Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 2 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 3 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 4 | ‘ The rights deriving from the above-mentioned provisions of the Treaty include not only the rights of establishment and of participation in the capital of companies or firms but also the right to pursue an economic activity , as the case may be through a company , under the conditions laid down by the legislation of the country of establishment for its own nationals . |
| 5 | If they have money , they can go into private homes or villages where only the elderly can live . |
| 6 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
| 7 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 8 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 9 | The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more . |
| 10 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 11 | But she ca n't bless the communion wine and wafers because only a priest can do that and at present women ca n't be ordained as priests . |
| 12 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 13 | The explanation usually offered for this phenomenon is that subjects implicitly attach a verbal label to pictures and objects and hence a verbal memory trace as well as a pictorial memory trace is established . |
| 14 | Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module . |
| 15 | We must consider here not only subject-specific knowledge and skills but also the child 's general personal and social development , for which every teacher is responsible . |
| 16 | Writing is closely connected to , ‘ fosters ’ or even ‘ enforces ’ the development of ‘ logic ’ , the distinction of myth from history , the elaboration of bureaucracy , the shift from ‘ little communities ’ to complex cultures , the emergence of ‘ scientific ’ thought and institutions and even the growth of democratic political processes . |
| 17 | ‘ Implicitly , if not explicitly , the doctoral thesis has come to be thought of in some countries and institutions as simply the demonstration that a certain amount of research methodology has been transmitted and received , with much less emphasis than used to be the case upon the nature and significance of the topic explored . ’ |
| 18 | The trade union reforms , the break with the ‘ social partners ’ approach in running the economy , the abolition of a tier of local government , the imposition of far-reaching central government controls over local government finance and policies and then the replacement of household rates by the community charge , and the large-scale privatization , all mark a major departure from the conventions of post-war politics . |
| 19 | That planet is populated by millions of little blue paranoids who have many arms and legs and absolutely no inhibitions . |
| 20 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 22 | His mum had got the caterers in back at the house and there were great plates of sandwiches and cakes and even a couple of barrels of Tetley 's out in the kitchen with the head waiter from the restaurant at Mary Ann Evans 's dispensing from the tap . |
| 23 | Thus , we need to know not just the shape of the pre- and post-distributions but also the location of families within the distributions . |
| 24 | A responsibility chart can indicate not only decisions and duties but also the information needed to discharge these duties ( Table 1 . |
| 25 | They turned into Candlewick , now thronged with carts , pack horses and wagons as virtually every tradesman in the city seized the opportunity afforded by the break in the weather . |
| 26 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 27 | But — the thought upset her — would there be any spare money , any pocket-money , for her own small , personal needs , shampoos and stockings and perhaps a little face-cream , that sort of thing ? |
| 28 | These results indicate that the degree of cross-talk between G proteins and effectors and thus the flexibility of G-protein-regulated transmembrane signalling is much higher than thought . |
| 29 | Far better to remember that ivy does provide a very useful overwintering site for many small mammals and insects and also an essential nesting or roosting site for favourite garden birds . |
| 30 | Women make up over two-fifths of APA boards and committees and over a third of its main governing bodies . |