Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 2 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |
| 3 | In fact , the two trials that directly compared intravenous heparin with no heparin as adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis in the absence of aspirin give contradictory results . |
| 4 | Bidding was kept lively by a large number of Italian clients who according to one organiser all arrived in open Porsches with Milan number plates and invariably occupied front row seats ‘ flamboyant but not the very rich sort of Italians , you understand ’ , he said . |
| 5 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 6 | Thirdly , European industrialisation and population growth in the 1800s encouraged cheap food imports and thus stimulated economic development in North America and elsewhere . |
| 7 | Whatever the real cause for the explosion of the block in Pons ' laboratory may have been , the event focused their expectations and also urged increased caution and security . |
| 8 | Changing over to channel two , I tried three different guitars and yet found great difficulty finding anything there that I liked . |
| 9 | Among the different groups now contending for influence , the most important are the democratic reformers , the men and women who stood in recent local elections on platforms that broadly advocated multi-party politics and bolder economic change . |
| 10 | What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be . |
| 11 | It has proved possible to reach agreements that eventually ended atmospheric pollution caused by nuclear tests , that prohibited environmental modification and kept Antarctica free of nuclear weapons and military establishments . |
| 12 | Had n't scattered monogrammed handkerchiefs about or faked alibis or carelessly dropped dated train tickets or shown knowledge he should n't have had . |
| 13 | To protect itself , Company A , at the instigation of Company B , its parent company , falsely asserted that these accounts were the responsibility of the plaintiffs and wrongfully seized certain metal warrants belonging to the plaintiffs . |
| 14 | PCNA can be demonstrated by using monoclonal antibodies , usually requiring cryostat sections or specially prepared histological material . |
| 15 | It was this establishment of bishoprics that finally destroyed Saxon identity , for life began to revolve around centralised locations with the bishoprics generating towns , and the ancient semi-nomadic life was eroded . |
| 16 | Huge areas of open land were evident until enclosure from the seventeenth century onwards ; large areas of common , former royal forests and openly grazed rough wood pasture areas disappeared in early nineteenth-century acts . |
| 17 | Official documentation depends on a tribe 's recognition by the United States government , and for tribes that never signed official peace treaties with Washington ( and many did not ) , members of those tribes lack certificates of official Indian ancestry . |
| 18 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |