Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variety offers opportunity for comparisons and the discovery of new and different properties , which may be generalised later ; experience of many rounded things will suggest that ‘ rounded things roll ’ . |
| 2 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 3 | Undergraduates were also given groups of consonants and asked to recall as many as possible in their correct position after various time delays . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 5 | With the right kind of self-certainty goes sympathy with others and a sane balance of mind . |
| 6 | Zenith employs an ex-programmer of Acme who is familiar with the program ; this person writes a program for Zenith using copies of listings and flowcharts that he retained . |
| 7 | Under LMS , where governing bodies are given responsibility for matters that affect health and safety , they will be potentially liable for any offences against the 1974 Health and Safety Act caused by their decisions . |
| 8 | Due to work by the union , the community is now set to act on repetitive strain injury , something we 've campaigned on for years and in late June the E C's Head of Health and Safety will share a platform with John and Nigel in Brussels to launch G M B's campaign to create working environment funds at E C level to channel money to unions and their health and safety work . |
| 9 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 10 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 11 | Amsteg 's position makes it a well placed base for climbers and hill walkers . |
| 12 | Banks like Childs and Hoares received the rents from the estates , made investments in stocks and collected dividends for their landed clients . |
| 13 | Unless an exemption applies , it therefore includes dealing in , arranging transactions in or advising on futures contracts ( which term is used in this chapter to include contracts for differences and options on futures ) , or managing a portfolio including futures contracts . |
| 14 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 15 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 16 | I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation . |
| 17 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 18 | Scathach slung canvases between trees that surged and shuddered . |
| 19 | 1986 ) , and the problems compounded by the difficulty in maintaining contacts between children and their birth parents ( see Millham et al . , |
| 20 | A mix of short term policy oriented research and longer term projects aimed at the development of theory is pursued , which reflects the Centre 's intention to promote contacts between researchers and those more directly involved in policy and practice . |
| 21 | " Responsible " men are men with responsibilities , homes , children and wives , and that moral code is written into social security regulations to enforce responsibility for women and children as the economic essence of masculinity . |
| 22 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 23 | On February 3 , Outside Pentonville Prison , pink and black condoms were inflated and released to float over the walls of the prison , in a protest against the government 's refusal to issue prisoners with condoms and clean needles . |
| 24 | Mr first laid plans of mice and men is one page missing as it is only twenty five metres away and I shall have it shortly . |
| 25 | This has given rise to fears that the electoral process in the US has become corrupted , as money increasingly ‘ buys ’ political influence through elaborate election campaigns that concentrate power in hands of a ‘ small monied minority ’ [ Alexander ] . |
| 26 | The white-painted Land Rovers had clear UN marking and the attack has given rise to fears that Serb forces have targeted British troops . |
| 27 | The increasing domestic and industrial use of a number of stable chlorine-containing compounds has given rise to claims that these compounds may diffuse upwards into the stratosphere where they are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine which act to destroy ozone through a complex chain of chemical reactions ( Crutzen , 1974 ; Molina and Rowland , 1974 ) . |
| 28 | So you have a bilge , and , you eat loads of cakes and then instead of like you with pizzas down there , they just throw it up |
| 29 | ‘ We took the caravan to Teesdale every weekend during the season and I would make sketches of landscapes or take photos and paint them when I got home . |
| 30 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |