Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In a very influential paper , Daniel Maltz and Ruth Borker have placed particular emphasis on the fact that girls and boys play in single sex peer groups where they learn different styles of speech .
2 VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied .
3 Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists .
4 In addition , HCI offers the following generous reductions for the second child sharing a room with 2 full fare paying passengers at all Clubs where you see this symbol
5 For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas .
6 Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering .
7 Is n't it mangrove swamps where you find blue-clawed crabs ?
8 DAVID Hunt was lobbied by trade unionists yesterday when he visited offices where they claim 1,000 jobs are under threat .
9 She is prone to pointing out to journalists that she has ugly hands ( her assessment ) , says she grew up thinking she was plain and now is so embarrassed by her appearance on screen that she never sees her films unless she 's forced to .
10 It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems .
11 And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library
12 You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) .
13 No well that will be our that will be our Christmas trimmings that we bought this year .
14 During the last couple of months that he holds that office , he will be judged harshly on what he does .
15 The deputé , in a supplementary question , asks what on earth the minister means by ‘ Belgian ’ and demands that he clarify this category which he says he does not recognise .
16 Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance .
17 Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots .
18 In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being .
19 We go to the track meets , the basketball matches and we select kids and we give those kids scholarships based on athletic merit .
20 In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons .
21 S3 This is a critical year where decisions about which pupils are likely to prove to be good Higher Candidates and which need more consolidation and a slower pace are taken .
22 And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun .
23 But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’
24 No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it .
25 So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system .
26 We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times !
27 The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today .
28 If the district judge intends to rescind , notice is given to the parties and they have 14 days to object , whereupon a hearing is fixed to decide on rescission .
29 The better-off are likely to be advised to delay serious relationships until they have more life experience .
30 We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras .
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