Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our BBC experts track down elusive edging and special spades among other queries . |
| 2 | Our principal concern , in the present context , is to consider how conflicts between social groups develop within the limits of given structural conditions , how such conflicts bring about political change , and what kinds of social group play a major role in this process . |
| 3 | A familiar sound in the Amazonian rainforest as the loggers bring down another mahogany tree . |
| 4 | Ad hoc groups like the North-South and Israel/Palestine Working Groups head up different projects with a style that makes for continuity . |
| 5 | Some musical notes trigger off parental feelings , others sexual ones and still others self-protection . |
| 6 | Mr King said : ‘ While Mr Kinnock and his front-benchers make out that Labour is a party which believes in nuclear defence , behind them the back benches are packed with those who believe exactly the opposite . |
| 7 | Feed manufacturers make up this deficiency in their compound feeds for hard work and stud purposes , ie they ‘ balance ’ the mixture . |
| 8 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 9 | In mangrove swamps the branches send down new roots which take hold and then support the branch as it moves ever further out . |
| 10 | Some candidates send in meagre scripts in which every answer is carefully labelled ‘ no time to finish . ’ |
| 11 | Theoretically they mark a stage in the formation of organic soils , but as neither mosses nor lichens put down penetrating roots , and earthworms are lacking , organic material remains mostly superficial . |
| 12 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |
| 13 | Both blackish and Magellanic oystercatchers feed on the rocky reefs exposed by the ebb tide , while two-banded plovers and white-rumped sandpipers seek out little crustaceans and marine worms in the sand . |
| 14 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 15 | When an order is executed , the two traders fill out clearing slips , which are then matched by the exchange . |
| 16 | His shops rake in more money per square foot than most other British retailers . |
| 17 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 18 | Faldo spent almost 30 hours between Thursday and Sunday either playing , hitting shots on the range or working on his putting and he hopes the back-breaking labours pay off next weekend . |
| 19 | Crash-cutting the best of the sight gags to a bass-heavy mix of Tone Loc 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ , editing the pedestrian plot down to is essential equation ( relaxed grown-up sorts out uptight kid note the difference to the standard Hughes formula : relaxed kids sort out uptight grown-up ) , it 's three minutes of pure cinematic bliss . |
| 20 | Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem . |
| 21 | Squigs bounce over intervening troops and scenery and land where indicated . |
| 22 | Our cars pump out 500,000 tonnes of poisonous lead fumes per year . |
| 23 | In the heart of the English countryside he runs a workshop where four craftsmen turn out fine furniture . |
| 24 | The fact that some policewomen carry out both sets of duties allows them to contrast the two types of community relations , with general community relations work being seen as ‘ fun ’ and juvenile liaison as more demanding and difficult . |
| 25 | Second-year units take up specific issues such as nostalgia for lost innocence and order , the literature of political commitment , the relationship between artistic form and cultural change , and the significant emergence of women as producers of literature . |
| 26 | Our eyes take in more information than any other of our senses . |
| 27 | Hopeless romantics , Sox fans come back each Spring for more , but by the time of this Orioles game last year were already conceding that the 1991 team was not one on which to pin their perennial dreams . |
| 28 | The ghost car shapes throw up real spray at me . |
| 29 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |
| 30 | Nearly 1,000 tots line up each year for the championship , swimming in competitive matches about once every three weeks during the winter months . |