Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the festival of Christmas had arrived , and both papal and royal courts joined together to celebrate in St Peter 's basilica . |
| 2 | Their meanings change continually to suit the circumstances in which they are used . |
| 3 | These tendencies became especially marked in the canal mania of the 1790s when , according to an enthusiast in 1796 , " perseverance having vanquished prejudice , the fire of speculation was lighted and canals became the subjects of general conversation " . |
| 4 | SGB 's approach to computerised personnel records therefore incorporated from the start a facility to interrogate the Group computer ( initially an ICL 1300 , later an ICL 1904E and currently a Burroughs 6700 system ) by means of a visual display unit on the desk of the Personnel Manager . |
| 5 | Not only was it rare to visit clients ' premises , but the ‘ audited ’ accounts produced usually contained an amount for stock which was simply plucked out of the air by the client . |
| 6 | In summary the model may be used as part of a learning sequence , so the teacher must ask the question ‘ has the learner the requisite knowledge and skills to enable further learning to take place ? ’ |
| 7 | Many partnerships , of course , are characterised by much more superficial , less close relationships between education and business where , crucially , activities remain largely separate from the mainstream activities of both and owned only by those individuals who are involved rather their organisations . |
| 8 | As the army 's innately conservative values became increasingly influenced by ultranationalist thought , the villages from which many soldiers came continued to be seen as fertile areas of support . |
| 9 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 10 | The projects failed both to protect natural forest , and to improve prospects for the poorest people in the area , according to the report 's author , consultant Michael Flint . |
| 11 | I noticed with amusement that the tapestries hanging there illustrated the seven deadly sins . |
| 12 | Staff from our businesses and Estates met recently to see how networking works and how it could increase our share of business in the water industry . |
| 13 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 14 | And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other . |
| 15 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 16 | We visited Ferrymead on Waitangi Day to see the penny-farthing races and a staged Victorian wedding , and I had a ride on a ‘ sociable ’ , a bike from the 1890's where the riders sit side-by-side sharing one set of handlebars . |
| 17 | As the game progressed Tranmere 's defenders became more composed and , in the closing minutes , they went in search of a winning goal and caused some heart-flutterings among the home supporters . |
| 18 | Osaka merchants became increasingly specialized in function and their number expanded rapidly . |
| 19 | In trying to provide answers to the questions why have social policies failed significantly to reduce social class inequalities , it is best to look at each of the three steps in the process separately — access , use and outcome . |
| 20 | After a while , the two programmes became strangely blurred into one . |
| 21 | At the same time , most people 's daily lives and face-to-face contacts remain relatively limited to small-scale localities . |
| 22 | They then drew up rules , based on the data , showing how these acts combine together to form moves and how moves combine to form various kinds of exchange — rather as grammarians formulate rules describing how words combine into phrases , or phrases into clauses . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , apart from the geographical distribution of general practitioners , there were no explicit policies to equalise either access to or use of services . |
| 24 | Patricof plans to invest further sums in Neill allowing it to make acquisitions on the Continent . |
| 25 | Parallel to the thaw in relations with China , Soviet-Indonesian contacts developed rapidly following Suharto 's acceptance of a long-standing invitation to visit Moscow in September 1989 [ see p. 36893 ] . |
| 26 | The weights and fuel consumption times given below refer to the larger CV470 . |
| 27 | At a workshop on tribology 87% of attendees admitted now knowing their company 's overall costs due to friction and wear . |
| 28 | Several students told me of their plans to go abroad to live because the party would never release its tight grip over people 's lives . |
| 29 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 30 | Second , this cladogram is an exercise in inference because many of the extinct groups remain poorly documented ; the text offers justification for many of the placements . |