Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some nations are predominantly tea drinkers , others will generally prefer coffee .
2 As summer draws to a close , some plants are still cropping , others need winter preparation and , suggests Joy Larkcom , a green manure will do your soil a power of good
3 And ( as will be shown later in this section ) when a physical or sexual abuse investigation , for example , does develop , such investigations are often time consuming and stressful and have to be conducted in the context of other duty work .
4 Such relationships are now history , part of Murdoch 's sunset boulevard .
5 Such methods are very time consuming , somewhat " hit and miss " and very costly .
6 Regardless of the wide use of acupuncture and BEM , hard-nosed sceptics still insist that such methods are entirely placebo oriented , in as much as the patient 's belief that they work effects the cure .
7 One source of authority on such matters was also royalty .
8 But such implications are only part of the problem .
9 These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production .
10 ( Such statements are usually opinion not supported by quoted evidence . )
11 It was becoming easy enough to find biochemical changes that occurred when an animal learned ; the problem was to show that such changes were really part of the memory-making process .
12 The primitive valuables involved in such exchanges were neither money nor cash , but items that were often spent in political and social spheres of activity to form alliances in peacetime and during war , as well as compensation for death and bridewealth .
13 In this sense all anthropologists would agree that such marriages are primarily group concerns .
14 Half a minute later another Frenchman sent his pousse-pousse puller staggering in the gutter with a blow to the head after an apparent argument about the fare , and Joseph realized with a shock that such beatings were merely routine .
15 Such issues are now top of the political agenda , and , as 1992 looms , our outraged European partners are putting on pressure for Britain to clean up its environmental act .
16 Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) .
17 At one time or another these projects were respectively code named : Alaska , California , Montana and Nevada .
18 These reactions were neither jealousy nor possessiveness , she was absolutely certain of that .
19 These products are invariably acid based , designed to strip dull oxidisation films from aluminium window frames decoratively finished and commercial vehicle bodies .
20 Yet these explanations are only part of the story .
21 These spines are slightly rugose and hook shaped .
22 The responses to these statements were subsequently factor analyzed to reveal teachers ’ latent attitudes towards the Solihull booklet and towards SSE .
23 The nature of the difficulty carers experienced with these problems was either tiredness , anxiety or worry , embarrassment , sadness , fear or irritation .
24 These things are only shadow boxing , overgrown schoolboys sparring ; they never come to much .
25 These dreams are usually evidence of some unresolved problem or dilemma .
26 It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless .
27 These bonds are often hydrogen bonds .
28 If further research shows that some of these patients are clinically gluten sensitive ( and we already have some evidence to support this ) , then by implication , the previous definition of coeliac disease ( a flat mucosa ) may have excluded up to half of symptomatic patients , referred for jejunal biopsy , who would benefit clinically from a gluten free diet .
29 Whilst national debate has shifted the focus of urban regeneration policy away from the narrowly defined goals of physical development , the extension of its boundaries has forced MDC to confront the issues of jobs , training and social housing provision , although MDC would argue that these objectives were always part of its long-term agenda .
30 In the pursuit of generality these items were often nonsense syllables .
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