Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 2 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 3 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 4 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 5 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 6 | Liquids much above 30 per cent tend to be unstable , unless alcohol or urea is included , which adds to the expense so liquid products rarely exceed this level . |
| 7 | It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making . |
| 8 | While such inducements presumably have some positive effect , later discussion will note that management control over their terms casts doubt on the extent to which they secure an identity of interests with shareholders , and the danger that they create pressures for short-term increases in accounting profits or merely permit management to extract an increased proportion of company revenues . |
| 9 | Chapter 11 is different from British ‘ receivership ’ , where the courts mostly sack existing management and put a finance — but , some would say , not a business — expert in charge . |
| 10 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 11 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 12 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 13 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 14 | Concern about skin cancer and the pain caused by overexposure to the sun are reasons enough to take sensible precautions if sunbathing . |
| 15 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 16 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 17 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 18 | Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them . |
| 19 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 20 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 21 | War had resulted from the separate acts of various leaders , none of whom wanted war as the outcome , and these separate acts so reinforced mutual fears and suspicions that war became , in a sense , unavoidable . |
| 22 | Exact equivalents between UK qualifications and overseas qualifications can rarely be given , but the notes below give some idea of the recognition granted to some qualifications . |
| 23 | There was an obvious need to bring operations together to maintain high levels of customer service and cut the proliferation of unnecessary costs which arose from being in five separate sites . |
| 24 | The emissions only contained one part per million of hydrochloric acid . ’ |
| 25 | Brittle Power is very much a continuation of the Lovins canon : the concerted challenge to most of the percepts apparently underlying current official thinking about energy — this time overturning the most ponderous applecart of all . |
| 26 | for a variety of reasons only work certain days . |
| 27 | In fastening the strips together to construct any model , choice has to be made of the correct size of nut and bolt involving both sorting , matching and then screwing . |
| 28 | So obvious are these vertical shafts and so compelling an attraction that it is usual on a fine day to find a line of cars parked along the roadside and people of all ages timidly visiting each one to peer into the depths . |
| 29 | The products alone cost many millions , to which the cost of professionals ' time should be added . |
| 30 | It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 . |