Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 3 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 4 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
| 5 | An exclusion clause , which purports to exclude or limit liability under these terms , is subject to the rules already outlined in this chapter , including the rules laid down in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire Television helicopter , which had lifted the crew in , landed in pitch darkness , totally against the ground rules laid down by the Civil Aviation Authority , and lifted out the film equipment . |
| 7 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 8 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 9 | Struggling into yet another of the brief garments bought for her by Ross — her trembling fingers fumbling awkwardly with the small scraps of material — Laura dearly wished that she had the courage to chicken out of the whole affair . |
| 10 | CHAMPS will be one of the vertical-market products developed further by the independent company — and an announcement is expected in the autumn . |
| 11 | Similarly , the Scandinavian antipathy for power-hungry , dominant task leaders in groups fits poorly with the German tolerance of dominant power-holders as a means of getting things done . |
| 12 | Booking : At the moment , Crêchendo is London-based ( Putney , Fulham , Battersea , Notting Hill Gate , West Kensington ) and is heavily booked , but there are plans to go nationwide in the not-too-distant future . |
| 13 | At a friend 's studio she posed , head on one side and delicate long fingers hanging languidly from the enveloping sleeves of her home-made gown . |
| 14 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 15 | The frozen lakes and surrounding snow peaks gleamed ethereally in the wan light of a crescent moon and a starspangled sky . |
| 16 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
| 17 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 18 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 19 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 20 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 21 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 22 | This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment . |
| 23 | ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God . |
| 24 | A survey by US federal scientists has recorded " total failure " to reproduce among colonies of murres — diving birds found widely in the northern Pacific . |
| 25 | A survey of Central American women 's development programmes carried out by the Mexican government 's " Women 's Documentation Centre " in April 1982 produced from the Ministry of Education the following list of publications on women 's issues available in El Salvador : Vision Magazine ; Today At Home ; TV Guide ; Vanity ; Cosmopolitan ; Good Housekeeping . |
| 26 | Human-Computer Interaction : Issues and techniques which determine the usability of computer systems , interactive programming techniques , and novel types of human-computer interface such as computer hearing , vision , speech , and AI systems ; Industrial computer vision systems ; Aiding the work of a programmer producing computer vision systems for specific applications ; Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately ; Studying the human-computer interactions involved both in the developmental and industrial environments . |
| 27 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 28 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 29 | The frequency of political discussions rose sharply between the pre-campaign week and the final campaign , but then it continued to rise steadily throughout the campaign to peak at the very end . |
| 30 | Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax . |