Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them .
2 Stock Exchange surveillance computers pick up any unusual movement in share prices and the regulators follow up with visits to stockbrokers involved to discover who has been dealing .
3 Minimizing — " Our area may have a problem but I 've never seen it except for the pushers hanging about that dreadful housing estate " .
4 ‘ Have your sensors picked up any similar surges in other areas recently ? ’
5 ‘ It would take months to sell off all that lot , especially the way the market is now , ’ a merchant banker said .
6 Methods to rule out such concurrent illnesses and conditions must include cerebrospinal fluid examination and either brain imaging ( computed tomography or magnetic resonance ) or autopsy .
7 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
8 Clients taking up more appropriate benefits
9 What appeared to be a continuous row of sea shells ran down each silvery flank , almost reaching the great crescent tail .
10 In my opinion , the books revolve around this central feeling of loss .
11 The fruits make up some 60 80% of all those eaten by some of the bird species , which , in years of scarcity , respond by migrating locally , turning to previously ignored foods or by delaying breeding .
12 This mill remained in operation until 1971 , but the introduction of plastic bobbins killed off this local coppice industry ( see Caldbeck ) which shared the fortunes of the cotton industry in Lancashire .
13 Synthetic ceramides stick down these rough bits .
14 Doubtless MI5 translators wasted hours pondering over these supposed gems of intelligence .
15 The fens threw up some odd crimes .
16 Ants lay down these chemical markers on the road to a food supply so that they and their fellows may know where to go .
17 If artists have to address the fact that AIDS-sufferers shuffle off this mortal coil faster than most of the rest of humanity , perhaps the arts most closely linked to the body can express the idea best .
18 Appeals to Bloomsbury House to support job training and applications throw up some curious details : ‘ Ruth needs 2 prs. knickers and 1 apron ’ — she got the first items but not the apron .
19 The FDIC will keep the worst $5.5 billion of Bank of New England 's $20 billion of assets , and promises for the next three years to take back any more loans that go bad .
20 It will take 2 days to cut down all 80 trunks and clear away the wood .
21 But efforts to work out this atomistic society in detail are not very plausible .
22 An Act passed by the US Congress now provides Federal resources to clean up these hazardous sites — the number of which could increase 10-fold in the next few years .
23 Vasiliki is a cellular arrangement of rectangular chambers disposed round two sides of a courtyard : the temples were larger cellular structures disposed round all four sides of a rectangular courtyard .
24 Anxiety about the state of the economy and the turmoil which followed Britain 's departure from the ERM led to families paying off more outstanding debt last month .
25 Why then do managers take on these extra burdens ?
26 The colouring of the prints throws up some great names , for it was an apprenticeship training undergone by artists of the calibre of Girtin and Turner .
27 Continuing anxiety about the state of the economy forced families to pay off more outstanding debt last month .
28 No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable .
29 It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof .
30 If the bonding between nickel and the water ligands is regarded as having some covalent character , then the lone pairs of the water molecules are in bonding levels , and two of the metal d orbitals take on some anti-bonding character .
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