Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for contract customers only DESPATCH ADVICE , ( POSTING DOCKET ) ( contract customers may also use a MULTI-PARCEL C.O.P . |
| 2 | The desire for defence economies also increased his desire to see a relaxation in East–West tensions . |
| 3 | The categories of breakage produced by different predators are similar to those for rodent mandibles just described , and so they do not need to be separately documented here . |
| 4 | During courtship couples frequently view each other with an exaggerated positive focus . |
| 5 | The American Association of College and Research Libraries ' Standards for college libraries also give some quantitative formulae , suggesting base collections of 85,000 volumes . |
| 6 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 7 | To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores . |
| 8 | Last of the spring blooms to reach my desk are Tangled Up In White ( Hodder and Stoughton , £14.99 ) an anthology of some of the best of Peter Roebuck 's sharply intelligent articles on cricket and The Guinness Book of Cricket Captains ( Guinness , £14.99 ) , the second large book about Test captains recently published . |
| 9 | Complaints about opt-out schools now go to the Education Department , which has a poor track record , says the National Consumers Council . |
| 10 | Sampling for mammal fossils often involves the patient sieving of great quantities of sediment to extract the fossil teeth . |
| 11 | Tidal power systems operate by filling a single basin or river estuary at rising tide through sluice gates then emptying it during falling tide through turbines . |
| 12 | However , competition between management companies normally keeps the spread to within 6–7 per cent . |
| 13 | In 1865 , Richard Arkell started brewing , for corn millers often took up brewing as a sideline . |
| 14 | The tracheal supply of insect muscles also varies with their activity , visceral muscles being poorly supplied while flight-muscles are much more richly tracheated , with intracellular tracheoles penetrating the fibrils . |
| 15 | This brief discussion of user interfaces merely touches on their significance . |
| 16 | Nearly every band of camp followers probably had a group of whores in it . |
| 17 | For example , despite the computer revolution , the language of computer users still has to be interpreted to the uninitiated ; and for clients in the health care system , the vocabulary of staff is often unintelligible or , when only snatches are overheard and understood , is open to misinterpretation and can cause the client and family great distress . |
| 18 | In response to the buoyant demand for GUIs almost all vendors of computer systems now offer such an interface product . |
| 19 | Is the time of computer responses adequately controlled at each point ? |
| 20 | Early on the morning of Friday 16 August the governor of Fort Augustus , in the middle of the ‘ Great Glen ’ line , sent two companies of foot soldiers south-westwards to reinforce Fort William , along General Wade 's new military road . |
| 21 | For the public they are a welcome addition to the number of foot police regularly patrolling the town . |
| 22 | There is no safe atmospheric level of asbestos fibres universally accepted at the present time ’ . |
| 23 | Inside the nucleus , the electrostatic field no longer varies as the inverse square of the radius , as it does outside the nucleus , and the overlap of wave functions here determines the size of the isotopic shift . |
| 24 | Routine assembly of color televisions eventually shifted to Taiwan and Mexico . |
| 25 | Controversy over the use of case studies particularly hinges on how they may be most effectively conducted . |
| 26 | However , in 1983–4 , the only readily available message was that GPs were referring an unusually large number of patients with drugs problems to the two local psychiatric departments and the Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependency Unit ( as our analysis of case files later showed ) . |
| 27 | And of course blacksmiths still worked on the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 28 | Of course Christians also want to start in the present in speaking of their awareness of God . |
| 29 | The successful use of contract armies also enhanced the prestige of the nobility . |
| 30 | Secondly , since the ICC rules depend upon adoption by contract their success depends in large measure on the existence of an institutional structure sufficiently homogeneous and of contract terms sufficiently stan-dardized to ensure the likelihood of such adoption . |