Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 2 | These are really the products of symbiotic relationships between forms of fungi and either blue-green or green algae . |
| 3 | Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees . |
| 4 | ‘ Form 150 ’ — went through channels and then rubber-stamped and approved . |
| 5 | Taking the ingredients of the cloak-and-dagger historical novel current in his time , he gave his imaginary country certain recognisable Central European characteristics but only one or two passing references to Vienna and Dresden gave it anything like a real location . |
| 6 | ‘ Not to worry , chum ! ’ said the Lawrence youth benignly , puffing a little on the steps but indestructibly cool and amiable . |
| 7 | As his Latin epitaph on the title page announced , Jonson Workes were for the select few , not only serious readers but also affluent and socially well-positioned readers . |
| 8 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 9 | The remaining 13 regarded the attitudes of their tutors as either neutral or good . |
| 10 | As far as official policies are concerned , assumptions concerning integration have been based on the acceptance of white majority schools as both normal and desirable . |
| 11 | Labour party politicians came to view this examination and the consequent dichotomy between grammar and secondary modern schools as educationally questionable and socially divisive : those attending secondary modern schools were seen as " failures " and their subsequent job opportunities limited by virtue of their education . |
| 12 | For low risk junctions , however , a quite different effect emerges , high risk exemplars are given significantly fewer descriptions than both medium and low risk exemplars , p<0.05 . |
| 13 | Slow clockwise circulation of the ice mass in the Arctic basin , coupled with local winds and both horizontal and vertical ( upwelling ) currents , cause the formation of wide cracks and polynyas ( anomalous patches of open water ) . |
| 14 | The unleaded double-case double lid is met with in parochial , rather than private , vaults and both intramural and churchyard brick-lined graves . |
| 15 | From the 1730s onwards , therefore , it was involved in intermittent but sometimes very bitter disputes with the government , which was notably more orthodox in its attitude to religious matters and often overbearing and insensitive in its efforts to have the papal bull Unigenitus ( see p. 453 ) registered by the Parlement . |
| 16 | With such capacity , initially meaningless cues and initially haphazard or exploratory acts can acquire causal significance . |
| 17 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 18 | John Bartram lost his parents while still young and lived with his grandparents who had emigrated to America with William Penn in 1682 . |
| 19 | FIG. 2 Reaggregate cultures only support the development of 14-day CD4 - CD8 - TCR - thymic precursors when both epithelial and mesenchymal cells are present . |
| 20 | While it is convenient to categorise the divisions within the animal protection and environmental movements as either pragmatic or idealistic , it is important to remember that both are underpinned by , and financially dependent upon , a large reserve of grassroot supporters who , more often than not , have little knowledge or understanding of the complex practical and moral issues involved . |
| 21 | While many of those who were active in the social movements of the 1960s were distrustful of parties , and in some cases viewed society — an ideal society — as an unending process of imaginative creative activity , without any permanently established institutions , those who were deeply engaged in party politics were often inclined to regard the movements as merely disruptive and irresponsible . |
| 22 | The plan has been dismissed by ecologists as both gimmicky and technically unviable . |
| 23 | ‘ Systematic training in supervisory and personal skills and further professional and managerial development ’ . |
| 24 | Better roads and more efficient and cheaper forms of transport have facilitated contact between town and country . |
| 25 | The majority of blacks occupied the most menial and subservient occupational statuses , being employed as agricultural labourers and as unskilled and semi-skilled manual workers in industry . |
| 26 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |
| 27 | The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides . |
| 28 | There were injections , X-rays and much to-ing and fro-ing . |
| 29 | The concepts of a right and a liberty ( as opposed to freedom generally ) probably originated however , in systems of juridical law , and it is in legal systems that they have their most subtle and interesting applications and most thorough and detailed elaborations . |
| 30 | Anyway , we have in God a loving Father who is both aware of our needs and perfectly able and ready to provide for them . |