Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption .
2 Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’
3 Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues .
4 The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack .
5 Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition .
6 Should the change in relationships bring about an unexpected clash with yet another component domain , then it may be sufficient to display only the excursion boxes .
7 Winds blowing over lakes pick up a tremendous amount of moisture which is then precipitated downwind of the lakes .
8 Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group .
9 Inside , the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design .
10 Bonuses make up an important part of their total annual earnings .
11 Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper .
12 SCOTLAND FANS SWARM ROUND THE WEE MAN
13 These honours subjects range over the whole field of legal interest .
14 Their eyes open around the ninth day .
15 LMS delegates to schools control over the major part of their budgets .
16 The means given beside each item are taken from Reason , Manstead , Stradling , Baxter & Campbell ( 1988 ) who had 520 drivers fill in the 50 item questionnaire .
17 The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature .
18 They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system .
19 The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind .
20 Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows .
21 Five-foot sash cramps sort out the main frame ; the brackets need special treatment .
22 By contrast , as Collins ( 1975 ) points out , more literary styles trade off an essential ambiguity .
23 At the end of the taught portion of the course , MSc candidates carry out a substantial project .
24 As a point of reference it will be assumed that for a supernova collapse the gravitational waves carry off a total energy of in a burst of milliseconds length and at a frequency of about I kHz .
25 Singing together unifies and inspires us ; music touches our emotions , and words take on a deeper meaning .
26 Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians .
27 The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) .
28 Project B remits larger cash inflows spread over a five-year period as opposed to the three years of cash inflows from Project A. Discounted cash flows would provide a rational basis for comparing these two projects on an equitable basis .
29 These projects range over the entire field of the life of the Church : the establishment of new dioceses ; the training of catechists , lay leaders , nuns , priests ; the building of churches , parochial centres , school centres ; preaching the Gospel by press , television and radio ; hospitals , clinics , leprosaria , disaster relief , medicines , transport and other miscellaneous works .
30 The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle .
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