Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each project has had problems with builders -buildings have always taken longer than anticipated . |
| 2 | A flock of American eagles have successfully made more than one takeover . |
| 3 | Reactor-grade plutonium typically contains between 50 and 80 per cent of the plutonium 239 isotope ; weapons grade normally contains more than 90 per cent . |
| 4 | The problems discussed above arise even when inflation is fully anticipated by all economic agents . |
| 5 | Geologists had chiefly looked horizontally where fossils were concerned , using them to date strata rather than following resemblances vertically through time . |
| 6 | Even though Hagans had already admitted more than thirty offences of indecency , and was facing a charge of raping another woman , Cheltenham magistrates were not convinced by police fears that he could commit further offences . |
| 7 | Politicians and civil servants have probably learned less than either of them . |
| 8 | Gifts to museums have therefore fallen dramatically since the one-year tax window allowing full deductibility closed on 30 June . |
| 9 | In her wake , mud or no , came another French author , even more broad-minded , in the person of François Rabelais , while in the nineteenth century the spa 's literary connections became more exalted still when the great Romantic writers , Alfred de Vigny , Chateaubriand and George Sand all visited it . |
| 10 | The second row of Table 16–1 shows that government spending on transfer payments has also risen faster than national income . |
| 11 | Drug traffickers had also killed more than 20 police officers in separate incidents over the previous 10 days , in retaliation for the October death of Brance Muñoz Mosquera , believed to be the Medellín drug cartel 's military commander [ see p. 39138 ] . |
| 12 | Food prices have consistently risen less than the retail prices index . |
| 13 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 14 | Police have now interviewed more than 600 people and taken 1,500 statements in the year-long probe . |
| 15 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 16 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 17 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 18 | to , because , one of the main points about the embarrassing er aspect , mainly boys sniggering and giggling , whatever , maybe some girls do , but it 's mainly er , males , I think a point to be made there is , it is a well known fact that boys took longer to mature emotionally than girls and I think if it was a guy a younger guy , maybe in his late twenties , early thirties teaching it , and if he had the sort of guts to turn round and the bravery to say look son , what is it you 're laughing at , what 's so funny ? |
| 19 | The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants . |
| 20 | The relative position of girls and boys becomes sharply divided only when we look at two factors behind the generalized statistics : ( 1 ) subject choices ; ( 2 ) post-school experiences . |
| 21 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 22 | If the market were weak , the authorities intended simply to withdraw rather than give support until it strengthened again , when gilt-edged sales would be resumed . |
| 23 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |