Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dawn yesterday , Group Four piled on the pressure , catching the tides right and putting more distance between herself and the rest of the fleet as she approached Southampton . |
| 2 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |
| 3 | ‘ We can all put photographs , pictures and words together and create some sort of image . ’ |
| 4 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 5 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 6 | The Whitby line , another which has been the subject of closure worries , will serve shoppers better and has new connections at Grosmont for the North York Moors Railway . |
| 7 | But I think even if you 're familiar with computers generally and have good keyboard skills that 's |
| 8 | The reason the return of Madness got the fans out and raised critical hackles was because there 'd been no outfit to take their place in the intervening years . |
| 9 | Eventually the plant bushes out and develops stocky rootstock , and the plantlets thereon can be divided and transplanted . |
| 10 | Selling computers well and producing baked beans efficiently are functions of skill , not of personality . |
| 11 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 12 | Nine Standards is the name given to a line of ancient piles of stones , nine in all , built into large cairns by forgotten men centuries ago and adding great distinction to a bleak moorland plateau . |
| 13 | At a strained board meeting held on 18 June , four days before take-off , Douglas Paul 's report on the reservations situation was read out and it was agreed that Fields should leave the Woodstock Street offices immediately and relinquish personal control of the reservations . |
| 14 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 15 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |
| 16 | Introduction of a bactericide alters the natural balance by killing off residents and transients indiscriminately and replaces natural defences with a chemical residual activity . |
| 17 | Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places . |
| 18 | With likes of Ken Wright , Roger Gould and Enrique Rodriguez ( nice bow tie , Rico ) , they threw the beer cans away and ran some beauts . |
| 19 | In recent years , however , there has been a move towards more intensive farming : altering the lambing season so they are born at different times of the year ; bringing lambs indoors and using special feed to make them grow bigger . |
| 20 | I sorted the orange nylon lines out and did some tying , untangling line from line , knot from knot . |
| 21 | Although Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum spends less time in this country than his three younger brothers , the ruler of Dubai still owns about 130 top racehorses here and has extensive business interests . |
| 22 | He held several distinguished posts here and took British citizenship in 1939 . |
| 23 | He held several distinguished posts here and took British citizenship in 1939 . |
| 24 | Witnesses were found and coerced or bullied into telling what they had seen , by the simple expedient of sealing off the entire area for blocks around and threatening all-night interrogation sessions , unless information was forthcoming . |
| 25 | Eastern Europe must try to maintain satisfactory levels of exports to the West in order to service its debt obligations there and satisfy domestic needs at a time when it is being pressed to greatly increase exports of manufactures to the Soviet Union to pay for increasingly costly imports . |
| 26 | ‘ If we pass this policy we can save at least £5bn to help to put this country on its feet again and to make decent lives for ordinary people possible , ’ he said . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , a pragmatist judge almost invariably applies his new rules retrospectively and encourages other judges to do the same , this will achieve a further , very great benefit for their community . |
| 28 | Some specialised in building boats quickly and had large numbers of boatbuilders but most docks were very small with a work force of only two or three men . |
| 29 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 30 | They sold Le Boursidière in Paris and holdings in Brussels where Samuel Reichmann had first established connections many years ago and deposited substantial funds . |