Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were wearing their Sunday best , the ladies in hats or newly pressed headscarves , the gents in overcoats and polished shoes . |
| 2 | World Bank Development Reports classify countries according to Gross National Product ( GNP ) per capita , into low-income , middle-income , industrial market economies , high-income oil exporters and centrally planned economies . |
| 3 | Her backwardly turned ears and slightly lifted tail show that she is interested in mating , even though she may not be ready yet . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | Plenty of stowage for groceries and effectively fiddled worktop areas in the neat galley |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A second type of culture is a ‘ process ’ culture , found in insurance , public utilities and heavily regulated firms . |
| 8 | The health group started to challenge leading politicians from all the political parties and so called experts in the medical field , and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life . |
| 9 | His gaze casually swept up the table instead , skimming the bowed heads and carefully composed expressions until it reached Professor St John Goth , where it stopped short with a sense of shock . |
| 10 | The surgeons shook their heads and unanimously recommended amputation . |
| 11 | In contrast , other people who are afraid of being ordinary and who miss the diversion of continual excitement may need to create a series of crises and emotionally charged situations to reassure themselves that they are alive . |
| 12 | Phillip Tranter controlled through words and strongly expressed beliefs which were difficult to counter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mairi Miller , NALGO delegate to the Strathclyde Joint Trade Union Council , said the implications of budget cuts were job losses and severely reduced services . |
| 15 | The result — we have beautiful new homes and centrally heated redundancy ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On our menus , you 'll find dishes like Loué chicken in a cider sauce , tender veal with pears in a rich sauce , seafood from our Atlantic coast , oysters and locally caught salmon , pike and perch in a beurre blanc Nantais sauce . |
| 18 | He knew nothing about drill , but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer . |
| 19 | The other four dancers regularly interrupt or echo these sequences with images from the past — a robust trio , whose folk steps and causally thrown jumps have the coltish energy of adolescence and two couples who look like lovers courting in the 1920s . |
| 20 | Glue-sniffers , who are n't always kids but sometimes grown men and women , are extremely dangerous when high , because they become immensely strong . |
| 21 | Some idea of relative size and hierarchical organisation is important , although without earthworks or clearly defined areas of finds this is often difficult to assess . |
| 22 | The aristocracy had long chosen to immure its dead in church vaults or specially constructed mausoleums , and this practice reached its peak in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore , built by Victoria after the death of Albert . |
| 23 | Tracker balls , either production models or specially adapted versions , can be much easier to control than a mouse . |
| 24 | Like the makhilas or elaborately worked sticks made of medlar , with a sharp goad concealed in the handle ; these look decorative enough but they were weapons before they became art forms and Basque men always carried them when they went to markets or cattle fairs and often fought with them . |
| 25 | Protection from the prevailing wind can often be provided by rock outcrops or carefully planted shrubs in the background . |
| 26 | The assets of these schemes are held in trusts or separately administered funds . |
| 27 | Firstly , NHS funded care in trusts or directly managed units is identified by way of the contract minimum data set . |
| 28 | The hon. Lady has failed to understand that the ring-fenced money held by the regions is for the trusts or directly managed units . |
| 29 | James Duke of York was unusually deeply interested in colonial affairs and colonial investment : apart from his ownership of what had been New Amsterdam , he was a governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company and of the Royal Africa Company , and several of the politicians at court invested in these companies and even held posts in them . |
| 30 | The Minister was asked many specific questions about the lessons that were learned from the sell-offs and the asset strippings in England and Wales , which in some cases involved Scottish companies and certainly involved companies that will be engaged in the bids for parts of the Scottish Bus Group . |