Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 2 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 3 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 4 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 5 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 6 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 7 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 8 | TOM WOOD : If police catch you with a weapon , you 'll be charged . |
| 9 | It can presumably survive , even though it is edible to birds , because birds take it for a monarch , and avoid it . |
| 10 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , for so many reasons — because friends supported me in the faith that we would end up together . |
| 12 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 13 | Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked . |
| 14 | While women use them as a way of releasing tension , frustration , and rage they will have the illusion of doing something while nothing changes . |
| 15 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 16 | It is understood some of her attackers sat on her to pin her to the floor while others battered her round the head with baseball bats . |
| 17 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 18 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 19 | Some regard it purely as a means of conveying information , while others regard it as a means of building and maintaining relationships . |
| 20 | It is considered a separate family of the Cercopithecoidea by some on the basis of its teeth , while others attribute it to a separate family of the Hominoidea on the basis of its postcrania . |
| 21 | Some see care manager posts as a move into management while others view them as a progression of practice . |
| 22 | Hibs face a real test of character at Firhill tomorrow after Hearts knocked them off the top of the table . |
| 23 | A final act : Valerie Place , right , showed the US boxer , Riddick Bowe , and his wife , Judy , a Mogadishu centre hours before bandits killed her in an ambush |
| 24 | A HEALTHY baby girl whose twin sister died mysteriously in hospital , had ended up severely brain damaged after doctors left her in the care of nurse Beverley Allitt , a court heard yesterday . |
| 25 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 26 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said Mr Holloway was able to pick out Eyles after police took him around the town to look for his assailant . |
| 27 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 28 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 29 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 30 | When parents needed someone outside the family with whom to share a problem , the school ( usually through the head teacher ) provided ‘ the human face ’ . |