Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 2 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 3 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 4 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 5 | Liquids much above 30 per cent tend to be unstable , unless alcohol or urea is included , which adds to the expense so liquid products rarely exceed this level . |
| 6 | Chapter 11 is different from British ‘ receivership ’ , where the courts mostly sack existing management and put a finance — but , some would say , not a business — expert in charge . |
| 7 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 8 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 9 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 10 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 11 | Concern about skin cancer and the pain caused by overexposure to the sun are reasons enough to take sensible precautions if sunbathing . |
| 12 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 13 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 14 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 15 | Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them . |
| 16 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 17 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 18 | War had resulted from the separate acts of various leaders , none of whom wanted war as the outcome , and these separate acts so reinforced mutual fears and suspicions that war became , in a sense , unavoidable . |
| 19 | Exact equivalents between UK qualifications and overseas qualifications can rarely be given , but the notes below give some idea of the recognition granted to some qualifications . |
| 20 | There was an obvious need to bring operations together to maintain high levels of customer service and cut the proliferation of unnecessary costs which arose from being in five separate sites . |
| 21 | The emissions only contained one part per million of hydrochloric acid . ’ |
| 22 | for a variety of reasons only work certain days . |
| 23 | In fastening the strips together to construct any model , choice has to be made of the correct size of nut and bolt involving both sorting , matching and then screwing . |
| 24 | ‘ It is also nearer the coast than our previous activities so offers different constraints of beaches , wildlife and vessel traffic . |
| 25 | What is more , no special preparation had to be made , no time had to be set aside , programmes only lasted fifteen minutes , and one could enter and leave as one pleased . |
| 26 | Gangs of the energy clans jealously guarded those ports which gave access to power stations and thus to the heat sink . |
| 27 | Fairies greatly value human babies as a means of introducing new blood to their dwindling race , so have been known to steal them and leave a useless object behind . |
| 28 | Our finding that patients with healed duodenal ulcers have disordered patterns of antroduodenal motility , which could promote sequestration of acid within the bulb , provides indirect support for this hypothesis , as do preliminary reports that cisapride 10 mg three times daily reduces 24 h intraduodenal acidity in healthy volunteers without affecting gastric pH . |
| 29 | Discriminatory policies merely encourage established foreigners to employ marginally corrupt locals , thus adding a further disincentive to new entrants by conspiring to maintain the unsatisfactory status quo . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , as always seems to be the case , the area in question falls across two adjoining maps and the only way to check the theory is to join the two maps together using double-sided Sellotape . |