Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient is admitted to one of these units in order to allow the carer the freedom to go away on holiday , as it is well recognized that carers need a proper break at intervals , so you should not feel guilty about taking advantage of the opportunity . |
| 2 | The Klein bottle has a single continuous surface that passes through the bulb to connect inside with outside . |
| 3 | The fragmentation led inevitably to violence and misery . |
| 4 | Didcot 's six cooling towers already dominate the local landscape … but under new planning permission announced today by energy minister Tim Eggar they could be joined by several more . |
| 5 | On Nov. 19 the government had rushed through new capital market reforms banning insider trading in stocks and shares amid indications that foreign investors , granted permission to invest directly in stock market operations [ see p. 39099 ] , had been deterred by the absence of regulatory mechanisms . |
| 6 | Judo aces Ray Stephens and Kate Howey have had money stopped just like archer Simon Terry — as revealed in the Mirror . |
| 7 | The decision to go ahead with subtitling was taken after a successful experiment pioneered at Central South last year . |
| 8 | Are ward/department duty rotas planned well in advance ? |
| 9 | Sue 's hair was wound onto rollers using the directional technique , following the contours of her head and giving a more natural result by allowing the hair to fall naturally into place . |
| 10 | This proposal to establish a broad range of quality assurance standards for different services reflects the Labour Party 's concern that current VFM investigations concentrate overly on cost-cutting . |
| 11 | INROADS DRIVES AHEAD WITH SAFETY |
| 12 | Under these definitions : 35 subjects ( 16.5% ) had no sexual experience beyond kissing and/or self-masturbation ; 87 subjects ( 40.5% ) had sexual experience limited both in extent and variety ; 33 subjects ( 15.5% ) had sexual experience limited in variety but not extent ; 16 subjects ( 7.5% ) had sexual experience limited in extent but not variety ; 40 subjects ( 19.0% ) had sexual experience relatively diverse in both extent and variety ; 3 subjects had homosexual experience only ; 4 had bisexual experience ; The experience of 2 could not be ascertained . |
| 13 | However , as might be anticipated from the progress registered earlier in connection with improvements regarding alcohol knowledge , attitudes and behaviour , instead of 53 per cent only 42 per cent of the ‘ five or more ’ male offenders were reconvicted . |
| 14 | However the original route of the tramroad passed immediately in front of the school gates and then to a sharply banked curve , before turning eastwards towards Broadwater . |
| 15 | Less easy to predict , though , was the way in which Scotland squandered an opportunity to go further in front 13 minutes before the interval . |
| 16 | Almost half of the serviceable BR-owned wagon fleet in 1989 comprised ‘ merry-go-round ’ coal hoppers , with the remainder consisting largely of steel carriers , some vans and opens for general merchandise traffic , and — rather surprisingly and after much argument with the industry — the fleet of china clay carriers built to replace the venerable ‘ clay hoods ’ in 1988 . |
| 17 | It is expected moreover that Cornwall with a rapidly growing population , one of the most grow rapidly growing in the country will not in any case remain much under quota er for very long . |
| 18 | He said bookings for summer holidays this year were well ahead , with operators competing fiercely on price to capture their share of the market . |
| 19 | The Planned Activity Time structure works effectively in many schools with inservice programmes at school and departmental level planned well in advance . |
| 20 | Betty Gilling was at the cottage door , her white hair knotted prettily on top of her head and her arms folded over the mound of her stomach where her eighth child was curled , almost ready to be born . |
| 21 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 22 | To avoid the prospect of local authorities , whose rate fund becomes overdrawn within a year , from ‘ going bankrupt ’ , the Act provides that authorities concerned may be given permission to borrow temporarily on revenue account , but only on such terms as the Secretary of State may impose . |
| 23 | There 's now a huge range of companies selling direct , from large , well-run outfits like Dell , Viglen and Elonex , to smaller operations competing solely on price . |
| 24 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 25 | This case covers perhaps in classic form the problematic use of a woman 's previous sexual history in determining the outcome of a rape trial . |
| 26 | It is a relative — at several removes — of the function mentioned briefly in Chapter 5 . |
| 27 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 28 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 29 | On her first foray to Freetown and the Congo Kingsley posed variously as ichthyologist , botanist and naturalist . |
| 30 | There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery . |