Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All three Welsh areas had a high number of family units where at least one member had attended formal training , whilst in Orkney and Wester Ross there was one and none respectively .
2 The following are examples from schools where at least one microcomputer is now permanently based in the school library .
3 Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald .
4 Visual observation in the Auvergne uplands gave the distinct impression that autumn grazing levels are not as high as in the Welsh uplands judging by the height of vegetation in pastures and on more extensive grassland areas .
5 The scale of their operations and their expertise enable them to provide lenders with easily marketable paper claims , denominated in small units and with relatively low yield , whilst at the same time lending to borrowers on a long-term higher-yield basis ( e.g. Certificates of Deposit bought by companies with excess funds from the banks ) .
6 Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock .
7 However , an examination of the floor ( it rests in situ ) shows that Hakewill 's drawing is not entirely accurate ( the pelta-urns for example , are too elongated ) ; The pelta-urns now visible at North Leigh are more akin to those of the all-over pattern from Cirencester ( see above ) — another mosaic with guilloche mat filled tilted squares and at least one roundel which encloses a flower of four heart-shaped petals .
8 He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt .
9 The following are guidelines as to where direct selling is most appropriate .
10 Conflicting official versions of the circumstances of the assassination fed doubts as to where ultimate responsibility lay .
11 Agassi has proved himself extremely capable against Europeans , Australians and at least one Canadian .
12 What issues do parents and children face as the children go to school and live out their lives in widely different communities and within very different kinship relationships .
13 PHARE also provided ECU70.5 million in 1990/91 to TEMPUS ( Tran-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies ) which involves the exchange of staff and students between Eastern European countries and at least two member states .
14 The degenerate octamer-TAATGANAT oligonucleotides A and C differ only at position 11 ( see Fig. 4A ) and compete equally well for binding to the labelled ICP4 sequence as the completely homologous TAATGARAT sequence B. The Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif oligonucleotide A , which contains the first four bases of the octamer fused to a perfect TAATGARAT motif , seems to be a stronger competitor than oligonucleotides B and C. In summary , the results displayed in Fig. 4B and C clearly show that the POU domain of pou[c] binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT and degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs and with very low affinity ( only detectable after overexposure of GMSA signals ) to the canonical octamer motif .
15 He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress .
16 The three measles studies combined show a 70% reduction in deaths from respiratory causes ( 15% to 90% ; two tailed p=0.02 ) and a reduction in deaths from diarrhoea consistent with the community trials but with very wide confidence intervals .
17 Where the resource areas are widely dispersed , the territory is large , and where the territory is small , the same number or extent of resource areas are closer together , so that in both cases the predator gets its food from similar sized hunting areas but from quite different territory sizes .
18 Mathematics or Language or Science programmes for young children must be accompanied by suggestions for the use of ‘ waste ’ materials such as cartons , empty milk tins , bottles and bottle tops even in the knowledge that in many areas these are impossible to come by or that articles such as tins or bottles when in very short supply acquire a cash value in communities .
19 Copies of these could be used by landing craft flotillas and at least one survey showed an intended landing point for trucks was backed by impassable cliffs — shades of Rhodes .
20 Bluett 's has a steamer , vase and bowl , each inlaid with intricate patterns and in startlingly good condition .
21 RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s .
22 The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries .
23 Peacocks or , to be more correct , Indian peafowl males , fan their many-eyed tails in display not only at peahens but at almost any creature that passes .
24 ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it .
25 The Liberal Democrats ' success unleashed speculation about pacts , deals or at least closer co-operation between the two opposition parties .
26 The ‘ bad mood ’ syndrome brought on by an offensive odour and the resulting symptoms of annoyance can lead to antisocial behaviour ; relationships with family , friends and others become strained , the persons most affected perhaps blaming other members of the family for the position in which they find themselves and which they consider intolerable , leading in extreme cases to marriage problems or at least much unhappiness .
27 SSAP 2 requires disclosure of deviations from the four concepts and from generally accepted accounting policies .
28 It does not take too much thought to work out who would be held mainly to blame , with today 's mass unemployment figures and with so much poverty around , does it ?
29 But mud slung in such quantities and with so much acrimony is bound to stick somewhere , and the overall impression being given is that while the law may be an ass , the profession of psychology is an even bigger one .
30 Gift-giving can say " many more things and with much greater precision .
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