Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) .
2 There are files of correspondence , rentals and accounts relating to the several divisions of the estate ; approximately 500 maps ( many being older items previously overlooked ) ; boxes on a miscellany of topics from industry and agriculture to education and churches ; and much that is as yet totally unsorted .
3 Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen.
4 It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution .
5 When she had left the bedroom he heard her feet scurrying for a few minutes , then the door slammed .
6 Institute president Ian Plaistowe , after reading a newspaper report of Mr Damant 's views , wrote to the Financial Times saying that : ‘ The reduction of differences in the accounting treatment of events and transactions arising in the same circumstances must surely remain as the standard-setters ’ prime objective' .
7 The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators .
8 What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources .
9 Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month .
10 ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse .
11 Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres .
12 The first is that the donations that would be made would go to charitable social service agencies providing for the same groups as statutory agencies .
13 Bouldery morainic drift is also extensive in the valleys radiating from the former centres of ice accumulation in the Harris mountains .
14 And it 's the trend which , in addition to its desire to see our juniors competing on the same surfaces as their international counterparts , has seen our own LTA encourage the court manufacturers in this country towards the cushioned acrylic type of tennis courts .
15 For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours .
16 The main difference between the races in the data so far discussed was that in the arrest rates of Blacks and Whites living in the same areas .
17 As is often the case in the creation of new ideas , there were many scholars working along the same lines as these theorists , particularly those trying to analyze the experience of the British Empire at the end of the nineteenth century , pre-eminently the ‘ social-liberal ’ J.A .
18 He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth .
19 The court must consider the need to avoid delay when an adjournment is sought for any reason but particularly where there are concurrent care and criminal proceedings arising from the same facts .
20 The lack of rearrangement may be caused by a loss of an as-yet unidentified cis -acting rearrangement-promoting element , as suggested by the dramatic differences in the extent of rearrangement in the wild-type and mutant alleles coexisting in the same thymocytes of TCR -β heterozygous mice ( Fig. 4 c , third lane from right ) .
21 I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued .
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