Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , writes : WHILE LOOKING through a book of Royal photos the other day I noticed that Prince Charles seems to wear kilts of different tartans . |
| 2 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 3 | Enjoying immunities from various forms of taxation and from administrative interference by the State , the monasteries were at a distinct advantage in accumulating land and retaining scarce peasant labour , and they benefited from a flow of bequests by repentant sons of the Church . |
| 4 | They also owned estates in other parts of Ayrshire and in Galloway . |
| 5 | It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction . |
| 6 | Lord Kemsley and Lord Rothermere owned chains of provincial dailies too . |
| 7 | The co-processor using groups of small engines , they will explain , is not a mainframe at all and in fact evidence that the mainframe is a gone gosling . |
| 8 | As we design more and more committees , task forces , teams and production groups within organizations , we should remember that there are advantages ' and disadvantages in using groups as decision-making devices . |
| 9 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 10 | The Nianias report on European Commission proposals for older people calls on the commission to conduct investigations into discriminatory practices on the grounds of age and initiate action to bring about equal treatment for elderly people . |
| 11 | A very simple design is to weave strips of various lengths , which is particularly effective on sideways knitted garments . |
| 12 | This is because the liberalization process in Japan occurred simultaneously with that elsewhere and therefore it is possible that the variable may also capture any previously rationed investments from other localities . |
| 13 | The Germans are asking their ‘ sickness funds ’ ( which collect payroll taxes and arrange for care ) to cancel contracts with inefficient hospitals and are obliging hospitals to publish details of their costs . |
| 14 | Burlington Publishing Co produces titles including Shooting Times and Country Magazine , Airgun World and Baily 's Hunting Directory . |
| 15 | Some houses remain frail structures of cardboard and plywood , but most are the scenes of energetic activity : people bring loads of red-tile bricks , mix cement , fetch stone chips and sand . |
| 16 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 17 | Some cities , including Venice , can also build defences across critical connections to the sea . |
| 18 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 19 | This international project is organized from a Department of Quaternary Geology but involves inputs from physical geographers as well as from biologists , geologists and archaeologists . |
| 20 | Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges . |
| 21 | On the other hand , any artist who has been at the game long enough will have developed preferences for certain kinds of subject matter , for example Degas ' dancing girls , Céanne 's mountain , or Connard 's bathroom . |
| 22 | They also want the government to support proposals for national parks in Scotland . |
| 23 | Characterization of DNA binding activities in nuclear extracts from Raji , RJ2.2.5 and AR . |
| 24 | Also , by using print-outs from various packages , notices using text and graphics can be produced for noticeboards throughout the school . |
| 25 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 26 | A two-tier system would justify the vast resources that were needed to support investigations into computer-assisted crimes . |
| 27 | Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services . |
| 28 | The government is trying to curb investments by listed companies into the mainland , but has no means of accurately monitoring — let alone controlling — how much local companies have put into China . |
| 29 | OUR WINDOWS EXPERT , ROGER GANN , TACKLES YOUR GUI PROBLEMS AND OFFERS LOADS OF USEFUL TIPS , AND HINTS . |
| 30 | OUR WINDOWS EXPERT , ROGER GANN , TACKLES YOUR GUI PROBLEMS AND OFFERS LOADS OF USEFUL TIPS AND HINTS . |