Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of income-supplementing strategies open to women was probably greater prior to World War I , as was the need , poverty being more widespread . |
| 2 | Shareholder monitoring may be depicted as taking an owner-like , internal form , involving scrutiny of management and replacement of under-performing directors via the company 's democratic channels , or an external form , whereby dissatisfied shareholders dispose of shares in the market , possibly triggering the removal of the board via the market for corporate control . |
| 3 | In the odd invertebrate there is monogamy but no ordinary parental care : the limnorid isopods that bore into shipwood live in pairs , but the young look after themselves ; likewise , some wood-boring scolytid beetles live in pairs but have no parental care in the ordinary sense of the word — although the young may benefit from the proximity of their parents . |
| 4 | Small alluvial fans occur on footslopes and have brown forest soils or humus-iron podzols developed in the coarse-textured stony deposits . |
| 5 | As many of the apparent overlaps between the low vowels occur in environments where the vowel is short , a brief review of the vowel-length system is necessary . |
| 6 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 7 | In this view , cohesive ties exist between elements in connected sentences of a text in such a way that one word or phrase is linked to other words or phrases . |
| 8 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 9 | Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category . |
| 10 | Many old attitudes act as constraints to improvement and must change . |
| 11 | I held up my arms as I had seen German prisoners do in news-reels . |
| 12 | Rare blue lizards scurry among the rocks of Petra ; clumps of black lilies grow beside the King 's Highway ; the few oases teem with birds . |
| 13 | The above examples illustrate that different preferences exist across languages for certain general patterns of reference . |
| 14 | The president 's television addresses activated grass-roots support in members ' districts , but administration strategists were not content to leave the matter there . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , certain clear patterns emerge from interviews conducted in Zambia in 1972 . |
| 16 | At present , few opportunities exist for citizens to act as participants in public life . |
| 17 | Since then , despite deep and life changing bonds being formed , some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong . |
| 18 | THE Bundesbank indicated yesterday that there were no immediate plans to reduce interest rates and pleaded for a rigorous savings campaign by Germans to combat rising debts . |
| 19 | Further paragraphs deal with bells , gongs or sirens being used for theft prevention purposes or to summons help for the conductors , drivers and inspectors of large passenger carrying vehicles . |
| 20 | Spokesman Mike Newman said : ‘ The rent increases reflect the increased commercial opportunities open to tenants and is calculated on a fair open-market basis . |
| 21 | Thirdly , in animals , some proteins serve as hormones , such as growth hormone . |
| 22 | Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies . |
| 23 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 24 | How much contact do people in residential homes have with relatives , friends , and neighbours outside ? |
| 25 | INTEREST FREE CREDIT 12 MONTHS ASK FOR DETAILS |
| 26 | Detailed research on road accident data for Edinburgh has shown that casualties per head of population in designated areas occur at rates considerably above the average for Lothian . |
| 27 | On the other hand , some accents differ from others in having more phonemes and phonemic contrasts . |
| 28 | It is easily found near the cluster M11 ; λ and 12 Aquilæ act as guides but both are too bright to be useful comparison stars , and so is α Scuti . |
| 29 | The volume of economic transnational practices has increased phenomenally since the 1950s , as evidenced by the tremendous growth of foreign trade , l and this means that even some quite poor people in some poor countries can now distinguish many consumer goods in terms of their origins and the status-conferring advantages that some origins have over others . |
| 30 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |