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 )
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