Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are unlikely to find a series of fronted objects or complements similar to the series of fronted temporal adjuncts quoted above . |
| 2 | In the analysis outlined above , it should not matter whether a central government cuts taxes or gives lump-sum grants to local authorities . |
| 3 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 4 | Whereas Marx often used this term to refer generally to what I have called the division by sectors or branches many recent writers have used it to refer to the division of functions , found within all branches in a capitalist economy , between the ‘ exploiters ’ or ‘ controllers ’ of labour power and the direct production workers . |
| 5 | If the driver does not respond , a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available . |
| 6 | The Order applies , disapplies or modifies all references to solicitors in other legislation , to cover recognised bodies . |
| 7 | The aim is to construct a set of modules and utilities that provides user-oriented software tools for laboratory applications of computers . |
| 8 | Mr Falah , who is president of an association of Libyan Jews that includes two Israeli members of parliament , recently spent two hours mulling over old times with Colonel Qaddafi , and emerged with a promise of compensation for Jewish property sequestrated by the Libyan regime . |
| 9 | However , in selecting people for jobs , it is the current profile of goals that provides vital background and career history to date . |
| 10 | Such assumptions make gender differences seem inevitable , and reinstate the apartheid between female and male subjects that characterizes much traditional sex differences psychology . |
| 11 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |
| 12 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |
| 13 | Joanna Wood , 48A Pimlico Road , SW1 , is one of those shops that sells charming fripperies , the sort of place where you can be sure of finding the very thing for someone who would prefer to buy their own toaster but who would love to be given a Limoges breakfast set or monogrammed shoe-bag . |
| 14 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 15 | The growing interest in German and Japanese in some parts of the world and the fact that the US looks likely to have more Spanish speakers than Anglophones some time in the next century may have an impact eventually . |
| 16 | Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) . |
| 17 | In both cases it is the position of the lips that conveys much of the vital information . |
| 18 | Roundabouts and swings all the while . |
| 19 | I have always found frogs and toads abhorrent . |
| 20 | The machine holds 12 place settings and has quick-wash and low-temperature economy wash as two of its eight programmes , £359.99 |
| 21 | Fitted with Zanussi 's Aquasave water , detergent and energy-reduction system , the machine takes 12 place settings and has seven programmes , a rinse-and-hold facility , quick-wash , wash without drying ( to save time ) and a low-salt indicator light . |
| 22 | Gasping for breath , legs and backs aching and chafing , we stood at the finish , bent double , dripping sweat , while the Corporals read out the times . |
| 23 | In Europe , in 1981 , there were over 500 databases and databanks available from over 50 hosts . |
| 24 | A knowledge of police systems therefore requires an analysis of both sides of the coin , to explore how anti-structure defines structure and in turn redefines and motivates other anti-structural elements in the system , for anti-structural activity has the potential to make bearable some of the constraints inherent in such a closed world as the police . |
| 25 | A Guide is kind to animals and respects all living things . |
| 26 | Our ability is mainly due to the brain which receives information about the brightness and wavelengths of light hitting the eyes and converts these into a multi-coloured , three-dimensional image . |
| 27 | On the count of ten , the chosen child opens his eyes and has three chances to guess who is holding the bell behind his back . |
| 28 | But what else do you expect from a system which rewards usurpers and conmen and punishes those who simply get on with the job ? |
| 29 | According to an NFU spokesman , the legislation reflects local bye-laws and incorporates much of the unions ' own code of practice , which until now have together governed straw and stubble burning . |
| 30 | Love makes concessions and gives mutual support . |