Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 2 | But as you hear the laughter , songs and shouts echo off the barren Sahelian hills you ca n't help but feel that Eritrea provides an optimistic boost for those who retain a faith in education . |
| 3 | His eyes and ears picked out a flashing red light , an insistent warning bleep . |
| 4 | Brutal guards and trusties breaking down the fresh fish . |
| 5 | Situations which involve deeper water out of doors need very careful supervision , but a small group of children with an adult could visit a bridge to watch boats move underneath as cars and buses go over the top . |
| 6 | Inkeroinen is a scattering of shops and houses clustered around a small railway junction . |
| 7 | From them comes a smell which I find achingly familiar : they and their spears and shields give off the scent of Africa : woodsmoke , hides , cattle and dust . |
| 8 | Junior health minister Tim Yeo has referred to clients and assessors drawing up a ‘ wish list ’ , ‘ without any thought for resources or priorities ’ . |
| 9 | No shakes and rattles as trams roll back the years Forty-three years after they left , Trevor Bates reports on today 's return of trams to Manchester |
| 10 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 11 | The Nanas are huge fertile devouring fields ; cowboys and Indians fight over a breast while plastic flowers grow on the other in a paradigm of the good breast and the bad breast . |
| 12 | Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Fly Past Spitfires and Hurricanes flying up the Mall on September 15th . |
| 13 | He 's crossed deserts , jungles and oceans tracking down the world 's 20 types of SPARROW . |
| 14 | Tame films of this sort show directors and writings giving up the struggle to deal with contemporary anxieties . |
| 15 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 16 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 17 | Our report concerns events which took place in the days immediately following the end of the war in southern Austria , the area of mountains and valleys making up the province of Carinthia . |
| 18 | Snorts and guffaws bounce off the walls ( nothing so trillingly femme as a girlish giggle ) . |
| 19 | Keynesians and monetarists disagree over the shape and stability of the liquidity preference curve ( the demand for money curve ) . |
| 20 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 21 | But many disbelieving locals have stayed behind , even as technicians in plastic suits and respirators swarm over the town . |
| 22 | The girl 's ordeal lasted 12 hours until police broke down the front door and arrested five people . |
| 23 | Gradually , wool clothiers , merchants and hosiers took over the work formerly done by the monks . |
| 24 | Tranquillity and excellent cooking are not , however , the only attribute , there are also many beautiful sights nearby including the conical shapes of Trevi whose houses and churches cascade down the hillside . |
| 25 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 26 | On Oct. 31-Nov. 1 some 20,000 troops and tanks advanced down the international highway through the Iraqi town of Zakho and took control of about 160 sq km of Iraqi territory on two main fronts , in the Haftanin region north-east of Zakho and another in the Hakurk valley near the border . |
| 27 | And how many days and weeks and years made up a duration was anybody 's guess . |
| 28 | Swarms of flies and mosquitoes hover over the marshes . |
| 29 | Plant remains — seeds , grains , and pollens — show what species of plants and trees grew around a particular site , what plants were being deliberately cultivated , and sometimes what the plants would yield in an average harvest . |
| 30 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |