Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is the academics ' interests in the livings that come in the wake of a research career ; or industry 's wish to produce new drugs or insecticides ; or the state 's desire to develop new military armaments or better traffic flows or even to reduce truancy in schools ; these are motivations quite unconnected with the education of students in higher education . |
| 2 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 3 | I believe that all parents would rather pay increased taxes or not receive tax cuts if that would deal with the problem . |
| 4 | Does he go for new tactics or again show faith in the squad he took to Sweden ? |
| 5 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 6 | The act makes it unlawful for an employer to ‘ limit , segregate or classify an employee in any way that would deprive that employee of job opportunities or adversely affect employment status because of their age . ’ |
| 7 | He 'll teach you a few manners and how to play polo properly . ’ |
| 8 | Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals . |
| 9 | Her backwardly turned ears and slightly lifted tail show that she is interested in mating , even though she may not be ready yet . |
| 10 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 11 | For individuals requiring income , an investment in convertibles can bring a higher return than an investment in equities and still give scope for some capital appreciation . |
| 12 | Plenty of stowage for groceries and effectively fiddled worktop areas in the neat galley |
| 13 | Er the problem with the job is it 's very tight inside there so we 've had to use cranes and basically poured concrete er ours is being done by a separate sub-contractor . |
| 14 | The KPMG survey of Information for Strategic Management ( 1990 ) shows that information provided to directors and senior executives of Times Top 1000 companies concentrates on financial indicators and only compares performance against internal self-determined indicators . |
| 15 | She shut her eyes and boldly said hen and hen . |
| 16 | I 'm trying not to scratch , I do n't use perfumed soaps and always wear cotton underwear . |
| 17 | The surgeons shook their heads and unanimously recommended amputation . |
| 18 | Let's seek solutions and not encourage conflict . |
| 19 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 20 | Some large international banks offer their customers export factoring services whereby the bank despatches debtor statements to importers and ultimately collects payment . |
| 21 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
| 22 | Research has proved that we can eat more carbohydrate calories than fat calories and still lose weight ! |
| 23 | The foregoing techniques for measuring mechanical properties are transient or non periodic methods and typically cover time intervals of up to 10 6 s . |
| 24 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 25 | At the last opening , 400 visitors in one afternoon flocked in to admire the Weedons ' strikingly formal walkways flanked by irises , lavender , peonies and closely clipped privet hedges . |
| 26 | Dressed in tweeds and constantly pipe smoking , his imagination often ran away with him . |
| 27 | Moreover , parasitoids may also feed at the nectaries and then infect insect larvae by oviposition thereafter and , in Inga , this seems effective in control at altitudes where ants are uncommon . |
| 28 | The result — we have beautiful new homes and centrally heated redundancy ! |
| 29 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 30 | Some have suffered from high inflation rates and political coups which have undermined the population 's confidence in domestic currencies and thereby encouraged investment in non-productive gold coins or jewellery . |