Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homes became a speculative investment which bubble and burst , leaving thousands without homes or unable to move home . |
| 2 | Some more drastic solutions than those discussed above have been proposed , although , as Moseley ( 1979b ) argues , they are based on a number of myths about rural mobility . |
| 3 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 4 | No species alive today has many more than two hundred legs and some have as few as eight . |
| 5 | They argue that industrialized societies are characterized by a plurality of cultural goals and these vary systematically among individuals in different strata and many individuals in the lower strata have limited and realistic ambitions . |
| 6 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 7 | Maillol particularly will attract prices in excess of $1 million for the best subjects and this depends entirely on supply and demand . |
| 8 | All are under 300 calories and all taste absolutely delicious . |
| 9 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
| 10 | The two passages epitomized from Ulpian make different contrasts , first between dispositions left imperatively and those left precatively , then between those left in civil ( -law ) words and those left precatively . |
| 11 | Hundreds of these unfortunates now face losing their homes and many have already done so , in spite of a campaign to limit individual liabilities . |
| 12 | The English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have always been like a family which , despite differences and disagreements , remains loyal . |
| 13 | This is a test that the English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have all passed time and again . |
| 14 | Among other changes that have recently been announced by Lloyd 's are : a new arbitration scheme to deal with disputes between members and their underwriting agents , starting next year ; a new scheme placing a ceiling on future losses sustained by underwriting members , to commence from 1 January 1993 ; and the establishment of a support fund , financed by contributions from Lloyd 's brokers and underwriting agents , to help members suffering from underwriting losses and changes in the guidelines , and members willing to meet their underwriting losses but unable to do so immediately . |
| 15 | Rose ( 1971 ) pointed out that those with a mixed schooling background showed marginally less extreme political views than those educated separately . |
| 16 | Somewhat interestingly , no exact passenger figures were detailed in the 1991 DVR report and accounts although this has always been shown in previous years . |
| 17 | All languages have vowels and consonants and these combine together to form syllables . |
| 18 | Tim Hayward , head of corporate recovery at KPMG , said : ‘ Liquidation is the form of insolvency particularly common to smaller companies and many have simply not had the cash reserves to enable them to survive difficult trading conditions . |
| 19 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 20 | Partly to counter these charges the EC has constantly tried to develop its relations with other countries and this applies also to cultural relations . |
| 21 | We may assume that very often they exploited ignorance and helplessness , though the extremes of contract labour and debt serfdom were probably un-common in this period , except among the Indians and Chinese shipped abroad for plantation work . |
| 22 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 23 | The Tyneside industrial culture has emerged out of the long-term association and interaction of practices which derive from a range of industrial experiences as these come together in civil society . |
| 24 | As they try to restore their original position by recalling discount market loans , we shall have the same circumstances as those described above but now deliberately engineered by the Bank . |
| 25 | The resolution was on the same lines as that put forward on Oct. 23 by the UN Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on Decolonization , which expressed its " conviction that the pursuit of a direct dialogue between the two parties to the conflict naturally contributed to the ( peace ) process ' . |
| 26 | Club members oppose electoral slates as these proved so destructive of the Tribune Group and Campaign Group . |
| 27 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 28 | This looks less impressive if you know that only 10 people were asked for their views and seven responded favourably . |
| 29 | The global left ventricular ejection fraction and rapid ST segment resolution did not differ significantly between those treated in the first 2 hours and those treated later . |
| 30 | Contemporary perception was influenced by immediate demands and needs and these served indirectly to reinforce the determination to play a leading role in the world — a determination based on desire rather than understanding . |