Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | INROADS DRIVES AHEAD WITH SAFETY |
2 | Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys . |
3 | ‘ Two hundred and fifty pounds in used notes looks very like blackmail but , for these days , it 's a modest demand from a comparatively wealthy man . ’ |
4 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
5 | The crackle of huts lives on by firelight . |
6 | It is clear that the timing of these impacts varies enormously between cases , and that long time periods are required for some impacts to emerge . |
7 | Of course , what applies to animals applies equally to people : indeed , it has always been the declared aim of the behaviourists to understand and to control human behaviour . |
8 | The choice of research tactics follows not from research doctrine , but from decisions in each case as to the best available techniques : the problem defines the methods used , not vice versa . |
9 | In between , the in-service education of the clergy continues apace with sabbaticals and reading weeks and retreats and the good-natured summer schools . |
10 | The sub-head said it all : ‘ The Land of Cedars , Phoenician Sea Cities , and Crusader Castles Thrives Again as Middleman ( sic ) of the Middle East . ’ |
11 | Clinical work with prisoners depends partly on demand and partly on the willingness of psychologists to undertake it , for none are trained as clinical specialists . |
12 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
13 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
14 | The medical neglect of psychosomatic illness and hypochondria must shoulder some of the blame in such situations , because the stigma attached to these disorders owes much to doctors ' negative attitudes . |
15 | But the monomode fibre that British Telecom favours for its trunk lines costs up to £700 per kilometre . |
16 | As discussed in Chapter 1 , the total ban , in the case of non-consumer transactions applies only to liability for death or personal injury ( UCTA 1977 , s 2(1) ) and liability for breach of the implied warranties of good title and quiet possession implied by the SGA and the SGSA ( UCTA 1977 , ss 6(1) and 7(3A) ) . |
17 | Even so , the unpleasantness of these duties arises less from contact with things which the police consider either literally or metaphorically unclean ( such as decomposed bodies and the ‘ dregs and scum of society ’ ) , and more from the risk the police run of displaying emotion . |
18 | The median for upholsterers works out at £95 , but the sample of four is too small to qualify for inclusion in the table . |
19 | LOVE of great cities and vainglorious public monuments comes naturally to despots , and Saddam Hussein is no exception . |
20 | The Soviet Union has disintegrated into separate states , and the so-called Commonwealth of Independent States exists largely on paper as a desperate attempt to maintain some kind of economic and political cooperation . |
21 | It seems unlikely that anything much will come of this discontent — there will always be some students eager to defend an institution that in most universities contributes up to £100,000 to charity each year . |
22 | he 's in there every morning before eight o'clock and he do n't leave there much before half past six , sometimes seven o'clock , and then the workers goes in on Saturdays and if he knows there 's nothing to do just walk around a crowded place and |
23 | Prince 's Youth Business Trust awards grants up to £1,500 although more may be available if more than one person is involved . |
24 | The extraordinary power and influence of " McCarthyism " in " the land of the free " over a period of four years cries out for explanation . |
25 | Now the old Stormont-based hegemony in the north has been swept away , destroyed by its own excesses in the half-century to 1972 — though the poisonous legacy of those years lingers on in terrorism . |
26 | Of those connected with the BUF the experience of three individuals stands out in connection with the impact of the first World War . |
27 | But , remember , there is no point in underestimating buildings costs just in order to secure finance . |
28 | An effectively assessed tax on incomes rises automatically with prices and incomes : the Elizabethan subsidy could only rise by being multiplied or imposed more frequently . |
29 | Injecting oranges feels just like flesh . |
30 | The location of the mints moves northwards through time ( Data : Rigold 1975 ) |