Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff . |
| 2 | This is also the venue for the annual Howden Agricultural Show , which every year brings friends and visitors together to revel for two days in the old-fashioned atmosphere of an English country fair . |
| 3 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 4 | 6 How far had the boats still to travel at 8. p.m ? |
| 5 | ‘ That Mrs Scamp is an old witch , I tell you , I come here three weeks ago to look after this place for my brother Rajiv while he does his business accountancy course . |
| 6 | No possibilities here to warm to any feeling of myself as " clever " ; the aching question instead was why the divine hand had seen fit to bestow these talents on me and not on the next child . |
| 7 | Isaac and Austin Copley set up the rail users group over 2 years ago to complain about poor service on the Banbury London line . |
| 8 | A variant would partly ’ privatise ’ social security by cutting benefits ( and payroll taxes ) and getting workers instead to invest in private pension funds . |
| 9 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 10 | Because I changed out there , but we had to pay about five pounds just to change from one line to the other . |
| 11 | After that there are ever greater distances still to conquer in 48 hour , 6 day and the ultimate 1,000 mile races . |
| 12 | ‘ We will just have to rely on them and our relatives now to get through this . |
| 13 | Let us hope that librarians of the right stuff ( to use a Victorian expression ) will find arguments here to take to those who provide the funds to demand , not ask , that funds be provided to stop unnecessary dispersals , and that space be acquired for storage — no longer difficult in the worst property slump since the war . |
| 14 | In his first major memorandum to the committee ( the famous Basic Problems of Social Security with Heads of a Scheme ) , Beveridge argued that the crux of the problem was to raise pensions sufficiently to dispense with means-tested supplementation from the Assistance Board ( so that the insurance basis for the entire social security plan would not be eroded ) , and concluded that ‘ these pensions will be paid on proof of age , without means test and without proof of disability or retirement from work ’ . |
| 15 | For gases , however , the weakness of the Raman effect combined with low sample density makes spectra hard to obtain without special care . |
| 16 | Capital fleeing the country has been recycled through family connections abroad to reappear as fresh capital imports capable of attracting the more recently relaxed rules for foreign investors , regardless of national or ethnic origin . |
| 17 | Because of the cost involved , it is rare for an investor to instruct its accountants or lawyers actually to proceed with this exercise until the main terms of the acquisition and investment have been agreed and the offer letter signed . |
| 18 | The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India . |
| 19 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 20 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 21 | Now do you ever buy stamps though to give to other people ? |
| 22 | Take some moments again to think about this . |
| 23 | Several have recently set up services specifically to deal in repossessed properties . |
| 24 | What is going on when we get our students seriously to reflect in this way ? |
| 25 | A TREND in the pharmaceutical industry towards designing drugs specifically to interact with certain molecules in the body is creating a new industry sector devoted to the development of ‘ one-handed ’ molecules . |