Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 2 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 3 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 4 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 5 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 6 | Above : Unidentified regular infantry unit in field dress ; the fact that some enlisted men wear the crossed rifles on the left side of their slouch hats presumably dates the photograph after July 1899 , when the badge was authorized ( though for wear on the front ) . |
| 7 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 8 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 9 | If contestants successfully remembered the prizes they won them . |
| 10 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 11 | Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) . |
| 12 | ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . ) |
| 13 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 14 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 15 | Willie picked up a soft brown-paper package and with trembling fingers slowly untied the string . |
| 16 | they gon na have to they gon na have to pass a lot of land to build houses on to get the bloody rev revenue back in the town |
| 17 | This means that in future years the revenue accounts effectively treat the use of these assets as being free . |
| 18 | As each landing became more hazardous , authorities eventually had no alternative but to declare the field completely unserviceable . |
| 19 | This is an important development , which allows litigants before domestic courts effectively to subpoena the Commission . |
| 20 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 21 | It is difficult now to realise the scandalised horror with which not only the critics , but the general public in the 1920s and 1930s , greeted the fact that he could have used Victorian magazine illustrations fro producing the series of paintings called Echoes , or make portraits from press or publicity portraits of people such as the Prince of Wales , or public events such as Miss Earhart 's Arrival of 1932 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 23 | More studies are needed to ensure that the baits effectively attract the pest . |
| 24 | Control individuals show weak staining in the apical region of the enterocytes thereby showing an uptake of PT-gliadin . |
| 25 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 26 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 27 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 28 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 29 | Destiny Technology claims the code name created confusion between USL 's operating system and its controller software and hardware products with its customers though none of its products apparently bear the name Destiny . |
| 30 | The pre-pubescent shrieks suddenly reach a crescendo as the chugging electronic beat of the opening bars of ‘ The Locomotion ’ blasts out of the vast sound system . |