Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do animals perform their restrained ritual contests rather than fighting all out straight away ? |
| 2 | The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion . |
| 3 | The Directors of Waterford Wedgwood UK plc are committed to managing the Group 's operations so as to minimise any adverse environmental impact . |
| 4 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |
| 5 | In other words , Sergeant Wilson ( who has since left the force ) agreed to compromise to enhance his career opportunities rather than present any challenge to the system . |
| 6 | At dawn yesterday , Group Four piled on the pressure , catching the tides right and putting more distance between herself and the rest of the fleet as she approached Southampton . |
| 7 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |
| 8 | ‘ We can all put photographs , pictures and words together and create some sort of image . ’ |
| 9 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 10 | His long term objective is to re-establish the economic basis of Berlin by persuading researchers of industry to put their heads together and devise some new products . |
| 11 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 12 | I mean having to come upstairs before you even get into the house is n't very good either , cos I mean with kids you 've got to carry the pushchairs up and everything and carry kids up and carry all your shopping up , it 's not , it 's not very practical having them upstairs . |
| 13 | He left the hospital three months later and spent another six months hobbling about on crutches and having treatment . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 15 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |
| 16 | The coastal resort of Morecambe is twenty minutes away and has all the amenities of a seaside resort including an open-air leisure park and Oceanarium . |
| 17 | Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places . |
| 18 | With likes of Ken Wright , Roger Gould and Enrique Rodriguez ( nice bow tie , Rico ) , they threw the beer cans away and ran some beauts . |
| 19 | Hilton stresses that a quickened sense of the inner meaning of the Incarnation can not be forced ; it is essentially experienced as a gift and those eager to know God should always try to work with the grain of their own particular natures rather than force any prescribed activity : " take esili wolen come " ( 53.637 ) . |
| 20 | Where one such lift is used the dock and load would be balanced by a suspended weight but two such lifts would generally be arranged to work simultaneously in opposite directions so as to balance each other . |
| 21 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 22 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 23 | I mean he 's alright but he 's rude to the little ones and after you have to take the plates away and scrape all the food off in the bins . |
| 24 | But top managers say the advantages more than offset any frustration . |
| 25 | I sorted the orange nylon lines out and did some tying , untangling line from line , knot from knot . |
| 26 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 27 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 28 | A system relates to its environment of other systems by importing materials , feelings , ideas etc. and transforming these into outputs that can be exported into the environment . |
| 29 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |
| 30 | Well I thought if I get one this size , that will do for a few weeks rather than take some of them home and mess about better than there 's a big packet like a big one at home I 've just opened this morning so it 's |