Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had already had a brief clash with the German destroyers and now headed north with the MGB were MLs 5 and 15 , but ML 15 had to be abandoned . |
| 2 | I had , after all , accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour . |
| 3 | Bees pollinated frequently and with large loads but generally promoted geitonogamy , whereas butterflies pollinated less often and with smaller loads but usually cross pollinated ; flies pollinated infrequently , with small loads and generally promoted geitonogamy . |
| 4 | Some have suffered from high inflation rates and political coups which have undermined the population 's confidence in domestic currencies and thereby encouraged investment in non-productive gold coins or jewellery . |
| 5 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |
| 6 | No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box . |
| 7 | Instead , it tended to push up wage scales in unionized industries and subsequently pushed inflation even higher . |
| 8 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 9 | The picture which emerges is one where there was a good deal of casual crudity and the occasional fight between individuals or small groups but little orchestrated rowdyism or violence . |
| 10 | Bees pollinated frequently and with large loads but generally promoted geitonogamy , whereas butterflies pollinated less often and with smaller loads but usually cross pollinated ; flies pollinated infrequently , with small loads and generally promoted geitonogamy . |
| 11 | American ornithologists had more practical concerns that soon attracted government funding . |
| 12 | The architect asked one of his closest friends , the painter William Nicholson , to decorate the classic proportions and deeply coved ceiling of the upper hall . |
| 13 | The specific reason for the arrival of 252 Squadron was to provide long-range protection for a fast merchant vessel — the S.S. ‘ Parracombe ’ — on its way from Gibraltar , unescorted , carrying 21 crated Hurricanes and much needed cargo for the island , and also for a convoy of five fast freighters for Alexandria ( ‘ Tiger ’ convoy ) due to pass the island several days hence . |
| 14 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 15 | Funding was broadly divided between federal programmes and locally raised bond issue finance . |
| 16 | The result — we have beautiful new homes and centrally heated redundancy ! |
| 17 | A TEXAN dude that 's big in France and Germany , apparently , but this record ai n't gon na light up the rest of the west with its plodding , straight-forward observations and predictably worn voicebox . |
| 18 | Toothed jaws are certainly effective at removing flesh , and stingless bees have other features that probably helped carrion dependence to evolve — their aggressive behaviour , which drives away other scavenging insects , and the use of pheromone scents to organise mass recruitment to newly located food sources . |
| 19 | Without denying the accountability/ control/patronage problems which accompany this form of governmental organization , the survival of the species suggests that governments themselves see a continuing role for non-departmental public bodies , particularly when faced with politically hostile local authorities and bureaucratically organized government departments which may frustrate central government policy priorities . |
| 20 | With so many royal portraits and closely argued catalogue entries based on unpublished material in the Royal archives , the text is a diamond mine of information for biographers and historians . |
| 21 | One favourite Victorian theme was that of the dying gipsy child , who at the last hour was found by Christian children and so found salvation . |
| 22 | The dry/treated hair variant is particularly good for revitalising lacklustre locks and chemically treated hair that 's lost its shine . |
| 23 | The import companies , Guinness Import Company in the USA and Guinness Import Company ( Canada ) , have benefited from intelligent acquisitions and subsequently strengthened brand portfolios . |