Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Punan groups of northwestern Borneo may have taken up their lifestyle initially from demand for various forest products prized by the Chinese over 1000 years ago . |
| 2 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
| 3 | Her eyes moved to the left again to look at the locker . |
| 4 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 5 | His eyes settled on the automatic once again . |
| 6 | A large ( 33 million word ) corpus was taken and sets of ten nearest neighbours of words derived for the thousand most common words in the corpus . |
| 7 | Everyone 's eyes turn to the other so await its reappearance . |
| 8 | The poignant shaking of the hands above upraised heads followed by the pressing downwards , outwards and then backwards of the arms make an overwhelming plea for pity in MacMillan 's Requiem . |
| 9 | I accompanied her during house visits , at day and night , during surgery , and various other sessions with ages ranging from the newborn right through to the elderly and retired . |
| 10 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 11 | There are two periods of Romanesque in Spain : the basic Spanish product , of buildings erected before the great southward expansion in the late eleventh century and a transitional style of Late Romanesque of twelfth and thirteenth century work , resulting both from this expansion and from the French influence coming in from the north-east . |
| 12 | The numbers recorded have always been small , although quite marked influxes occurred in the three most recent severe winters , with about 42 in 1946/47 , 40–50 in early 1956 , and 60 in 1962/63 . |
| 13 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 14 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 15 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open . |
| 16 | This is an extreme example , and most tracks come in the hundreds rather than thousands . |
| 17 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 18 | Chief executive , Alan Wood , said : ‘ These results show that the society have been effective in handling the problems caused by the recession and that there is a continuing role for building societies operating on the traditional well understood bases . ’ |
| 19 | Both men made for the Mediterranean eventually , for reasons which may have involved a respite from British miseries and injustice . |
| 20 | Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 21 | There are a series of peaks that show up in the detector like a range of mountains as there are lots of gamma rays at different energies coming from the many naturally radioactive materials that are all around and within us . |
| 22 | There was no reason for not talking , and the two young soldiers listened to the tall quietly spoken officer as he explained the skills of silent movement . |
| 23 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
| 24 | Some of the 30 nurses working on the two long stay geriatric wards at Darlington 's Greenbank Hospital are hoping to avert a management decision to make them wear their own clothes . |
| 25 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 26 | Eagle Trust , the beleaguered mini-conglomerate being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office , obtained High Court approval to remove the vote from a further 80,000 shares to add to the 67,420,000 already disenfranchised . |
| 27 | Eagle Trust , the beleaguered mini-conglomerate being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office , obtained High Court approval to remove the vote from a further 80,000 shares to add to the 67,420,000 already disenfranchised . |
| 28 | It would have been nice , however , if the band had informed Gannon of the decision to fire him before the rumours spread through the Mancunian underground . |