Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The total amount of vegetables we each eat per year since 1982 has gone from 221lb to 204lb .
2 However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it .
3 The only thing that occurs to me er er and now yo your veteran day from last year a a does any of that , how does you know , cos he does it , how does any of that sit with Rob or do we just say right well we do cos
4 We took the 09:30 ferry to Dunkirk and met a driver from Perth .
5 " But I 'm not sure that we ought to leave Maurice , though , " she said , licking each linger in turn .
6 Voluntary arrangements under the terms of Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 provide for individuals a procedure akin to that which administration provides for companies .
7 2 Change in communication media
8 As experience with the procedure has increased a wide range of functional results has been reported ; some patients achieve virtually normal bowel function , whereas a few suffer from urgency and frequency of defecation and even incontinence .
9 Some discriminate against University graduates .
10 Some concentrate on occupation and are run as industrial units .
11 In Sussex this species is largely confined to Chichester and Pagham Harbours , where a few remain to summer in many years , although totals of more than 50 are most unusual .
12 Surprisingly few remain in winter .
13 The difference between the two poets corresponds ( not quite exactly , because the nature and history of French verse differs so greatly from English ) to the distinction that the French make between vers libre and vers libéré ; between , we may say , free verse and freed verse .
14 It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations .
15 I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease
16 So you know , get say people from this country and America doing it , and they would come out different say to people from Japan , because their culture is different and certain different things are expected of them .
17 Details of seven antarctic oasis areas of size range 8–1000 km 2 appear in Table 3.6 .
18 The significance of proportions was tested using χ 2 test , and the Mantel-Heinzel χ 2 test for significance of the odds ratio was used to compare the effects of alcohol and tobacco consumption .
19 For this we used the EGRET software , in which the formula for the χ 2 test for trend in stratified and unstratified analysis was taken from Breslow and Day .
20 Thus the prevalence of oncogenic human papillomavirus increased with the severity of the neoplastic lesion ( χ 2 =14.97 , df=1 , p<0.001 ; χ 2 test for trend ) .
21 Differences between the groups were assessed with the χ 2 test for proportions and unpaired t tests ( after log transformation of non-normal distributions ) .
22 Each clinical finding was assessed by χ 2 test for association with the outcomes of hypoxaemia and radiographic pneumonia .
23 The answer to Ross Ferguson 's ( Letters , 24 March , p 840 ) is as follows : Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire , Some say in ice .
24 However , it had been demolished , some say by Cromwell .
25 It was reminiscent of Wayne Phillips 's 1985 exit at Edgbaston , caught by Gower off Lamb 's instep .
26 The final route climbed of the selection made here , was the steep eliminate of Absolution ( E5 ) , fittingly pioneered in 1987 by sea cliff virtuoso Pat Littlejohn .
27 Most Ethernet cards have both thick and thin connectors , but some also have an RJ-45 plug for UTP cabling .
28 Some grow in clusters like grapes ; some are larger , more elongated and solitary .
29 Ronni felt a swooping , irrational plummet of disappointment .
30 Despite some shift by farmers towards keeping hens free range or in large percheries ( which produce ‘ barn ’ eggs ) , some 90% of hens are still kept in battery cages .
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