Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 2 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 3 | Lieberman ( 1963 ) , for example , found that speakers pronounce words less clearly when they are more predictable from their linguistic or pragmatic contexts . |
| 4 | ‘ Electronically controlled gas springs bring benefits both on and off the road ’ |
| 5 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 6 | Most countries accept dollars as readily as their own currency . |
| 7 | By the 1650s those to and from all foreign diplomats in London were being opened and copied in the Post Office ; and in 1665 the French ambassador acknowledged that the English " have tricks to open letters more skilfully than anywhere in the world " . |
| 8 | Maybe it had some reality in sales transactions of other times , when buyers took goods away then and there or a day later . |
| 9 | The EOC also found direct discrimination when managers treated women less favourably than men by making unfounded assumptions about their ability to be mobile . |
| 10 | Plus European markets are subsidizing their farmers to grow crops more cheaply than Third World producers possibly can . |
| 11 | Except in very small primary schools , head teachers , deputies and chairs of governors welcomed the increased management responsibility and made genuine efforts to manage resources more efficiently and effectively . |
| 12 | Firms sent workers home early and schools kept pupils in class . |
| 13 | This question indicates one of the reasons why I ask patients to answer questions as spontaneously as possible . |
| 14 | Given the responsibilities the CNAA shouldered by virtue of its Charter , given its anxiety to ensure that its procedures safeguarded standards as fully as possible , and given the diversity of the institutions with which it had to deal , the CNAA moved cautiously in its discussions about relinquishing or reducing control over any aspects of the work its procedures were designed to monitor . |
| 15 | Chimpanzees use tools more often and in a greater variety of ways than any other animal , except man . |
| 16 | Microwaves have wavelengths much longer than the thermal IR . |
| 17 | Conversely , the more the government feels able to tolerate the income distribution thrown up in a free market economy , the more the government can resist distortionary taxation and allow competitive free markets to allocate resources as efficiently as possible . |
| 18 | The Romans and Danes had settlements here too and the village became permanent in Norman times when William the Conqueror 's brother Robert , Count of Mortain , built a manor house . |
| 19 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 20 | Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists . |
| 21 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 22 | The two venues held exhibitions simultaneously rather than touring the show . |