Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |
| 2 | However , the sums of the deficits and surpluses exactly offset one another so that all sectors together have neither a surplus nor a deficit . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I do n't think they have n't confirmed as they usua most organizations usually do about a week beforehand er by phone , to make sure it 's alright , and I 've lost their letter . |
| 4 | Further , as Byrne ( 1975 ) has shown , the allocation of resources in secondary schools quickly took on a pattern which favoured boys rather than girls , with limited provision of science and technical subject facilities in mixed schools , and minimal provision of these in girls schools . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 6 | There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government . |
| 7 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 8 | In Northampton , the Pratts were innholders from the reign of Henry VIII to George I , the Lyons family lasted for four generations and in the mid-seventeenth century had three brothers who were prominent in the trade , and the Peaches eventually acquired quite a chain of inns . |
| 9 | deadlines , a lot of these trusts only meet once a quarter |
| 10 | Plenty of gulls still kicking up a shindy . |
| 11 | For the second day running , up to 30 commuters yesterday took over a carriage on an early-morning service from Colchester to Liverpool Street and put up posters declaring it a smoking zone . |
| 12 | It is impossible to imagine their ever retaking control , but at a philosophical level the estrangement of the party from some of the old landed values still seems more a separation than a divorce . |
| 13 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 14 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 15 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 16 | The standing commissions usually met twice a year to examine relevant sections of the Five Year Plan , the budget and any laws pertaining to their area of interest . |
| 17 | Other ploys include paying an exaggerated price for a worthless item , only to return two days later to clear out a pair of Chippendales for £25 a piece . |
| 18 | Detectives hunting the killer of a businessman who was shot dead as he walked his dogs today carried out a reconstruction involving the car and a motorbike that they think may have been used in the murder . |
| 19 | In the same way six women in the area got together 5 years ago to set up a project which would bring the women together to tackle their problems as a group , to teach them new skills which will help them find alternative sources of income . |
| 20 | The guide-lines also set out a number of general principles to be observed , of which the most significant ( and conten-tious ) is that the grounds for committal should relate solely to the seriousness of the offence in question , and not the offender 's previous convictions . |
| 21 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 22 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 23 | Dancers easily understand how a series of swift pas de bourrée courus ( i.e. running on the toes ) as danced by the Queen of the Wilis in Giselle , differs from the same step performed piqué ( i.e. each foot picked up sharply at each change of weight ) , as in many of petipa 's solos . |
| 24 | Some sole practitioners pointed out their accountants already visited twice a year at the firms ' request , but the majority complained about the cost of the proposal and queried whether or not the whole profession would be required to comply . |
| 25 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 26 | Many middle managers also carry out a marketing role when dealing with issues relating to their public . |
| 27 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 28 | The screws eventually brought in a booking system but refused to put the bath book out until three o'clock . |
| 29 | Mentioning leg ulcers often conjures up a picture of old ladies with large , offensive , discharging ulcers and nurses condemned to daily visits to change unpleasant dressings . |
| 30 | While Nyasha bravely went into the temple and there sitting on the throne that was made only for the chiefs there sat not a king not a prince |