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

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1 ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God .
2 All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time .
3 The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day .
4 Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’
5 Although the atomic beam pulses spread out during a particular measurement , owing to velocity dispersion , calculations show that the mean density quoted here is the important measure .
6 The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 .
7 The lines of the images stand out from the high quality Montval paper and are accompanied by a braille text .
8 Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text .
9 The double sweep 1 : both fighters square off in the right stance .
10 The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world .
11 There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road .
12 If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple .
13 If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple .
14 Hormones pass back to the pituitary gland , regulating its sexual function .
15 Bush Vark 's First Day Out by Charles Fuge ( MacMillan , £6.95 ) Winner of The Mother Goose Award and the MacMillan Prize 1988 Three pairs of creaturely eyes stare out from the deep black inside covers of Bush Vark 's First Day Out , whetting young appetites for nocturnal mystery and the pleasurable horrors encountered by Charles Fuge 's cheery little vark , with his slippery passivity and plain good fortune .
16 For consistency , we use a standard predictive scheme based upon thirty-five predictors representing the influences set out in the general model of media influence described in Chapter 1 .
17 In South Africa , only mad dogs and security guards go out in the last white summer
18 And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ?
19 Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor , gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth .
20 The winners go on to the national finals in York , the winners of that may have a chance of selection for the Paralympics in Barcelona .
21 The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity .
22 These two types of meaning are distinguished by the terms semantic meaning ( the fixed context-free meaning ) and pragmatic meaning ( the meaning which the words take on in a particular context , between particular people ) .
23 The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg .
24 Gradually all the parties come around to the same view .
25 Steps lead up to a higher level platform where surprises are found above the cases down below : the head of a moose and whole of an alligator , to name two .
26 FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London .
27 Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design .
28 A side view of the decamer ( Fig. 1 b ) shows that CsA-binding loops of CypA are on one face of the pentamer whereas the secondary structure elements line up on the opposite surface .
29 Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction .
30 If deconstruction in a purest sense is only of limited interest to a study which is asserting that texts emerge out of a particular culture called the English Renaissance , it is also true that , fortunately , there is little pure deconstruction about .
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