Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reports mostly provide information for the donors ; many are in English ( the national language of Mozambique is Portuguese ) . |
| 2 | The generals rarely send orders to the troops . |
| 3 | The central square , and its decoration , were absent when the mosaic was uncovered , but the borders as well as the kind and placement of motif in this work alone suggest affinities with the mosaics from North Hill and insula 34 , Colchester . |
| 4 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |
| 5 | Of course , you only get UB for the days you are unemployed . |
| 6 | These assignments together carry 40% of the marks for the area of study . |
| 7 | We learn such skills from our mothers , midwives , books and from our own inner promptings , and as we use them they become absorbed into everyday life , often so much so that we no longer realize just how much we have learnt and are capable of ; in fact , we only take notice of the areas in which we feel that we fail . |
| 8 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 9 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 10 | A restructured CAP must a ] so take account of the interests of the Third World , for instance by reducing the production of the sugar cane substitutes which reduce exports from many poorer countries . |
| 11 | Examining these theories from pragmatics will involve us in a substantial digression from our main concern : which is to account for our intuitions of coherence and thus gain insight into the needs of the language learner , who after all aims to be able to produce coherent discourse , not isolated sentences . |
| 12 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 13 | In sport , just look at football ; in music , just watch Top of the Pops ; in literature , there is no outstanding current writer or poet . |
| 14 | It can be argued that they also produce an increase in civil service patronage in that senior civil servants generally advise ministers about the appointments , and quite often important chairmanships are awarded to recently retired civil servants . |
| 15 | We have forgotten how to read the winds or easily find directions from the stars ; we do not know any more how to read the landscape , and you , Creggan , can not recognize friend from enemy among our own kind . |
| 16 | Senior civil servants somehow find time from the burdens of office to sit around deliberating over who really deserves what . |
| 17 | And then just use bits of the tapes . |
| 18 | If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels . |
| 19 | If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels . |
| 20 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |
| 21 | We still await determinations of the ages of the rock itself or of any of its components , but the degree of cosmic-ray bombardment is being measured to see if it is consistent with the short interval required to project material from the Moon to the Earth . |
| 22 | Scent and colour still run riot in the gardens and in early July this , and Ravello 's cathedral , become venues for a Wagner music festival . |
| 23 | Give all notes their full value , and always pay attention to the rests . |
| 24 | The Zoroastrians still reckon dates by the years of the last Zoroastrian king of Iran , Yazdgard III of the Sassanian dynasty ( who was assassinated in AD 651 after the Arabs had overrun his kingdom ) , thus prolonging his imaginary reign through the centuries . |
| 25 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 26 | Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established . |
| 27 | There are many reasons why , sadly , too many of our youngsters still leave school without the skills of literacy and numeracy , but comprehensive reorganisation is not one of them . |
| 28 | In Brazil , despite some progress , half the remaining Awa-Guaja still flee contact with the whites and hundreds have been killed by local ranchers and loggers . |
| 29 | I sing in a band , from time to time , a woman 's band , sort of a makeshift bossa nova affair , though not one of us can play a thing and we always need help from the boys . |
| 30 | We still have doubts about the effects of GCSE — but if we did n't teach for it we would be handicapping unforgivably the pupils in our charge . |