Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been pointed out previously that coordinate singularities necessarily occur in the regions II and III that contain the approaching waves . |
| 2 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 3 | The images together speak of the losses within language incurred through the passages of migration — losses accrued through violation , silence and often subtlety . |
| 4 | The basic modern administrative units broadly correspond to the parishes , manors , tithings and townships of the medieval and later landscape . |
| 5 | Admittedly , imprinting was usually thought of as the process by which animals normally learn about the characteristics of their species , even though a reference was occasionally made to ‘ asexual imprinting ’ ( Aberle et al . , |
| 6 | We need to look beyond the social position readers already occupy to the ways in which reading as an activity is itself structured in different contexts . |
| 7 | While ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ generally deals with terrorism and social injustice in far broader terms , a couple of the songs still refer to the troubles . |
| 8 | Another such religious calendar , from the deme of Erchia , is headed ‘ the greater demarchia ’ ( SEG xxi.541 = Sabben-Clare and Warman , Culture of Athens , LACTOR no. 234 ) , and these words probably refer to the duties of the deme magistrate or mayor , the demarch . |
| 9 | These squares now expand at the corners and erode along the sides , returning to square shape after another doubling of total generations . |
| 10 | It has been seen that singularities inevitably occur in the solutions describing the interaction region of colliding plane waves . |
| 11 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 12 | ( No one believes that last year 's award did wonders for the sales of New Scientist — how many of our readers even know about the awards ? ) |
| 13 | It can also be argued on behalf of management that transfer notices should not be mandatory if cessation of the executive 's employment with the company results from wrongful dismissal , redundancy , retirement at normal age , retirement due to ill-health or disability or death ; or if a majority of the non-executive directors and/or the directors so resolve with the investors ' approval . |
| 14 | This was the nineteenth-century English approach , and many such offences still survive in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 ( relating , for example , to injuries caused by gunpowder , throwing corrosive fluid , failing to provide food for apprentices , setting spring guns ) . |
| 15 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 16 | My father takes her to and from school and my parents both help at the weekends . ’ |
| 17 | Although no similar legal duty has been imposed upon the BBC , the Corporation has undertaken to ensure that its broadcasters also bow to the dictates of public decency . |
| 18 | Two of these strategies directly relate to the topics to be considered next in this chapter , namely ( 2 ) the provision of facilities ( rural service provision ) and ( 1 ) socioeconomic conditions ( rural deprivation ) and so attention is now turned to rural service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 19 | In the east , says Buckle , ‘ many bridges just sit on the columns like a stack of cards ’ . |
| 20 | For example , when describing experiments psychologists still refer to the subjects ' ‘ response ’ to the ‘ stimulus ’ materials . |
| 21 | I do think , however , that there are still prevalent many gross misconceptions of what universities do and what they should do in the modern age : and it may be that some of these misconceptions still drift about the corridors of the Department . |
| 22 | But sparrows still nest beneath the eaves . |
| 23 | Pigeons and sparrows also shower in the waterfalls . |
| 24 | Such pacts of silence with heterosexuals inevitably work against the challenges to heterosexism being made by lesbians . |
| 25 | Sir Arthur Nicholson , a contemporary observer noted : ‘ should the peasants excited by socialist and anarchist agitators be led on … and should the working classes simultaneously rise in the towns there will be a catastrophe such as history has rarely witnessed ’ . |
| 26 | Entry level electric guitars often suffer at the hands of cheap , toneless pickups . |
| 27 | If you thought that seeds and cuttings were the only way to increase your garden plants then turn to the Gardeners ' Manual for a host of practical ideas to try . |
| 28 | Not quite cos those are minims there look with the lines down , but the whole |
| 29 | ( Overleaf ) Whistling teal , or tree duck , and their l–rood of chicks apparently sail into the jaws of death . |
| 30 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |