Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 2 | But the researchers also reported ‘ an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly . |
| 3 | They also utilize low-valued , passive , social , and subjective methods disproportionately to study subjects of low social status . |
| 4 | In order to weed out potential problems private schools usually give children some form of interview and pre-entry test before a place is offered . |
| 5 | Toothy anglo teenagers still greet guests at the $300-a-night hotels . |
| 6 | The family had put out the items including tea services and Georgian candlesticks so house guests could admire them over the New Years holiday . |
| 7 | The economic problems , the exhaustion brought by war , and divisions between the political parties all caused difficulties for de Gaulle . |
| 8 | Election poster campaigns by the main political parties customarily occupy sites previously booked by others — by clients of the party 's agency who can be persuaded to postpone campaigns for a few weeks , by the Central Office of Information ( whose government advertising goes on hold once an election is called ) or reputedly ( in the case of the Tories ) by the big brewers and tobacco companies . |
| 9 | In contrast , most nomadic and tribal groups still make rugs in the time-honoured dark reds and primary hues of their ancestors , while Persian workshop groups employ both pastel and rich shades . |
| 10 | These old cases generally involve directors lacking executive responsibilities , however , and provide little guidance about the position of the modern executive director . |
| 11 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 12 | Public schools normally take children from the age of 13 ( usually the boys ' boarding schools ) or from the age of 11 . |
| 13 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |
| 14 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |
| 15 | At sites such as Petters Sports Field in Surrey , archaeologists have uncovered large numbers of post-holes ( remains in the soil showing where wooden posts once supported structures ) . |
| 16 | Many of those who were using what are known as curly bows also shoot longbows . |
| 17 | It is possible for example that time-gap experiences simply reflect events which were so banal that they could not be distinguished from other memories for similar previous driving . |
| 18 | 1 ) Why do the different string manufacturers make slightly different gauges within gauged sets and what effect will changing to a brand which is differently matched have on a properly set up neck : eg. changing from 010 014 020 028 040 050 to 010 013 017 030 042 052 ? |
| 19 | Assigning people to different posts also creates roles and gives a great sense of purpose and value to those on the committee . |
| 20 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 21 | The majority of British universities now send copies of their theses to the British Library ( BLDSC ) for microfilming . |
| 22 | ‘ I think these old places always have ghosts , ’ said Elizabeth as though she were talking of woodworm . |
| 23 | Dietary changes also reveal improvements in food consumption patterns , since there has been an increase in the consumption of oils , chicken meat , eggs and milk , which in the past have been beyond the reach of many of the poor . |
| 24 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 25 | When debts become too large to bear , British firms also use debt-restructurings and the bankruptcy laws . |
| 26 | It is then possible to argue that the so-called terraces really represent parts of a single warped surface , but a close study of the altitudes usually leads to their interpretation as distinct terraces . |
| 27 | English Hops now use merchants throughout the world to sell their products . |
| 28 | Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise . |
| 29 | It goes without saying that semantic variants also involve differences of expression — of syntax and graphology/phonology — since codings at the more abstract level of meaning have consequences of expression . |
| 30 | The leading UK daily newspapers regularly include details of overseas properties for sale . |