Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Māilo 's eyes always had a disconcerting twinkle : whatever he was saying I was never sure if he was teasing me . |
| 32 | Environmental management methods usually require a large workforce , are costly and are generally feasible only in townships and major commercial undertakings vital to the country 's economy , where they may prove more economical in the long run than the recurrent use of insecticides . |
| 33 | Nor did the documentary impulse make much impact on the films of Herbert Wilcox , whose ‘ patriotic ’ pictures always had a preachy tone . |
| 34 | Translation technologies are important , however , because other solutions still lack a common development environment and should be able to get to multiple platforms from a single code base . |
| 35 | The National Union of Journalists yesterday launched a worldwide campaign to boycott products from Mr Robert Maxwell 's Pergamon Press publishing company in Oxford . |
| 36 | The National Union of Journalists yesterday launched a worldwide campaign to boycott products from Mr Robert Maxwell 's Pergamon Press publishing company in Oxford . |
| 37 | Signed bindings by superb craftsmen deservedly command a higher figure than those less certainly identifiable , and some booksellers and auctioneers yield to the temptation of ascribing a binding on very slender evidence . |
| 38 | PREMIER Consolidated Oilfields yesterday reported a 24 p.c. fall in full-year profits to £8.91m pre-tax , on turnover 24 p.c. lower at £32m . |
| 39 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 40 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 41 | These concentrations always present a clear decrease however and seem to contradict the apparent lack of a mutant phenotype . |
| 42 | Such clients usually had a multiple debt problem , owing money on their mortgage , personal loans and their car . |
| 43 | Such words cover a wide tempo area , and pace Neumann , minuets have the right to express themselves as they see fit ! , especially since ( 2 ) actual speeds associated with any given set of tempo words also cover a large tempo area . |
| 44 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 45 | The arolium and pulvilli are pad-like organs enabling their possessors to climb smooth or steep surfaces : the plantulae also have a similar function . |
| 46 | Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists . |
| 47 | Unfortunately , most of these combinations also produce a substantial lengthening of the bleeding time , which may be suggestive of an increased bleeding risk . |
| 48 | Most units also have a small LCD screen . |
| 49 | Beating the Bounds also served a practical purpose in the days before maps , reminding villagers where the boundaries of their parish and the areas of common land within actually lay . |
| 50 | Clients also receive a regular newsletter and benefit from a securities management service . |
| 51 | Clients also have a free use of the swimming pool at Hotel Sonne . |
| 52 | These Champagnes probably contain a significant proportion of vins de taille despite declarations to the opposite by the purchasing houses which end up selling them . |
| 53 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 54 | The methods also suggest a similar technique , although I may be stretching a point . ’ |
| 55 | In all skilled occupations other than agriculture and gardening foreigners also played a major role : government agencies were the main employers , but private firms also needed foreign bricklayers , carpenters , electricians , bulldozer drivers , surveyors , accountants . |
| 56 | The Hospital Infection Society Working Party 's guidelines also suggested a two tier approach and gave a list of 16 inoculation risk categories of patients . |
| 57 | Candidates also had a unique opportunity to question examiners about their individual concerns . |
| 58 | Two superb lace shops also offer a wide range of goods from souvenirs to wedding dresses ! |
| 59 | However , in both countries , the creative arts also maintain a distinct existence under the headings of Kunst , lettres and beaux-arts . |
| 60 | To determine whether TTX blocks proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells by decreasing the production or release of a mitogen , we injected TTX into one eye of P10 animals and examined their optic nerves 2 days later ; in these experiments , some of the animals also received a subarachnoid injection of COS cells that were genetically engineered to secrete the AA form of PDGF into the cerebrospinal fluid , from where it is delivered to the optic nerve . |