Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 2 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 3 | In Kendal prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class , and the Kendal yards , with the merchant 's house , the workers ' cottages , and the spinning and weaving lofts all packed together under close supervision opened up new conditions . |
| 4 | More directly , the cause of integration has been served by the formal incorporation of subjects hitherto taught separately into new programmes with new names . |
| 5 | An avid traveller in Mediterranean lands and an early exponent of the use of audio-visual teaching aids ( using lantern slides in a lecture in 1929 ) , he was the only man to have led his bride from Church under an archway of History notebooks suddenly held aloft by two lines of boys from School . |
| 6 | Both chromatographic methods thus consist essentially of two steps : 1 . |
| 7 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 8 | These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly . |
| 9 | ‘ Those that do have relationships usually end up with strong and critical women , a reflection of their regimented life as an adolescent . |
| 10 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 11 | Dinosaurs probably lived individually for one hundred years . |
| 12 | The Guidelines also spell out in some detail what anticompetitive effects the Department is concerned about . |
| 13 | Now I have never ‘ done ’ advertising , on the simple , self-interested principle that if television viewers knew I could be paid to recommend biscuits , however vicariously , they might reasonably conclude that the Conservative , Labour or Liberal Democrat parties also come up with occasional help with my household expenses . |
| 14 | With the reduction in stop-start driving , exhaust pollution is much reduced , tyre noise is low , and engines are idling as cars typically proceed smoothly at 20–30 km/h . |
| 15 | Following the trend of many new industries , firms that make computers often spring up near each other . |
| 16 | And I 'd got the Know me God Personally cos the words really stand out on that little green book . |
| 17 | With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it . |
| 18 | Her aunt nodded and her eyes strangely spilled over with quick tears . |
| 19 | Watch alcohol content too — drinkers sometimes react unfavourably to high-alcohol wines from California and Australia . |
| 20 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 21 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 22 | The fact that fewer people were participating in the ‘ cash ’ economy , since more and more were having their rent , bills etc. paid directly by one public agency to another would also tend to debilitate the private sector , and may have serious social repercussions by producing a culture of dependence , alienation and apathy . |
| 23 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 24 | There is also a third type , called conservative or passive plate margins which are margins between plates at which nothing special happens — the two plates merely slide sideways past each other without fuss or bother . |
| 25 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 26 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 27 | Non-Japanese companies largely steer clear of virgin forests , opting instead for investment in eucalyptus plantations . |
| 28 | Despite this problem , donations still pour in from other sources . |
| 29 | — But some successfully divisionalized private companies also operate mainly in one product area . |
| 30 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |