Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fungi grows in just these sites in wild cockroaches .
2 The look-up speed should be similar to the trie ( although this has not yet been established ) , but build times are much greater , especially for larger lexicons ( for example 5,705 words takes approximately 10 minutes to build , but 68,856 words takes just over 11 hours 3 ) .
3 And beneath , the copy-writers had reared a paradox that would have delighted Lewis Carroll : ‘ The family with two cars gets twice as many chores completed , so there 's more leisure to enjoy together ! ’
4 The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives .
5 Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever .
6 Indeed , the whole issue of how and why employers ( and trade unions ) formulate policy towards the employment of older workers requires much more detailed investigation than it has so far received , and it is an area in which economic analysis may prove to be more fruitful than radical political theory .
7 In conscious rats restitution of non-haemorrhagical lesions proceeds so quickly that re-epithelialisation of the denuded surface is nearly complete within 1 hour .
8 Goran 's two tournaments wins so far this year prove that he 's more than just a serving machine .
9 THE highly popular series of Scotsman Literary Lunches starts up again this month with an intriguing trio of authors : the actor Brian Blessed , the agony aunt Claire Rayner and the leading biographer Margaret Forster .
10 Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff .
11 The implantation of muons into materials forms not simply muonic atoms , but also complicated molecules whose nuclei are surrounded partly by muons and partly by electrons .
12 This is where the S3 chip comes in and Datapath claim that their card can improve common Windows functions by over 15 times .
13 One of the world 's toughest races gets underway later this year .
14 Recent work on Domesday and associated documents implies that late Anglo-Saxon government kept extensive written records .
15 ‘ One of her assistants comes in early each morning to begin the preparations for breakfast .
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