Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 2 | To liaise with other education and training organisations e.g. Local Government Training Board , Provincial Councils , Local Authority , Central Training Officers , Library Association Groups etc and to coopt other members as appropriate . |
| 3 | Maintenance engineers right and check over some of the process plant on the press floor . |
| 4 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 5 | They live together , eat together , collect male pin-up magazines together and share a reputation as the fogeys of the art world . |
| 6 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 7 | I could n't imagine Ted contemplating the nature of Eva and Dad 's taut happiness or telling of how they were always trying to pull each other 's tracksuit bottoms down and playing games like seeing who could throw a lolly-stick in a bin the most times out of ten . |
| 8 | If you do n't , tear up the appraisal farms today and find a better way to assess performance and make profit . |
| 9 | In Ostland the horde began to loot and destroy with customary Orc efficiency , crushing the spring crops underfoot and gorging themselves on the hard won stores of the local people . |
| 10 | Ordered to destroy them , scientist Lowell ( Bruce Dern ) chooses to destroy his philistine colleagues instead and save one forest . |
| 11 | If you are closer , then your foot curls around and strikes with the knee still part-flexed . |
| 12 | Only one unit of all the British farms in this study was selling dairy products directly and had a demand it could not fulfil . |
| 13 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |
| 14 | In such circumstances a tribunal may chose to construe the Transfer Regulations purposively and decide that they apply . |
| 15 | When the dolphin school eventually stops , too confused or exhausted to swim any further , the purse seiner steams up and sets its net around both dolphins and tuna , and then pulls the bottom closed , just like a drawstring purse . |
| 16 | Morpho supplies fingerprint identification systems worldwide and says it has converted more than 12m fingerprint records . |
| 17 | Some specialised in building boats quickly and had large numbers of boatbuilders but most docks were very small with a work force of only two or three men . |
| 18 | Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places . |
| 19 | The HP SupportPack is a three-year support package available through authorised resellers worldwide and designed to keep customers ' business operations up and running with assurance of next-day product replacement directly from Hewlett-Packard . |
| 20 | In 1667 the Marquess of Worcester , as Constable of St Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean , was ordered to revive the Forest courts there and to see that the Forest laws were obeyed : their discontinuance had brought about ‘ great destruction of timber and retardment of its future growth ’ . |
| 21 | Belbin has taken the analysis of group roles further and argues that up to nine roles can be identified in a work group . |
| 22 | Note that nam.typ and nam2.typ are file names only and do not specify a device or directory . |
| 23 | Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 . |
| 24 | Cement the four chimney sides together and secure on to the roof . |
| 25 | Alan William Britton , 26 , of Farrer Street , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday and admitted going equipped to steal . |
| 26 | He 's doing pop videos now and making stars of the pretty , the talentless , the bizarre . |
| 27 | Other mechanisms must have played a part and their inclusion could alter the best-fit climate sensitivities significantly and lead to improved values for the explained variance . |
| 28 | From help in solving effluent problems quickly and cost effectively , to maximising members ' own effluent processing business opportunities , EPC is the natural partner for engineers operating in this specialist area . |
| 29 | ‘ She had been pestered by threatening phone calls recently and harassed . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just a race , after all — if you 're any good , you can wave your arms about while pulling a horse 's back teeth out and keep yourself out of the stewards ' room . |