Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rare blue lizards scurry among the rocks of Petra ; clumps of black lilies grow beside the King 's Highway ; the few oases teem with birds . |
| 2 | At present , few opportunities exist for citizens to act as participants in public life . |
| 3 | Since then , despite deep and life changing bonds being formed , some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong . |
| 4 | Thirdly , in animals , some proteins serve as hormones , such as growth hormone . |
| 5 | On the other hand , some accents differ from others in having more phonemes and phonemic contrasts . |
| 6 | The volume of economic transnational practices has increased phenomenally since the 1950s , as evidenced by the tremendous growth of foreign trade , l and this means that even some quite poor people in some poor countries can now distinguish many consumer goods in terms of their origins and the status-conferring advantages that some origins have over others . |
| 7 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 8 | ( A few exceptions exist in soliloquies or in dramatic dialogue , but even these are conservative : an unusual ending comprises a close in the relative or dominant ! ) |
| 9 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 10 | One political response to this has been to attempt to reinforce the role of the family as the primary carer , and to identify why some families appear throughout generations to be unable to solve their problems without recourse to public assistance . |
| 11 | In 1755 Euler wrote , " If some quantities depend upon others in such a way as to undergo change when the latter re changed then the former are called functions of the latter . " |
| 12 | Some firms insist on partners submitting themselves for regular medical examinations after reaching a certain age and for disclosure of the results to all partners . |
| 13 | The main idea here has been to exploit the existence of particles known as ‘ muons ’ which in some ways behave like electrons , but are some 207 times heavier and are unstable . |
| 14 | They want to encourage multiple land use , but some uses conflict with others . |
| 15 | The Merchant Navy officers ' union , NUMAST , in its submission to the Donaldson inquiry , claimed yesterday that some tankers sail with crews unable to steer or understand basic safety rules . |
| 16 | Some mums walk in shops . |
| 17 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 18 | Attention is paid to the negative effects which some children have on teachers when , for various reasons , they seem to be ‘ unteachable ’ and to reject what their teachers are trying to offer . |
| 19 | Isolating stallions from other horses obviously plays a large part in the aggression and even viciousness some stallions display towards mares . |
| 20 | A few examples remain of pieces of land still in no single ownership , such as meadowland shared between Axminster and Kilmington parishes in Devon alongside the river Axe near Newenham Abbey , common land on Dartmoor shared between Bridestowe and Sourton parishes , and meadow alongside the River Avon in Wiltshire shared between the parishes of Broughton Gifford and Melksham Without . |
| 21 | Rule 43 is where they can keep some lags separate from others for their own safety , like . |
| 22 | If only a few births occur to teenagers who are under 18 years old , then the infant mortality of the " under 20 " maternal age group may be dominated by the lower mortality at maternal ages 18–19 , which may explain the apparent " anomaly " of the Danish data . |
| 23 | Neither is the rosy functionalist conception of the family based on complementary roles correct ; some aspects of consumption might be shared , such as a common roof , but the unequal distribution of power , the prevalence of paid employment among married women , and the violence some women suffer from men they live with , precludes such an interpretation . |
| 24 | Realising the health hazards of smoking cigarettes , some smokers switch to pipes or cigars in the belief that this is a less dangerous form of smoking . |
| 25 | Some terebellids live in burrows in the substrate , others build tubes of coral sand which they pick up , piece by piece , using the sticky tentacles . |
| 26 | Many of the funds held by such institutions come from investments made by ordinary employees , rather than the most wealthy members of society . |
| 27 | Most such leagues play at lunchtimes , on varying days , so a large , reliable squad would be a distinct advantage . ’ |
| 28 | Such duties derive from decisions of the Courts of Chancery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , intended to ensure that persons/trustees who held assets or provided services for the benefit of others did so in good faith and for the benefit of those they represented . |
| 29 | Now 26 police forces from the midlands and the south are teaming up to counter the menace such gatherings cause to landowners and the general public . |
| 30 | Such companies have at times faced a petroleum revenue tax rate of over 90 per cent , considerably in excess of anything they were led to expect when they first went into the North Sea . |