Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other probes that operate on exactly the same principle but are geometrically different : an important one is the hot-film anemometer ; the heated element consists of a thin metallic film on the surface of a wedge-shaped thermally and electrically insulating base . |
| 2 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 3 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 4 | Instead the trial proceeds on the basis of oral evidence given by witnesses who are called by the parties and examined in much the same fashion as in England . |
| 5 | Still coached by Dr Pietr Labuschange , Meyer went through a rigorous training schedule over the winter months and ran in quite a few cross-country races , a new experience for her . |
| 6 | Fujitsu Ltd has signed with the Gnosis Pacific arm of Antwerp-based Gnosis NV to distribute Gnosis ' SequeLink Unix software products : SequeLink is a suite of software products that run on both an MS-DOS personal computer and on the Unix server running the SQL database . |
| 7 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 8 | After it had crossed the Torrente Taro the tram had a dead straight journey for the rest of the way , stopping at three more places and picking up just a few more passengers , none of whom were regulars . |
| 9 | I can escape other troubles and concentrate on just the one problem — how to make that damn ball go where I want . |
| 10 | He got the champagne and two glasses and went back up the stairs . |
| 11 | Wan and red-eyed , and nearly always male , they wore rebel chic regalia and communicated in either a hyperactive babble or a laboured monotone . |
| 12 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 13 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 14 | Some employers introduced ‘ speed-up ’ for their factory hands , resulting in less work for homeworkers , while others gave the best paying work to their indoor hands and gave out only the inferior grades of work which required the most time spent on it to houses where the inspectors were unlikely to penetrate . |
| 15 | The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space . |
| 16 | For each photograph , they worked out a complicated formula to get their own cameras and tripods in exactly the same positions as the ones adopted by their predecessor a century earlier . |