Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single notes or octaves ring out with a kind of starry brilliance . |
| 2 | On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views . |
| 3 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 4 | We will introduce a new grant , paid through TECs , to help employers , voluntary groups or schools to set up after-school care and holiday arrangements . |
| 5 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 6 | Popularisations encourage a passive , armchair view of the discipline being popularised : the readers or viewers sit back while the canvas is unfolded before them . |
| 7 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 8 | While the Duke of Richmond and a few others remained calm , seeing the essentially limited nature of the outbreaks , some landowners , like Sir Godfrey Webster , temporarily returned from exile , thoroughly enjoyed themselves galloping around the country at night with troops of dragoons or coastguards to hunt down troublemakers . |
| 9 | In this case , speakers or writers start out with a semantic representation of what they want to say or write , and search for the corresponding phonological information ( enabling one to say a word ) or orthographical information ( enabling one to write a word . |
| 10 | Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else , or teenagers leaving home . |
| 11 | In the follow-up work , which continued for several weeks , the class worked on the design of castles inventing all manner of ingenious devices to prevent unwanted intruders or attackers getting in , went on a site visit to a castle , produced drawings and models and carried out a great deal of oral work , all inspired by the original story . |
| 12 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 13 | Fees take months or years to come in , and quite a proportion are never recovered . |
| 14 | But as you hear the laughter , songs and shouts echo off the barren Sahelian hills you ca n't help but feel that Eritrea provides an optimistic boost for those who retain a faith in education . |
| 15 | The dealers , exporters and wholesalers walking round inspecting the produce , discussing prices , negotiating ; the hangers-on standing about in groups smoking , chatting ; the market police and official inspectors strolling round seeing that all is in order . |
| 16 | Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out . |
| 17 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 18 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 19 | Encourage young husbands and fathers to walk out to slaughter — again , no . |
| 20 | There are personality clashes in the band , and jealousies and rivalries spring up , but all dissent disappears when they perform . |
| 21 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 22 | Surf and suntans , antipodean accents , endless brothers and sisters cropping up out of nowhere are all part of the appeal . |
| 23 | Berlin was always more densely textured than other European capitals , with industry , offices and homes jumbled up together even in the inner city , and , in spite of being a free-market island in a sea of socialism , west Berlin was the country 's biggest industrial centre . |
| 24 | Election candidates and doctors clashed over claims that waiting times have increased in the town . |
| 25 | Assorted addicts and alcoholics drifted in and out of the place . |
| 26 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 27 | To be basted with pitch in a dark pen full of brimstone where adders would suck at his eyes and snakes curl round his lying tongue ! |
| 28 | His eyes and ears picked out a flashing red light , an insistent warning bleep . |
| 29 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 30 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |