Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 2 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 3 | Their report shows that you 're most likely to fall ill visiting Egypt , Gambia , Turkey and Latin America , while 18 per cent of Spanish holiday-makers suffer from some kind of lurgy . |
| 4 | In places tree-shrouded , though never oppressively so , in others suitably imposing , the crag does not possess — horror of horrors ! — a complete path under its length ; still less the sandy wastes that appear wherever climbers congregate in large numbers under your average grit crag . |
| 5 | Nearly all of these groups correspond with major divisions of living animals , so the broad base of classification was established by the Cambrian . |
| 6 | Norms develop about non-formal goals of the group , e.g. sport or other types of informal relaxation , outsiders , other groups . |
| 7 | Norms develop about internal regulation within the group , about interactions , power , language and discipline . |
| 8 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | The critical path in a PERT network is that in which the times appear in identical pairs in the left and right wings of the symbols forming it . |
| 10 | The critical path in a PERT network is that in which the times appear in identical pairs in the left and right wings of the symbols forming it . |
| 11 | Many people are struggling to get their hunters fit at this time of the year . |
| 12 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 13 | On such occasions , there is a process of mutual education and stimulation which can at times descend to mere manipulation of the delegates by the leadership and can also rise to a high level of discourse about the basic problems confronting the nation . |
| 14 | In the spacious restaurant the local chefs delight in colourful displays of hot and cold buffets , made up of the island 's abundant supply of fish and home grown fruits and vegetables . |
| 15 | The waves change from regular undulations to sharp crests separated by long flat troughs . |
| 16 | TV-scanned images suffer from two problems in addition to those of low spatial resolution ( i.e. large pixel size ) and relatively low contrast . |
| 17 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 18 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 19 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 20 | The eggs become loosely attached to the wall of the female 's uterus and blood vessels develop on either side of the contact so that the young are able to absorb sustenance from their mother 's blood . |
| 21 | Units concentrate on communicative ability with particular reference to defining graphs , maps , etc . |
| 22 | Sectors and units borrow from each other in many different ways . |
| 23 | This is especially true in applied areas , such as the study of psychopathology , where we are uncertain whether animals experience the same problems as humans and , if they do , we are uncertain about identifying which disturbances in animals correspond to particular disturbances in humans . |
| 24 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 25 | I hear ten thousand times ten thousand voices cry in needless answer to this wholly rhetorical question . |
| 26 | Perfect log-normal grain size distributions plot as straight lines on the probability paper . |
| 27 | Does this mean that our mental images depend on this amine in some way ? |
| 28 | The Aberdeen and Shetland mail steamers call at Wick Bay , weather permitting ; this clause has a deep meaning in it , as many can witness who have seen how the waves break on that shore at times . |
| 29 | Circuses which use animals do so for profit , and there is no satisfactory scientific evidence that animals benefit in any way from their experiences in such an establishment — they can not educate the public in the artificial environment of performing tricks , they only serve to entertain . |
| 30 | Yet work organizations depend on shared power in win-win cooperative effort . |