Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 2 | They should be accounted for separately only if the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other ; otherwise they should be accounted for as a single instrument . |
| 3 | Accounting for the individual instruments is required by paragraph 19 if ( and only if ) the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other . |
| 4 | The Council , or what was left of it now , nodded wisely although frankly none of them understood or cared much about mechanical things . |
| 5 | If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions . |
| 6 | Hobbes defines ‘ place ’ as the ‘ space which is possessed or filled adequately by some body ’ , and ‘ motion ’ as ‘ the privation of one place , and the acquisition of another ’ . |
| 7 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 8 | Or stuck together from various descriptions like an identikit picture ? |
| 9 | Acceptance of mystery — taking it for granted that the spirit is beyond our total comprehension , that this dimension can not easily be put into words , or expressed adequately in any art form . |
| 10 | Most of the financial systems now targeted at the Unix market have grown out of software that was originally designed for use on PCs , or ported across from older mainframe systems and out of date mid-range platforms . |
| 11 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 12 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 13 | They do n't want to get stabbed … or sent away for six months . |
| 14 | Calculate the over or under-absorbed overhead for each cost centre . |
| 15 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
| 16 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector with the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards Branch , said : ‘ The Order allows for the selling price to be indicated on the goods themselves , a ticket or notice close to the goods or grouped together with other prices on a list close to the goods to which it refers . |
| 17 | The entire small intestine was removed , and divided equally into four segments , ( segments of jejunum I , jejunum II , ileum I , and ileum II from proximal to distal ) . |
| 18 | In the wake of the election in Haringey , an allegedly independent campaign , the Parents ' Rights Group , was set up and led largely by working-class women . |
| 19 | It appears that having agreed on the structure , the meeting did not address the question of functions of the RAC and the development of jointly planned activity , outlined in Green 's original proposals , was ignored and led subsequently to competitive activity in Cambridgeshire , Essex and Norfolk . |
| 20 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 21 | Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another . |
| 22 | A turnstone in tortoiseshell plumage flicked over stones and pecked smartly at exposed food items . |
| 23 | Filters were blocked in HYB100 ( 20 mM Hepes-KOH ( 7.7 ) , 100 mM KCl , 2.5 mM MgCl 2 , 0.1mM EDTA , 1mM DTT , 0.05% NP40 ) + 5% marvel dried milk for 30 minutes , HYB100 + 1% marvel for 15 minutes and incubated overnight with 32 P-CREB ( ∼1ng/ml or ∼5 10 4 cpm/ml ) in HYB100 + 1% marvel . |
| 24 | They are about 0.5mm thick and made mainly of precious metals . |
| 25 | The night before , alone and drunk , he turned the Harley the wrong way on to busy St Peter Street downtown and rode awhile through oncoming traffic until a policeman mercifully stopped him . |
| 26 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 27 | He and Judith had married , and lived happily for five years , until , for reasons he still did n't understand , their joy had foundered , and the two had become one . |
| 28 | Then the king 's son took her home to his father 's palace , and they were married , and lived happily for many years . |
| 29 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 30 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |