Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major conclusion from cross-sectional studies based on PIMS is that ROI increases significantly as market share increases . |
| 2 | In that case switching away from equity and into debt offers two potential advantages : it tends to concentrate ownership ( both equity and debt ) into fewer hands that may care more about how the firm is run ; and it provides a clear discipline for managers . |
| 3 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 4 | If difficulties of that kind get out of hand , a crisis state develops . |
| 5 | But generally it was felt that mothers could be relied upon to exert themselves on behalf of their children and that mismanagement resulted more from ignorance than from vice . |
| 6 | You know little kids coming out of school and going straight on the road . |
| 7 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 8 | In division by 10 each figure moves down in place value while the decimal point stays in place . |
| 9 | Rejecting Galen 's theory , that blood passes directly from right to left ventricle , he proposed a vital role for the lungs , where a vital spirit emerged from the mixture of air and blood . |
| 10 | That schools differ widely in outlook , expertise and resources , and that such differences help to influence the degree to which individual pupils may find it difficult to progress has been one of seminal emphases of the Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Another marked difference between the effects of cholera toxin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide or prostaglandins is that secretion stopped promptly after prostaglandin or vasoactive intestinal polypeptide infusion . |
| 12 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 13 | No computer industry in the world has developed without government support of some kind , although the mechanisms of this support vary considerably in market and non- market economies . |
| 14 | The short answer is that we can not , and that structures of this kind do not in fact evolve . |
| 15 | This opportunity to strike out for independence was precisely what her fiery Arien temperament craved ! |
| 16 | This case covers perhaps in classic form the problematic use of a woman 's previous sexual history in determining the outcome of a rape trial . |
| 17 | I am aware that Carl Bridgewater 's parents must suffer every time this case comes up for review , but they too , surely , must want true justice to prevail . |
| 18 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 19 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 20 | This measure came largely in response to suggestions made to the government in April by representatives of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 21 | The first moves in this direction began soon after independence , with the ‘ Education with Production ’ programme . |
| 22 | ‘ Few cases end up in court , but where necessary , the backing of the law will be sought to enforce acceptable standards . ’ |
| 23 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 24 | This provision ranges widely in form and presentation with major concerts , recitals , plays , celebrity lectures , opera , dance , films , demonstrations , exhibitions of works of art and even an award-winning Summer Festival of Extra Mural Activities designed for visitors and tourists . |
| 25 | This provision ranges widely in form and presentation with major concerts , recitals , plays , celebrity lectures , opera , dance , films , demonstrations , exhibitions of works of art and even an award-winning Summer Festival of Extra Mural Activities designed for visitors and tourists . |
| 26 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 27 | It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa . |
| 28 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 29 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 30 | The argument that is to be found most frequently in the writings of the philosophers who held this conception does not in fact relate to colours and sounds , though colours and sounds certainly received a good deal of attention . |