Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shearwaters and petrels belong to a group called the tube-noses , for their nostrils are protected by a pair of tubes which extend some way down the beak from its base and these give them a much better perception of smell than other birds have . |
| 2 | When newspapers start to report falls in Labour 's opinion-poll lead to 15% as a setback and Conservatives claim as a triumph Labour 's best-ever local-government result , we can safely conclude that the political landscape in Britain has changed . |
| 3 | Tai chi chuan requires that the hands , eyes , body and limbs perform as a whole , with the legs as the base and the waist as the axis . |
| 4 | Whilst there were obvious similarities between this tradition and nazism , its inspiration and origins occur in a period before anybody in England had heard of Hitler . |
| 5 | Staff and parents work as a team . |
| 6 | Indeed it is to be found in most legal systems whose constitutional arrangements and traditions provide for a separation of powers between the legislative , executive and judicial branches of government . |
| 7 | Field men , however , are constantly reminded that industrialists and farmers work on a principle of equity : they can readily discover the standards which their competitors must observe and may complain if they are being handicapped . |
| 8 | Behind this vast , westwerk , a long nave and aisles lead to a transept and two further , eastern towers . |
| 9 | As the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) said , dangers and difficulties arise as a result of the shortage of time that is available to consider the regulations . |
| 10 | Perhaps the champions , technology gatekeepers , and sponsors suffer from a lack of press — little glamour or apparent risk attached to their roles . |
| 11 | The Victoria Rottweiler Club actually owns its own tattoo machine and members apply for a number from the secretary of the club . |
| 12 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 13 | ‘ The Insect God ’ is a five-track affair that finds the Monks placing predictable emphasis on their fascination with the stranger side of the 1960s : Syd Barrett 's ‘ Let's Split ’ gets a splenetic shot in the arm , there 's a hefty dose of home grown acidic madness in the shape of an eight-minute ‘ mini rock-opera ’ , and proceedings clatter to a close with the chaotic run through The Mothers Of Intervention 's ‘ Who Are The Brain Police ? ’ . |
| 14 | This environment is one where the users and analysts work as a team rather than as expert and non-expert . |
| 15 | On page 624 Hurwitz and colleagues report on a prompting system for diabetes surveillance independent of practices themselves . |
| 16 | Both poinsettias and cyclamens benefit from a summer outdoors . |
| 17 | Staff and inmates meet in a culture of machismo , of men being tough . |
| 18 | The American lark bunting has a similar breeding system , but males mate with a maximum of two females . |
| 19 | Existing methods are expensive and inefficient — but chemists hope for a breakthrough in at least one area of research , converting sunlight directly into chemical energy , for example . |
| 20 | Most of the dolphins are snared in the driftnets of commercial fishermen , but others die as a result bombing , stabbing , spearing , electrocution and mutilation . |