Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a stimulation accounts for the collection of technical philosophical essays gathered together by J. I. Biro and Robert Shahan in Mind , Brain and function . |
| 2 | Carriers , on the other hand , gained increased protection against tort lawsuits as a result of the Visby Protocol 's clarification that the limits of liability and defences of the Hague Rules applied equally to actions in tort and in contract . |
| 3 | Moreover , when barons and knights gathered together in arms , as though for war , who could tell what conspiracies and rebellions might not follow ? |
| 4 | Are ward/department duty rotas planned well in advance ? |
| 5 | Workers and peasants meetings developed spontaneously in August and September ; later from November to December 1945 , the new mass organisations came to be more tightly controlled from above . |
| 6 | This proposal to establish a broad range of quality assurance standards for different services reflects the Labour Party 's concern that current VFM investigations concentrate overly on cost-cutting . |
| 7 | Young horses and ponies winter well in numbers in barns . |
| 8 | While some jobs such as clerical work declined in reward and status , other groups expanded both through credentials and professionalisation . |
| 9 | INROADS DRIVES AHEAD WITH SAFETY |
| 10 | Two lamps glowed softly from brackets on the wall , and she stared at them stupidly , her thoughts unfocused , her mind disorientated . |
| 11 | The omnibuses were horse drawn , single decker with passengers sitting facing each other across a middle aisle , and other omnibuses travelled westward from Chiswick through Brentford , Isleworth and Hounslow . |
| 12 | We find that the ages correspond well to periods of high lake level within the rift , suggesting that the elevated water table and increased availability of meteoric water associated with more humid climates can promote greater transfer of heat and mass from deep , long-lived heat sources to the surface . |
| 13 | A visually outstanding picture book revealing the megalomania of Stalinist architecture both on paper and as realised with amazing diversity in popular palaces deriving most from Boullée , Piranesi and the Gothic cathedral . |
| 14 | He said bookings for summer holidays this year were well ahead , with operators competing fiercely on price to capture their share of the market . |
| 15 | These sums do not include the many hours given corporately by BP and privately by employees in support of this expenditure . |
| 16 | There 's now a huge range of companies selling direct , from large , well-run outfits like Dell , Viglen and Elonex , to smaller operations competing solely on price . |
| 17 | Some contracts provide instead for performance without delivery , generally by payment of differences by reference to a published price or index . |
| 18 | There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery . |
| 19 | The first concerned QCs appearing alone in Court ; the second related to the unnecessary attendance of solicitors on Counsel in some Crown Court cases . |
| 20 | Pares published extensively in a series of monographs illuminating various aspects of his chosen field , the role of the West Indies in the development of the British Empire , and the determination of British international policy during the eighteenth century : his pioneering investigations ranged widely over questions of war and trade and international law . |
| 21 | Starched family groups posed self-consciously in front of parlour palms and porticoes . |
| 22 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 23 | A racist arson attack on two houses occupied mainly by families of Turkish origin , on the night of Nov. 22-23 , killed two girls aged 10 and 14 , Yeliz Arslan and Ayse Yilmaz , and Yeliz 's 51-year-old grandmother , Bahide Arslan . |
| 24 | One of the ways in which the Council is trying to avoid duplication and to make course and unit development more efficient is by encouraging centres with similar proposals to work together as consortia . |
| 25 | Luigi looked across at Sandy and winked . |
| 26 | On the contrary , among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at the community of Qumran , there are rules applying specifically to members of the sect who are married and have children . |
| 27 | Paty 's current plasterer was Joseph Thomas whose own little house , No 5 Guinea Street , was an authentic riot , with ceilings of squirrels and birds perched precariously on plaster curlicues and ‘ C ’ scrolls . |
| 28 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 29 | ‘ Two hundred and fifty pounds in used notes looks very like blackmail but , for these days , it 's a modest demand from a comparatively wealthy man . ’ |
| 30 | I can not tell how many people live on Raasay today ; nine hundred would seem a high estimate although in the interior of the island , houses appear unexpectedly like mushrooms in the grass . |