Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 2 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
| 3 | Such fiction marches happily with political impassivity and an acquiescence in things as they are . |
| 4 | Can you clearly , cogently and correctly define and present the copyright and Intellectual Property issues involved in the activities listed below to senior colleagues and to your directors , or to your clients if you work freelance or in an agency ? |
| 5 | Warples ' ( 1980 ) adaptation of the Lopatin ( 1971 ) method of calculating source rock maturity , though open to theoretical objections , gives results which in many cases accord well with observed hydrocarbon occurrences , and has provided the petroleum geologist with a ready rule-of-thumb means of taking the time factor into account . |
| 6 | When he died they found seven thousand pounds in notes hidden away in different places all over his cottage … ’ |
| 7 | High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing . |
| 8 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 9 | Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans . |
| 10 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 11 | Decorating your Christmas tree with chains made up of red chillies is just one of the original ideas in the company 's seasonal title Malcolm Hillier 's Christmas ( Price : £12.99 ) . |
| 12 | The bus rocked and skidded to a halt ; a horse-drawn delivery van close behind them swerved violently — the horse reared , its front hooves lashing wildly in thin air — someone screamed , the frightened horse whinnied and plunged and Mabel , struck down by flying hooves , lay motionless upon the roadway as one wheel of the van ran over her breast , and her life 's blood dribbled away into the gutter . |
| 13 | Peak numbers are fairly consistently present in January and early February ; numbers in December are often quite low , and the birds disperse rapidly in late February and March . |
| 14 | IMMATURE SOILS have indistinct or weakly developed horizons , generally restricted to surface organic horizons or A horizons resting directly on little-altered parent material or rock . |
| 15 | This forecast rate of increase simply did not materialize , and once again British cities got by with incremental adjustments , while an accelerated process of decentralization helped to transfer traffic flows from the centre to a series of nodes within the city region . |
| 16 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 17 | An intense young woman , passionate about her are — and perhaps less passionate about being regarded as a ‘ portraitist ’ — Sarah kicks out against preconceived notions of current portraiture . |
| 18 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 19 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 20 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 21 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 22 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 23 | In fact , the rate at which a bee learns each component differs dramatically between various geographic races of honey bee , strongly implicating a genetic basis for the different learning curves . |
| 24 | Garages cash in on chipped windscreens |
| 25 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 26 | Recall that constructivism refers only to mental representations at the level of the input systems , as entities which can be translated , more or less directly , into the language of neuropsychology . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax made the point that the rundown of long-stay care for the elderly in our health service and the move towards the elderly having the opportunity to go only into private nursing care is to be deprecated . |
| 28 | Early neolithic farmers favoured multistrand crescentic necklaces made up of tubular and disc-shaped beads kept apart by laterally perforated oblong spacer beads and pulled together by triangular toggles . |
| 29 | Furthermore , in vitro binding analyses demonstrated that the mutations interfered directly with CytR-DNA interactions whereas binding of cAMP-CRP remained unchanged . |
| 30 | They were ably supported by the Corradini Ensemble and the University Singers , two groups made up of current students . |