Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let us assume that standard credit terms for goods received and despatched in this particular industry involve payment after 30 days with neither discounts for early payment nor penalties for late payment . |
| 2 | Extra value and appeal has been added by Stanley Tools to its three blade-locking Galaxie II measuring tapes , with the addition of steel belt clips for extra convenience when working . |
| 3 | This fungus , Pilobolus , is commonly found growing on the surface of bovine faecal pats about one week after these have been deposited . |
| 4 | When you go to cast a vote in France , your ballot paper has two names on it , the name of the candidate for , or at least it has for each party or for each candidate two names . |
| 5 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 6 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 7 | F. This stands for forward pricing and indicates that investors can be given no firm price before the transaction takes place . |
| 8 | In the Friday workouts , ‘ q ’ stands for quick pace and ‘ e ’ stands for easy . |
| 9 | Manifests as sudden weakness and shortness of breath with left abdominal pain and marked abdominal swelling . |
| 10 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 11 | The male then looks for another mate and he may escort as many as five females through the nest . |
| 12 | PLAYER : Lucianus , nephew to the king … usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother 's incestuous marriage … loses his reason … throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy … staggering from the suicidal ( A pose ) to the homicidal ( Here he kills " POLONIUS " ) … he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity — ( A somewhat oedipal embrace ) begs her to repent and recant — ( He springs up , still talking . ) |
| 13 | He adds for good measure that the public-sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts . |
| 14 | This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices . |
| 15 | The usual differential diagnosis lies between non-specific urethritis and gonorrhoea . |
| 16 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 17 | A media specialist , for instance , may well be a teacher who has through additional training and experience gained an extra competency ; a person with full professional qualifications and experience as a librarian may also ( as we saw ) be a recognized teacher , or have a diploma in educational technology . |
| 18 | But if this is a feature of modern society and its thought patterns , then inescapably the point holds for higher education as well . |
| 19 | This holds for modern society as well . |
| 20 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 21 | What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . |
| 22 | However Skinner ( 1957 ) writes of verbal behaviour as being ‘ under the control of extremely subtle properties ’ of a stimulus , but never clarifies what this might mean . |
| 23 | For Marx , a commodity is : an object outside us , a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another . |
| 24 | This split is n't perfect because it is possible for some complex types of software error to produce what looks like random failure because a particular set of rare events have to occur . |
| 25 | It looks like hard work but exciting too . |
| 26 | This outstanding building stands amongst attractive woodland and grounds . |
| 27 | " I do n't like bedding plants but I love to use things like Alchemilla mollis and all the ground covers like creeping mint and thyme , chamomile and Tolmiea menziesii . |
| 28 | This research aims to identify what lies behind successful collaboration and to draw lessons about best practice in the formulation and management of collaboration . |
| 29 | An even multiple ( including zero ) means that the pump is itself resonant , and this double resonance lies behind optical bistability and the sideband instabilities analysed by Lugiato and co-workers . |
| 30 | PostScript normally eliminates whatever lies under another object but , by using the overprint option , it can be forced to leave the background intact so that the topmost colour combines with that underneath to produce a different effect . |