 2 | The major frustration , for prisoners even more than Probation Officers , is the parole system . |
| 3 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 4 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 5 | Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium . |
| 6 | Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium . |
| 7 | As she looked up into his face Lisa was aware of eyes as black as ebony and as cold as the sea bed . |
| 8 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 9 | To these offences were soon added the brutal measures which the Bolsheviks took to cling to power , the barbarous excesses of the ‘ Red Terror ’ during the Civil War ( 1918–20 ) , the suppression of all rival parties , the curtailment of liberties as basic as freedom of speech and conscience . |
| 10 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |
| 11 | It is a charge on a class of assets both present and future . |
| 12 | However , they noted some deviations related to the presence of heavy minerals with densities considerably greater than quartz and also to mica flakes whose shapes differ from the spherical . |
| 13 | Some were even taller than Miach , and some were dark-haired and pale skinned , with eyes more silver than gold . |
| 14 | At the upper levels , more of the units deal with substantial or informative topics , including subjects as varied as video games , design , Shakespeare , pop music and the British royal family . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you want me ? ’ she growled innocently looking up into eyes now slate-blue and heavy-looking with unsated sex . |
| 16 | Mark Warner Travel offers holidays to destinations throughout the Mediterranean ‘ club ’ type packages including elements as diverse as accommodation , food and the cost of participating in organised sports . |
| 17 | It must be stressed , however , that the choice of B must be such at unc has eigenvalues with moduli all less than unity ; Sylvester 's expansion then shows that unc as r increases . |
| 18 | These developments extend a comprehensive portfolio , with Electrical Insulation products going into end-uses as diverse as fishing rods and violin bows . |
| 19 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 20 | When they found their home occupied by a man and two children , they simply stood in the doorway with faces as empty as begging bowls , and made no complaint . |
| 21 | ‘ In Edinburgh , the course originally developed as a means of helping foreign post-graduate students — working in subjects as diverse as architecture , law , medicine , language teaching , and the physical sciences — to write clearly and logically in English . |
| 22 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 23 | INDUSTRIALISTS in the US hope that a new research facility providing high-energy radiation will recover for them lost ground in areas as diverse as microcircuitry and metals processing . |
| 24 | Even with existing technologies applications are emerging in areas as diverse as shopfloor guidance , document filing and building planning and management . |
| 25 | in things more telling than lipstick kisses : |
| 26 | They want to know whether today 's men are better fathers , whether men will ever open up at the breakfast table , whether male impotence is on the rise , whether men suffer from their own form of menopause , whether men will cultivate any interest in pastimes more enlightened than football and snooker . |
| 27 | NatWest Leasing has tied up several major deals in the past 12 months with clients in industries as varied as motor manufacturing and power stations . |
| 28 | ( Above ) Noble Metals at Royston manufacture a wide range of fabricated platinum group metal products used in industries as diverse as glass , electronics , automotive and in advanced medical applications |
| 29 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 30 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |