Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough .
2 Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom .
3 Isolated nuclei display an ATP-dependent uptake of calcium , of which 20% was subsequently released by InsP 3 ( ref. 138 ) .
4 Although Kanemaru had been personally grooming Ichiro Ozawa as his successor , the circumstances of his retirement allowed Ozawa 's opponents to mount an effective campaign against his succession .
5 Ankles suffer a high rate of injury wherever poor mats are used .
6 It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand .
7 The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources .
8 Highly cohesive groups display a strong loyalty to their members and a strong adherence to group norms .
9 The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth .
10 How to avert both these dangers became a major concern among employers , politicians and in the press , although optimism remained that solutions could be found .
11 Help in maintaining the prices of agricultural products became a permanent feature of government policy from this time .
12 On the Somme in 1916 , the British used 15in weapons , while in 1918 the Germans produced a long-range gun with which to bombard Paris .
13 We are living in a remarkable time , when the conflict of opinions renders a firm foundation of knowledge indispensable …
14 Although the written text may be very general and refrain from referring either to men or women , the illustrations make a definite point for the majority contain male figures .
15 The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars .
16 Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline .
17 Statistical aggregates suggesting an inexorable logic to Labour 's advance in the 1920s disguise considerable reversals in certain localities and unexpected increases in others ( Savage 1987 Ch 8 ) .
18 Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics .
19 Subsequently anterior and posterior abdominal scans were obtained at 40 , 120 , and 240 minutes using a large field of view gamma camera fitted with a low energy high resolution collimator and interfaced to a Research Machines Nimbus microcomputer .
20 The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures .
21 The simple comparison of mean pulse rate data from before sedation and during the procedure showed both groups experienced a similar degree of tachycardia during the procedure ( Table III ) .
22 Ideally , strategies using an economics-based approach to air pollution control would provide financial incentives for emission sources to pursue the most cost-effective means for reducing pollution ( Anderson et al. , 1977 ; Magat , 1982 ; Rosencranz , 1981 ) .
23 For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant .
24 From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens .
25 They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines .
26 Unique and naive in style , these ‘ artless ’ illustrations remain an important element of the stories and part of the total experience .
27 Working in groups offers an enjoyable contrast to individual work and is also an effective form of therapeutic intervention , as well as being a cost-efficient use of time .
28 Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him .
29 Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice .
30 ULSTER boxers made a strong claim for an monopoly of the titles in the Maxol National Junior championship semi-finals at the National Stadium last night .
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