Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , unlike the rat , the development of pre-primitive streak stage mouse embryos is extremely unpredictable in vitro and although development is much improved if embryos are explanted after the primitive streak has formed it seems to be a general finding that normal growth and development can not be sustained much beyond 24 or 36 h in culture . |
| 2 | It was in a constant state of reoccupation , favoured only by marginal or twilight enterprises indifferent to a fundamentally inhuman environment . |
| 3 | Some researchers maintain that many of these principles are genetically programmed , and it is this which explains how it is possible for speakers of the same language to develop similar and highly complex knowledge of their language , even though , in the normal language learning situation , they will have been exposed only to limited and random samples of speech . |
| 4 | Joint liability is the liability undertaken together by two or more vendors . |
| 5 | The ‘ insipid monotony ’ of a social life without a press ( only two government papers were tolerated ) , without clubs , without ‘ respectable cafes ’ , was broken only by religious and court festivals . |
| 6 | In all the many thousands of words that have been expended on Eliot 's achievements , this crucial matter — his alertness to , and exploiting of , the rhythms of the English verse-line — remains a vacuum , occupied only by unsupported and insupportable appeals to ‘ the ear ’ . |
| 7 | Composting is good , though highly labour-intensive because the rubbish has to be sorted manually into biodegradable and non-biodegradable material . |
| 8 | Equally , any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules . |
| 9 | Such effects were reported more by co-resident as compared with extra-resident carers . |
| 10 | Bob Dixon , the man responsible for these fences , is a skilled , experienced groundsman who has forgotten more about fence-building than most in his craft will ever know . |
| 11 | Their headteachers were approached early in 1984 and asked if they and their staff were willing to take part in the survey . |
| 12 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 13 | Comment and discussion were confined mainly to financial and commercial circles interested in the prospective EMU , to foreign and economic ministries in the Twelve's capitals . |
| 14 | Located immediately above this and resembling a length of millet ( as bought for budgerigars ) are the male flowers . |
| 15 | More recently this has received added support from the environmental lobby , which has also looked askance at all but the most picturesque forms of employment being introduced into rural areas . |
| 16 | And then the stock stock take was dropped then for four or five days . |
| 17 | Indeed , it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division . |
| 18 | I know that we 're meeting with the company next week , but whether or not anything 's come forward on that and also erm in reference to the pensions section , erm , just correct your deliberate mistake and part timers ca n't enter the Securicor Pension Scheme . |
| 19 | The BD8 ( form of registration of blindness or partial sight ) is completed by the consultant ophthalmologist and is designed primarily for medical and legal purposes . |
| 20 | So , with less publicity , has Smith 's team ; at least , it has come apart at one or two seams . |
| 21 | Setting his drama in 1988 , writer-director Dehlavi makes this human tragedy the epicentre of a nation torn asunder by religious and political pressures . |
| 22 | The training of musicians , both instrumental and vocal , is organised systematically through local and residential courses . |
| 23 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 24 | Those themes , some of which are very clear within the document , others were hidden away in 1983 and have become more important since then . |
| 25 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 26 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 27 | In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field . |
| 28 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 29 | If he led his followers against the Auvergne while one of his stepbrothers fought against the Burgundians , Theuderic must have done so in 523 or 524 . |
| 30 | Assuming pre-tax profits of £230m , before one-off property income , Sears shares are on a p/e of 10.5 at 118p , a 10 per cent discount to the market , and are on a yield of over 6 per cent , exceeded only by Next and Storehouse . |