Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |
| 2 | Trade union horizons rarely rise above the economistic , and fail to address the political and cultural aspects of the crisis that working class people are living through . |
| 3 | I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house . |
| 4 | Notice that the patterns rarely fall on the downbeat . |
| 5 | Projects rarely develop in a totally predictable fashion and thus require close and detailed control both during the implementation phase and after they are fully operational . |
| 6 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 7 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 8 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 9 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 10 | It has also been pointed out previously that coordinate singularities necessarily occur in the regions II and III that contain the approaching waves . |
| 11 | Since Agrostis/Festuca swards only occur on the more fertile soils and are agriculturally more productive , heavy stocking not only alters the vegetation composition but reduces the grazing value . |
| 12 | I am referring , of course , to the fact that birds ' knees apparently bend in the opposite direction to ours — they appear to lift their legs backwards in contrast to our forward movement ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 13 | As the cell proceeds down a pathway genes are switched on and off reflecting an internal programme , for external signals only act at the branch points , directing the cell along one or other of the paths open to it . |
| 14 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 15 | The images together speak of the losses within language incurred through the passages of migration — losses accrued through violation , silence and often subtlety . |
| 16 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 17 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 18 | One sector is designated ‘ prime user ’ of a section of track , for example , and the other sectors only contribute to the extent that they cause additional ‘ avoidable ’ costs . |
| 19 | Much heralded , the comics renaissance of the last five years has worn its For Mature Readers Only label like a badge of honour and serious intent . |
| 20 | The reason is that efficiency gains accrue across the whole range of a firm 's output : the welfare losses only arise from the marginal loss in output as monopoly prices are changed . |
| 21 | … but in my opinion there can not be a general rule of universal application that the rules of the courts of equity as to confidential relationships necessarily apply to the relation of husband and wife . |
| 22 | Pathways from the two ears thus converge on the olivary body at each side ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 23 | The basic modern administrative units broadly correspond to the parishes , manors , tithings and townships of the medieval and later landscape . |
| 24 | Blood vessels normally grow during the menstrual cycle , embryonic development and wound healing . |
| 25 | Another recent auction in Leeds saw a run-down stone farmhouse without water or other amenities finally fall under the hammer for £330,500 . |
| 26 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 27 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 28 | Admittedly , imprinting was usually thought of as the process by which animals normally learn about the characteristics of their species , even though a reference was occasionally made to ‘ asexual imprinting ’ ( Aberle et al . , |
| 29 | Electrolytes such as sodium chloride dissociate in aqueous solutions The colligative properties of electrolyte solutions thus depend on the number but not the nature of the solute ions present in solution . |
| 30 | We need to look beyond the social position readers already occupy to the ways in which reading as an activity is itself structured in different contexts . |