Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the data available on human colonic motility originate from investigations conducted in the most distal portions of the viscus , because of technical difficulties in reaching its proximal portions . |
| 2 | Prison visitors seemed to acknowledge that drug taking among inmates is widespread . |
| 3 | As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense . |
| 4 | The driver refused and was in due course convicted by justices of failing to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State was able to influence the drafting of the terms of reference and the composition of the working parties ; yet the working parties necessarily contained a majority of professionals and in due course reported in ways which again the Secretary of State could only partially modify . |
| 6 | It was still believed , or at any rate hoped , that the refugees would in due course come to terms with their situation and accept resettlement . |
| 7 | Increasing marginal tax rates on income ensure that each individual 's average tax rate , the proportion of total income paid in taxes , increases with income . |
| 8 | We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path . |
| 9 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 10 | The importance of the economic support provided by husbands is neatly illustrated by working class women 's attitudes towards marriage breakdown . |
| 11 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 12 | Set in a ‘ green and silent spot , amid the hills ’ , it was not intended for the Lyrical Ballads , but was a political meditation inspired by fears of a French invasion . |
| 13 | Two-year full-time course open to holders of a three-year degree in architecture with a good portfolio and a period of practical training . |
| 14 | Worried , the time-travellers venture out only to discover the ship has landed in a narrow , rocky gully strewn with rocks and boulders . |
| 15 | Indeed , in the wake of the scandals the professional world of child care was itself politicized , just as the relative political protection enjoyed by practitioners before Maria Colwell 's death disappeared ( Parton , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | The reasons for this are a political philosophy of increasing private provision coupled with changes in the funding arrangements for those entering residential care , specifically the introduction of supplementary benefit payments to those unable to afford the fees at private homes . |
| 17 | Charities have little money to spend on fees , so nobody wants to be seen looking after them . |
| 18 | Many carers , due to a mixture of their own unnecessary guilt and the emotional blackmail exerted by dependents , can be easily manipulated and feel bad about leaving them . |
| 19 | In advancing legal arguments and in taking direct political action those active in the peace movement can be reinforced by the knowledge that the hesitant political support given by others to the policies of nuclear deterrence is underpinned only by the belief that their leaders genuinely desire peace and disarmament . |
| 20 | Let that part of the monetary base held by banks be called ‘ reserves ’ , , so that and therefore |
| 21 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 22 | That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) . |
| 23 | Shetland one-way route proposed for tankers |
| 24 | There is a strange little CLICKING noise made by cats that are on the prowl and have spotted a prey animal . |
| 25 | The authority took the view that J 's difficulties did not preclude him from following ‘ a normal mainstream curriculum suited to pupils of his age ’ . |
| 26 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 27 | However , the presence of CFCs , which have strong absorption bands in parts of the infrared spectrum , may induce their own ‘ greenhouse effect ’ within the stratosphere , thereby offsetting the carbon dioxide effect ( Ramanathan , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | The other side of the reactivity coin is that change induced in respondents by evaluation may be of positive benefit . |
| 29 | The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association . |
| 30 | It will be apparent that much of this discussion has concerned emotional support given to women rather than men , because there is far more empirical evidence about women 's close relationships , largely leaving invisible the question of where men derive their emotional support . |