Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " putting together " signified by the heading to this category is a skill which may be needed at all or several stages of study , from the formulation of plans or an enquiry up to the creation of a product … |
| 2 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 3 | Why could n't they just understand that she did n't want to be married and settled with umpteen kids and a mortgage up to the sky and no life to call her own ? |
| 4 | The perhaps inevitable consequences were accumulating losses and a withdrawal back to the protected home market . |
| 5 | This time place both your whole forearms horizontally across the back and slide them slowly , yet firmly , apart , one up the back to the top of the shoulders and the other down to the top of the buttocks ; use a fair amount of pressure ( see Fig. 10 ) . |
| 6 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 7 | From 1870 to 1873 he was outside manager at G. Forrester & Company 's Vauxhall foundry , Liverpool , where he had charge of repairs to vessels and the fitting out of new ships . |
| 8 | Some Tories think it 's a sop to the right from a weakened premier , the Government insist that the sell off is the best way to attract investment from the private sector into the railways , but there are signs that the break up of B R is n't proving as attractive to outside investors as the government hoped . |
| 9 | A faction of the ruling Blanco Party remained opposed to the privatization of state companies and the opening up of the economy , as did the increasingly powerful left-wing FA and the trade unions belonging to the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convenció Nacional de Trabajadores ( PIT-CNT ) which called a total of seven general strikes in 1990 . |
| 10 | Recent poaching incidents have led to stepping up of bailiff patrols and the setting up of a hotline by the River Annan 's Salmon Fishery Board . |
| 11 | Senior Albanian diplomats had contacts with United States officials at the UN in May , the first official contact between the two countries since the breaking off of relations at the end of the Second World War [ see also p. 37385 ] . |
| 12 | There is a pool and health centre , and tennis courts and the chair-lift up to Monte Solaro are nearby . |
| 13 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
| 14 | In the end , he found himself being asked to advise about the hiring of marquees , and the erection of stalls , the choosing of sites for swings and the marking out of an area for the donkey ride . |
| 15 | He could see small fields , woods and a lake up there , and from the lake a river spilled out and over the edge … |
| 16 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 17 | His yard , where the horses were stabled , went behind the houses and the pub through to Garden Cottages . |
| 18 | Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion . |
| 19 | Each treatment period lasted four days and the wash out periods before starting and during the study lasted 10 days . |
| 20 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 21 | The ANC-affiliated United Democratic Front ( UDF ) said that it did not believe that the calm would last unless there were more comprehensive measures , such as abolition of the hostel system , arrest and prosecution of Inkatha warlords and a weeding out of elements in the security forces intent on destroying the negotiation process . |
| 22 | The feasible real wage will be determined by , for example , unit labour costs and the mark up over unit labour costs . |
| 23 | ‘ We are always on the look-out for promising pups because every year up to a dozen of our most experienced dogs retire when they are eight years old , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 24 | There 's none for the tea urns or the washing up or … ’ her voice dropped dramatically . |
| 25 | If I make an omelette of your eggs or a statue out of your block of marble , that is conversion . |
| 26 | Remember , GenTech is offering goods or the credit up to the value of ten million dollars for any and all information leading to the arrest of ever-so-desperate felons . |
| 27 | He turned the lights and the music off , and because there was no other traffic on the almost-country road at three in the morning , there was complete silence . |
| 28 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
| 29 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 30 | Two other aspects are relevant to this theme : the formation of sand dunes and the drying out of low-lying marsh areas . |