Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 2 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 3 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 4 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 5 | Above : Unidentified regular infantry unit in field dress ; the fact that some enlisted men wear the crossed rifles on the left side of their slouch hats presumably dates the photograph after July 1899 , when the badge was authorized ( though for wear on the front ) . |
| 6 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 7 | Willie picked up a soft brown-paper package and with trembling fingers slowly untied the string . |
| 8 | This means that in future years the revenue accounts effectively treat the use of these assets as being free . |
| 9 | As each landing became more hazardous , authorities eventually had no alternative but to declare the field completely unserviceable . |
| 10 | This is an important development , which allows litigants before domestic courts effectively to subpoena the Commission . |
| 11 | More studies are needed to ensure that the baits effectively attract the pest . |
| 12 | Control individuals show weak staining in the apical region of the enterocytes thereby showing an uptake of PT-gliadin . |
| 13 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 14 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 15 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 16 | Destiny Technology claims the code name created confusion between USL 's operating system and its controller software and hardware products with its customers though none of its products apparently bear the name Destiny . |
| 17 | The pre-pubescent shrieks suddenly reach a crescendo as the chugging electronic beat of the opening bars of ‘ The Locomotion ’ blasts out of the vast sound system . |
| 18 | The street below was in darkness but the houses opposite caught the moon 's light in their tiles and curtained windows and their shine cast it back upon his troubled face . |
| 19 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 20 | The above four cases only scratch the surface . |
| 21 | But his fingers only felt the lining paper of the drawer . |
| 22 | FIG. 2 Reaggregate cultures only support the development of 14-day CD4 - CD8 - TCR - thymic precursors when both epithelial and mesenchymal cells are present . |
| 23 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |
| 24 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 25 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 26 | Retrograde motion is a natural consequence of the fact that the earth and the planets together orbit the sun against the background of the fixed stars . |
| 27 | The oil companies agreed to reduce their hydrocarbon emissions sufficiently to allow the car plant to be built . |
| 28 | All the ingenious forms of longer-term borrowing undertaken by the United States from overseas monetary authorities merely changed the form of these liabilities , and could only be a stop-gap . |
| 29 | But ‘ old attitudes die hard , ’ and nobody I have spoken to from Tanzania is under any illusion that the changes in content which have been undertaken in curriculum plans and examination policies necessarily reflect a change of heart among all teachers or parents . |
| 30 | The hot garlic butter sauce poured over the snails obviously has a lot to do with the success of the dish , but to those who say that that is all you taste I have always protested that the soft , salty flesh of the snail is very much part of the enjoyment . |