Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slee expresses it very clearly : They need help in wrestling with the questions of identity , truth and commitment which the contemporary pluralism of beliefs and values poses more sharply than ever before and which are therefore very real and pressing questions for children of the secular century . |
| 2 | With only two circuits to book , and programmes changing less frequently than hitherto , fewer films were required . |
| 3 | Sergeants and Inspectors know almost exactly where an officer can be found at a certain time , and woe betide the constable who keeps his superior officer waiting . |
| 4 | If you 're selling cars , you 've got a guarantee warranty with it , and I think most customers are misled into believing that those guarantees and warranties cover far more than they do in fact . |
| 5 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 6 | Yet it appears that litigators and judges behaved little differently than in police courts . |
| 7 | I cited that 1,000-calorie total because , to my knowledge , all adults in normal health and circumstances burn up more than 1,000 calories daily . |
| 8 | She and your ma have spent this last week making cakes and pies to bring up here as soon as the weather allowed . ’ |
| 9 | The reproduction rates of some countries , regions and classes dropped more steeply than others . |
| 10 | Curfews were immediately imposed in the area and troops rounded up more than 100 people , mostly Hamas supporters . |
| 11 | ONE MAN was arrested and scuffles broke out yesterday as protesters battled to save a line of beech trees from being felled . |
| 12 | All organisations are made up of individuals and problems occur most frequently when the needs of the individual become lost in the needs and goals of the organisation . |
| 13 | He and Matchsticks blended in perfectly as had been predicted back in Teheran . |
| 14 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 15 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 16 | Private worlds , whether they are families or voluntary societies , turn out to be delusory sources of personal freedom : disillusionment and hopelessness follow behind the many human philosophies and religious ideas that modern men and women discard as carelessly as consumer toys . |
| 17 | Three dozen assorted fight fans and hangers-on and a dozen Mexican sportswriters and cameramen milled around listlessly as the self-proclaimed King of Boxing took the stage to deliver another high decibel paean of praise to hype his latest promotion . |
| 18 | We now try to duplicate for polynomials some of the basic definitions and theorems set down earlier when investigating Z. We shall find out that , despite the obvious differences in appearance between the elements of Z and those of Q[x] , the underlying structures of these two systems are quite similar . |
| 19 | John McNeill , for example , asserts that the ‘ … issue between Romans and Celts went far deeper than the recorded exchange of arguments indicates ’ . |
| 20 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 21 | But things calm down only when Dr Boron appears , who is then outwitted and all hell seems about to break loose when Superboron makes his entrance . |
| 22 | He had concocted all sorts of elaborate stories about why he wanted access , but things proved rather easier than he had expected . |