Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 2 | As they watched in horror , they saw flames eating their way up one of the heavy curtains . |
| 3 | Alex Brown & Sons lowered its rating to neutral from strong buy and cut its fiscal 1993 earnings estimate to $1.80 from $2.80 a share . |
| 4 | Gregory wrote before Columbanus and his monastic foundations made their impact on Frankish society ; but everywhere monks and nuns — not only of Irish origin — helped to give some moral and devotional definition to the Christianity of royal courts , aristocratic households , and small local communities . |
| 5 | 1990 was such a year , when successive waves of these birds made their appearance from late July until well through September . |
| 6 | Its growth , therefore , does not come about by territorial gains , but by individuals and groups submitting their wills to that of their Heavenly King . |
| 7 | Practically the two extremes may be reconciled through more initial effort in training to ensure user understanding of the range of information sources , combined with more indepth support from ‘ database or information surfers ’ ( navigators ) , targeting particular subject groups to optimise their exploitation of this increasingly complex information environment . |
| 8 | The working groups produced their reports in 1989 , and on the basis of them , the Secretary of State drew up and published programmes of study and attainment targets in all four subjects . |
| 9 | Nuclear industry employees who work in areas where exposure to radiation is possible are given film badges to monitor their exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 10 | With a soft groan , Rohan pulled her into his arms , holding her close against his body , the strong fingers stroking her hair with surprising gentleness . |
| 11 | There were technicalities to handle and , above all , the management of time was important while heads and their deputies led their colleagues through new patterns of requirement . |
| 12 | The authorities regarded my collection as some kind of joke ; no-one paid any serious attention to it . |
| 13 | Jennens drew his libretto from three books of the Old Testament as well as histories of Xenophon and Heroditus . |
| 14 | Soviet spokesmen warned the non-aligned states against succumbing to Western attempts to secure their support for American Rapid Deployment Forces . |
| 15 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 16 | The level of giving has not increased in real terms at all significantly in the late 1980s despite attempts to increase its attractiveness through various tax reliefs . |
| 17 | Then , splayed sensually , his fingers stroked her nipples into agonised peaks . |
| 18 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 19 | This is why it is so vital that the EC 's half-hearted plans to deregulate its airlines after 1992 should be strengthened , not diluted . |
| 20 | Readers lose their faith in Soviet press |
| 21 | This would allow the identification of implants that are doing badly and would allow individual units to compare their performance with national figures . |
| 22 | A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues . |
| 23 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 24 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 25 | She tackled the Himalayas at eighty-eight , occasionally allowing porters to carry her pick-a-back across impossible terrain . |
| 26 | The authors divided their period into three groups . |
| 27 | Other searchlights came on , but the German-looking silhouette of Campbeltown and some other confusions of identity enabled the intruders to bluff their way for another five minutes and about 2,000 yards ( 1,800m ) nearer the harbour . |
| 28 | The scale of the enterprise is so large that fourteen nations combine their efforts at this single lab . |
| 29 | Some snakes lose their tail-tips with comparative ease , under duress , but unlike their four-legged relatives they are incapable of any regrowth . |
| 30 | In recent years the head offices of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have taken steps to increase their influence on this process , and have aroused the resentment of local favourites whose chances of nomination have been jeopardised by this " interference " . |