Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age . |
| 2 | There are 5–6 oral papillae and 5 or more supplementary papillae . |
| 3 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 4 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 5 | It is a middle-horned breed : the bull 's horns are thick and grow horizontally and sideways from the poll , while cows display finer , gently curved horns somewhat similar in style of growth to those of the Longhorns but shorter and more balanced , though occasionally one horn grows in a different direction to the other . |
| 6 | As you become more familiar with the subject , after repeated reviews , data can be found and appreciated if you have made the pages of your textbooks as individual and readily recognisable as the pages of your notes . |
| 7 | On the British part , the staff regarded Arab customs as weird and slightly annoying . |
| 8 | Matthew Arnold refers to Horace 's " allusive and compressed manner " ( In his essay " On translating Homer " ; actually with reference to in Odes , iv , ) Gladstone ( 1894 : v ) mentions " the necessity of compression " as the particular object of his own translations — which are in places as uncompressed and haplessly spongy as anyone else 's . |
| 9 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |
| 10 | There are built-in cupboards and shelves ; larders and bright and fairly spacious sculleries . |
| 11 | This activity has earned the gratitude and , indeed , the respect of hacks such as myself , who have come to rely on the OHE 's booklets and fact sheets and other publications as accurate and marvellously convenient source material . |
| 12 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 13 | There are heavy frames , light dainty frames , expensive frames and inexpensive but still attractive ones , as well as older styles or very modern designs . |
| 14 | On human rights , many consider the torture , disappearances , murders and bombings of innocent civilians as unpleasant but absolutely necessary elements of the war . |
| 15 | Of respondents in the Gallup Poll in 1980 , 70% regarded Americans as very or fairly trustworthy . |
| 16 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 17 | We report photographic follow-up of patients with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi and 20 or more benign naevi . |
| 18 | In nursery schools and classes , in England in 1985 , there were approximately 6000 qualified nursery teachers , 8000 nursery assistants , 3000 nursery students and 100 or so unqualified teacher 's aides or helpers . |
| 19 | An extraordinary oil entitled ‘ Watchers by the Sea ’ ( private collection ) pictures women as strong and sexually assertive beings in their own right , quite unlike Lilith . |
| 20 | The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these . |