Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |
| 2 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |
| 3 | The appointment of the interim receiver terminates when either the petition is dismissed or a bankruptcy order is made , and can also be terminated by the court on the application of the interim receiver , the official receiver ( if not the interim receiver ) , the debtor or any creditor ( r 6.57 ) . |
| 4 | As the hole narrows , the overlap of light from nearby points decreases until eventually a reasonably clear image is obtained . |
| 5 | The planning of operations to be carried out by L Detachment remains as hitherto the prerogative of L Detachment . |
| 6 | More boys than girls are in the lowest mathematics sets although quite a number obtained fairly high test scores on the GT4 test . |
| 7 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 8 | The network capacity problem arises because currently the company 's System X and AXE 10 digital exchanges do not support ISDN directly — instead , customers are served through special multiplexors hanging off the side . |
| 9 | She seemed ready to attend one of those cocktail parties where she smeared her lips on cheeks and glasses and cigarettes and napkins and biscuits and cocktail sticks until barely a foot of the room was not decorated in red . |
| 10 | ‘ The amount of studying for the exams comes as quite a shock ’ |
| 11 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |