Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Allocation of resources — Resourcing was a matter of concern , both the resources devoted to care programming and the way in which care programmes effectively allocate resources .
2 Hewlett-Packard Co and Lotus Development Corp duly joined forces to announce the HP 100LX handheld 80C186 machine yesterday : the machine uses Lotus 's cc:Mail Mobile package and the machine , measuring 6.3″ by 3.4″ by 1″ and has an 80 line by 25 character display , is $750 ; adaptors , MS-DOS linking packs and flash cards are offered as options for it ( CI No 2,160 ) .
3 Since virtually all credits are given to local or regional enterprises , much of the money thereby created returns as deposits to the credit-giving banks .
4 His long , thin musician-fingers deftly manipulate wires and crystal .
5 However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education .
6 Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems .
7 The Prince politely shook hands with six Peggottys , two Betsy Trotwoods , eight Mr Pecksniffs , seven Mr Fezziwigs , eight Mrs Fezziwigs , two Doras , a couple of Little Dorrits , two Miss Flites , a villainous gentleman who announced he was the convict Magwitch , and numerous other Lionisers too nervous to announce their identities .
8 As this model would predict , individuals in Belfast whose personal networks were closeknit tended to approximate closely to the stigmatized vernacular norms characteristic of the locality , which like other ‘ in-group ’ norms powerfully symbolized values of solidarity , reciprocity and to some extent opposition to standardized norms along with their associated values .
9 Similar in appearance are the cathedral corals , ( Sinularia species ) which are often purple in colour , and have fingerlike projections rather thank ridges on the polypary , thus being morphologically halfway between the encrusting leather corals and the bushy , tree-like soft corals , many of which are also species of Sinularia .
10 By and large , the retina only sends messages to the brain when the image on it changes .
11 The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric .
12 Under the new regime , the Ministry of Agriculture only tests animals when they get to the farm , if they 're told about it .
13 In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer .
14 Single-stranded 30 base long oligonucleotide probes for tumour necrosis factor α and interleukin 1Β were supplied by British Biotechnology ( Oxford , UK ) .
15 After a succession of incorrect forecasts , DPR suddenly switched tactics .
16 Narrow definitions of money only include items that can be spent directly : items such as cash and current accounts in banks ( since they can be spent directly by using cheques ) .
17 Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe .
18 The problem is that the vast majority of stand alone fax machines are set up to send faxes in low resolution .
19 His Mum only put flowers if people were coming .
20 Anglian , North West , Northumbrian , and South West all face charges , and Yorkshire is to be prosecuted on five cunts .
21 BRITISH RAIL literally cut corners to save time and money at Newton junction , a fatal accident inquiry in Glasgow heard yesterday .
22 Sheila especially had dreams of university .
23 This 2 week deferment period must be added to the compulsory 2 week deferment for hazardous activities eg winter sports , making benefit payable there from the 29th day of incapacity .
24 Codex at present only makes recommendations but its rules will become international standards with the settlement of the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) .
25 ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby ’ , he says .
26 In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss doors .
27 A computer only understands numbers , In order to deal with characters , each character is assigned a code number .
28 And the following month , July 1949 , Acheson apparently issued instructions that it was a ‘ fundamental decision of American policy that the United States does not intend to permit any further communist domination on the continent of Asia or in South-east Asia ’ .
29 What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged .
30 Thus the total noted at present perhaps underestimates numbers .
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