Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’ |
| 2 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 3 | Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) distinguish between what they call the bases of power ( or what is controlled that enables behaviour to be changed ) and sources of power ( or how individuals or groups come to control the bases of power ) . |
| 4 | North-east of the village the River Cary becomes the King 's Sedgemoor Drain , chief of the artificial ‘ rhines ’ or watercourses cut to drain the Somerset Levels , which lie below sea level . |
| 5 | Canada 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has signed an agreement with China 's Hubei San Gao to update cellular telephone systems in Hubei province : the Canadian holds 51% of the venture , with Hubei San Gao the remaining 49% . |
| 6 | She did not , thought Henry bitterly , as he dragged himself out of bed and weaved his way to the bathroom over Elinor 's discarded knickers , go to classes in being thin , or classes designed to allow the participants to hold one idea in their heads for more than five minutes . |
| 7 | The addition and removal of sub-assemblies and components from the tree may also create difficulties as jumps between " branches " may be inadvertently created or breaks produced making the data inaccessible through the tree structure . |
| 8 | Pupils know which keywords to use to find information since the keywords are part of their classwork and this helps to prevent lengthy and potentially confusing or searches designed to solve the problems of synonyms . |
| 9 | Certain anatomical shapes such as legs , arms , necks , feet or wings tend to give the game away . |
| 10 | Lesson Core — Observations here were made during teacher input of content — if male or female characters were discussed , eg in a Kestrel for a Knave , or examples used to illustrate a principle . |
| 11 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 12 | Within prolonged breeding species , individual frogs or toads have developed a variety of different reproductive strategies . |
| 13 | Comma Oil & Chemicals has won a Power for Efficiency and Productivity ( PEP ) award — part of Seeboard 's annual Business Energy Efficiency awards — following the installation of thermosafe induction heaters developed by LMK Engineering . |
| 14 | It would not have been surprising if Eva 's many gifts and accomplishments had brought the temptation to pride . |
| 15 | The health benefits and disciplines gained enhance the balance between our mind and body and make us more able to achieve our aims and to counter disease . |
| 16 | Having agreed this with the procedure owner , a procedure description is prepared , showing amongst other things , the resources and activities needed to meet the objectives , and this is compared with what actually exists . |
| 17 | Throughout the '60s and '70s there was an upsurge of movements and groups aiming to raise the level of consciousness and to offer religious and spiritual experience to those seeking personal meaning and direction . |
| 18 | Firstly , the loss of this source of revenue is a major blow to the many individuals and groups working to improve the quality of life in urban priority areas . |
| 19 | The Georgian mill owner 's house has been restored and houses displays exploring the history of the mill . |
| 20 | In the Gezira region of the Sudan , for example , growing more sorghum and groundnuts has increased the cotton pest , the Heliothis boll worm . |
| 21 | Scully and Sons have had the job for as long as I can remember , not because they are any good but because they are ruddy cheap . |
| 22 | He is bitterly humiliated when he is beaten in a fist-battle with Thomas Fox , arranged by the captain as the climax to a day of races and contests organised to keep the hands occupied while the ship is becalmed . |
| 23 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 24 | But Mount Kenya is over 17,000ft ( 5100m ) and we 'd also learnt that many walkers and climbers fail to reach the top simply because of altitude sickness . |
| 25 | Guatemala 's Minister of Energy and Mines has announced a plan to set up a series of solar generating stations in rural areas currently without electricity , and similar initiatives are being considered by the governments of El Salvador and Panama . |
| 26 | The vocational course in architecture seeks to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter the profession . |
| 27 | By this is meant that the student must have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to begin learning the task . |
| 28 | It became possible to instil the drill , discipline , and skills required to make the army an effective fighting force . |
| 29 | The expansion of towns and cities has increased the demand for development land for housing , industry , retailing and other activities . |
| 30 | Criteria for criterion-referenced assessment may be derived on the basis of an analysis of the subject matter in terms of the skills , concepts and strategies required to meet a criterion . |