Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 2 | COMPUTERS often conjure up images of whirling tapes on giant machines , or of bespectacled precocious kids wrestling with incomprehensible maths . |
| 3 | Pending such legislation , improved baby carriers are constantly being produced , and many manufacturers now fit back seat belts into new cars . |
| 4 | ( 1983 ) have found that although different nationalities broadly agree over landscape quality , select national groups produced a greater degree of similarity . |
| 5 | ‘ Air brakes give crews more control over trains ’ |
| 6 | Does the governors ' report to parents ever pick up elements of dissatisfaction and ways in which this was addressed ? |
| 7 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 8 | The wildest , emptiest part of the country — where cauldrons still hang over kitchen fires and shepherds ' dogs wear studded collars to protect them from wolves — is the high , craggy Beira Alta area , where Sabugueiro and Manteigas make great bases for walking . |
| 9 | The head of the Exchange 's advertising department Boris Goldman believes that the opening of the exchange will go a long way to breaking the mafia art market in which Western and Russian intermediaries often knock down prices on Russian works of art . |
| 10 | Finance houses also lease out capital equipment to firms . |
| 11 | Problems also arise over companies that receive funds but subsequently do not perform as expected . |
| 12 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 13 | Actuaries often break down populations for analysis by sex so it is only fair to apply the same process to ourselves . |
| 14 | Unable to wait on the vagaries of the election timetable , land-hungry peasants are seizing farmland in both countries , while disgruntled Nicaraguan ex-combatants from both Contra and government armies periodically take up arms and head for the hills . |
| 15 | Too many coaches simply scale down adult training programmes for this age group . |
| 16 | Thus many nurse educators now set up simulations in the nurse education centre or the ward which allow direct experience of practical nursing skills . |
| 17 | Fletcher resolves this by saying that ‘ [ It ] all depends on what doctors customarily do , ’ so that if doctors customarily switch off ventilators in the circumstances under discussion , then this of itself makes it lawful to do so . |
| 18 | Detergents readily take up dyes so virtually any colour can be provided . |
| 19 | Police yesterday put out warnings on local radio stations telling ticket holders that officers will do everything in their power to stop the rave . |
| 20 | ‘ Men always make up fantasies to tell women when they court them , ’ she said . |
| 21 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 22 | In junior Scrabble , the children either fill in words already on the Scrabble board , or select words from a list . |
| 23 | The truth of the matter is that theory is derived from findings which are put together , and the logical relations between findings together build up theory . |
| 24 | Others merely shrug off questions with ‘ your guess is as good as mine ’ . |
| 25 | Mature students usually end up doing better — they 're there for the right reasons . ’ |
| 26 | YES , Clarke 's Cauliflowers still prop up Radio Five 's Fantasy Football League . |
| 27 | Their hosts today welcome back David Plews who has been ruled out by a hamstring injury sustained at Norton in the opening game of the season . |
| 28 | To be honest , empty barrels just take up space on the |
| 29 | ‘ I am fasting because I see no other way to express my protest against the ways in which our politicians brazenly keep up appearances and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the state as their victory . |
| 30 | I ask Odd-Knut if sledgers often go over cornices . |