Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 2 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 3 | They will exchange opinions , becoming united in their views or strongly opposed to each other . |
| 4 | The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not . |
| 5 | Many were wearing their Sunday best , the ladies in hats or newly pressed headscarves , the gents in overcoats and polished shoes . |
| 6 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 7 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 8 | Appropriate amounts of partially purified DNA binding domain peptides or nuclear extracts were incubated on ice with 0.1ng of end-labelled DNA fragment probes or freshly made ‘ prime cut ’ probes in buffer giving final concentrations of 10mM Tris.HCl pH8.0 , 1mM EDTA , 100mM NaCl , 1µg polydI.polydC , 0.1% NP40 and 50µg/ml BSA . |
| 9 | Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights . |
| 10 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 11 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 12 | Heads with wiglike hair are frequent in various eastern arts and surely served as a model , but the Greek geometry is entirely absent from them . |
| 13 | Of the non-QTS qualifications , the best known are those developed by the Royal Society of Arts and now administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate . |
| 14 | World Bank Development Reports classify countries according to Gross National Product ( GNP ) per capita , into low-income , middle-income , industrial market economies , high-income oil exporters and centrally planned economies . |
| 15 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 16 | Her backwardly turned ears and slightly lifted tail show that she is interested in mating , even though she may not be ready yet . |
| 17 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
| 18 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 19 | Suddenly , from the top of the bank , Buckthorn flung himself headlong into the scuffle , knocked one of the guards flying with a kick from his back legs and then closed with the other . |
| 20 | A MAN told the High Court sitting in Glasgow yesterday of an ordeal at an Argyll quarry during which he had been repeatedly beaten , burnt with a cigarette , had a car driven over his legs and almost hanged . |
| 21 | Incidentally , would residents please ensure that the covers and properly replaced — otherwise wind and rain can play havoc with contents . |
| 22 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 23 | In some respects it could be argued that diminishing populations need not necessarily be unwelcome in the cities : renewal can take place at lower densities and much needed environmental improvements can take place . |
| 24 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 25 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 26 | Plenty of stowage for groceries and effectively fiddled worktop areas in the neat galley |
| 27 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 28 | Like a human body , the body of your essay is made up of parts : in this case paragraphs and perhaps numbered or titled sections and subsections . |
| 29 | Er the problem with the job is it 's very tight inside there so we 've had to use cranes and basically poured concrete er ours is being done by a separate sub-contractor . |
| 30 | She immediately recognized Angel 's brothers and even overheard some of their conversation . |