Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 3 | The Seebohm Report emphasised family work with elderly people , but the social workers skilled to do this seldom receive the opportunity ; many seem willing to accept the inevitability of case loads taken up by high priority child protection . |
| 4 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 5 | Planned maintenance means that routine servicing and overhaul arrangements are scheduled in advance and contingency plans drawn up for unexpected breakdowns . |
| 6 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 7 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 8 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 9 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 10 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | University lecturers come out on strike |
| 12 | A suitable plane at these parameter values turns out to be the plane , which includes C+ , and the return map obtained , for r-values just less than and just greater than , is shown schematically in Fig. 6.7 . |
| 13 | The people in gym shoes dispersed quickly into different rooms while special dismantling personnel leapt out from behind lockers and took charge of the ladder . |
| 14 | The original plans for the building have not survived , but David Bennett , district building officer for North Bedfordshire HA , has constructed the following description from the building notes drawn up by George Cloake and John Wing : |
| 15 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 16 | Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence . |
| 17 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 18 | The account was then allowed to lie dormant while Yousefi collected the cheque books sent out at regular intervals . |
| 19 | policy and assessment branches set up within HSE to co–ordinate and stimulate effort on major hazards |
| 20 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 21 | Waistcoat and shirt rags pulled back from her shoulders along with the shift beneath , which had split like tissue paper . |
| 22 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 23 | They scarcely noticed the occasional ravine and were careful to avoid the mires and blanket bogs laid down by Nature to trap the unwary . |
| 24 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 25 | Promoted by the ILP and the Women 's International League , Peace Crusade branches sprang up throughout Northern England and the Midlands , getting large numbers of women out onto the streets to demonstrate for peace negotiations , despite constant harassment from patriotic bystanders . |
| 26 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
| 27 | Thin silk cords and silver chains hung down from the nets , which Apanage adjusting by pulling and tweaking them . |
| 28 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 29 | permission from the Association of Northern Ireland Car Clubs to opt out of the NI championship for one year only , but they have agreed and so will be running the event for vintage , historic and class cars only , ’ says William Heaney of the TSCC . |
| 30 | But how do our actual eating patterns measure up to the ideal ? |