Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 2 | Italians only find skiing interesting when they 're shouting epithets or carving each other up , which makes for severe anxiety neurosis among less passionate mortals . |
| 3 | The Davis/Baker/Tear recording , made for Philips in 1977 , is so deservedly well-known and admired that anybody thinking about changing allegiances or buying another version in preference must be urged to think twice . |
| 4 | If the driver does not respond , a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available . |
| 5 | These clips are a triumph of form over content , and by the time you reach the four live songs that close this boxful of banging and shouting , it 's a relief to know that at least this is roughly what they 're really like when they 're not busy being hyperactive . |
| 6 | The same fragility can be heard in the six songs that complete this issue , and she seems too light a voice for either the humouristic pomp of the Ballade des gros Dindons , or the lovely lyricism of Chanson pour Jeanne and L'île heureuse . |
| 7 | Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call . |
| 8 | The legs that deliver that blow are in proportion to the rest of the tiger 's body , the circumference of the upper joint often being as much as 21 in ( 54 cm ) . |
| 9 | But it was her eyes that drew most attention . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
| 11 | The domes that dominate these holiday villages are maintained at sub-tropical temperatures , and there is a full range of sporting and other facilities , mostly on site . |
| 12 | It was the opposition of the clergy that gave this resistance of the privileged orders a country-wide leadership and a cause equal in emotive appeal to the myth of the sovereign people . |
| 13 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |
| 14 | Halve our ships , ground the fighters that defend this country and disband half the regiments of the British Army as well . ’ |
| 15 | He also wants to rationalise the company 's hardware engineering groups into a single unit , under a new vice president of engineering ; put the separate networking products into one network communications group ; disinvest on proprietary hardware and software ; and follow the IBM Corp model by creating individual business units that have more autonomy . |
| 16 | The books that follow this pattern are at first sight attractive , ideal for ‘ face-on ’ displays , and can even seem to have some serious purpose . |
| 17 | Steel-Maitland 's method was the systematic collection of information by the Central Office district agents in constituency books that recorded all income , expenditure and political activity . |
| 18 | For example , in considering how much to reduce lead emissions from cars it is not impossible to calculate the marginal social cost of producing cars with anti-pollution exhaust systems and the marginal social cost of cars that use more fuel per mile . |
| 19 | It may need more general contextual information to discriminate between words , yet it has to provide the words that determine that context . |
| 20 | Then take out thin , twiggy wood and branches that cross each other — you 're aiming for a goblet shape . |
| 21 | The growing interest in German and Japanese in some parts of the world and the fact that the US looks likely to have more Spanish speakers than Anglophones some time in the next century may have an impact eventually . |
| 22 | The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations . |
| 23 | In most cases of the conversion of schools that incorporate this feature , the owners have wisely left space between the edge of the added floor and the window to give a mezzanine platform overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room , as in the arrangement adopted at the west end of the main wing of Airton school . |
| 24 | ‘ Any steps that delay that referral are an obstacle , ’ he said . |
| 25 | When repeated reflux episodes resulted in repetitive simultaneous oesophageal contractions that followed each other at short intervals , the pattern resembled that seen in primary oesophageal motility disorders . |
| 26 | This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble . |
| 27 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 28 | That way chaos lies , but the Window are aware that the best tension is created from a structure being stretched and shattered , so they rein themselves into songs and mess that way . |
| 29 | Now the rhythm section 's so strong and permanent , we can almost deconstruct the songs and create more space in what we 're doing . ’ |
| 30 | A few simple heuristic rules are used to identify ‘ suspect ’ clones and probes and to find each probe 's neighbours simultaneously . |