Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Pupils are dissatisfied , and industry and commerce remain somewhat dismayed at the results from our schools .
2 Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter .
3 Those of the arms are particularly interesting because the fists are either clenched or the fingers flattened thus the lines and shapes made only appear slightly rounded by the folds in the sleeves .
4 So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on .
5 A shared socket interface provides the socket support not found in the Windows NT TCP/IP kernel , along with the network access required by Beame & Whiteside 's INETD Super Server .
6 He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers .
7 Towards 2000 will see members of FYT Regional groups and committees meet together to work on the needs of marginalised young people in the last decade of this century .
8 They also vary greatly depending upon the attitudes adopted by individual ministers .
9 ( e ) An immediate environment in which , during the past years , three murders have actually taken place , where prostitution , larceny and violence are commonplace in the lives of many of the children and where the hangings that take place at Pentonville Prison periodically create deep disquiet in the minds of all our children .
10 He noted that this would reduce the risk of accidental or inadvertent conflict between the superpowers , aid the depolarisation of regional conflicts , and raise both states in the eyes of the non-aligned nations .
11 ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington .
12 The harbour looked mysterious : the sun had broken through but mist still lay over the docks .
13 Jonadab always relied on the leaves for treating any horse which developed an infection or chill in the bladder .
14 I set out to get inside the heads of gynaecologists , but what remains in my head is the freeze-frame of that young women with her legs held apart , unconscious , still unaware of a verdict which is likely to affect her whole life .
15 Chelmsford have beaten the Surrey side twice on their own ice and know how to cope with the likes of Sean Murphy , Darren Zinger and Danny O'Hanlon .
16 The modern way is to meet a group of patients over a party-type meal and discuss how to cope with the problems that may arise .
17 In 1978 in the whole of the city , not a single woman from the school meals service regularly went to the meetings of either of the relevant unions , NUPE and the then G & M ( General and Municipal Workers Union ) .
18 I 've read about it , you do exercises and train yourself , and then when the time comes you pop behind a bush and reappear with the baby slung on your hip , and go on toiling in the paddy-fields as if nothing had happened . "
19 Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down .
20 Reading the labels helps the sales assistant become better informed about the products on sale — and thus able to advise and help the customer more effectively .
21 One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing .
22 Jump down and go right , cross the river on the cake and go up on the platforms , collect the cocoa bean at the top of the platforms , go back down the platforms , go left across the river , jump up on the sherbet fountain and collect the blue object above you , go straight left along the platforms and throw the blue object at the button to start the lift , go up on the lifts and collect the cocoa bean , go down , left , down , left across the rivers and into the cup to complete the level .
23 Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves .
24 After many generations of cumulative selection in a particular place , the local animals and plants become well fitted to the conditions , for instance the weather conditions , in that place .
25 As governors , heads and teachers become increasingly enmeshed in the complexities of managing resources under LMS ( Audit Commission 1991 ) it is important that they are able to keep the management of learning as their central objective .
26 I think it 's when you become inappropriately absorbed around the areas of food I think , too , because I work with teenagers
27 while the rich countries get richer , the poor ones stay firmly saddled with the customs and practices of the 19th century .
28 As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends .
29 There are 3 arches ; shoot the righthand arch and go tight left between the rocks and shingle , then it is 400 yds rack to Twin Islands .
30 Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey .
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