Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't want that all over the floor . ’ |
| 2 | The female lays a great number of eggs , attaching each individually to the leaf of a water plant . |
| 3 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 4 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 5 | The jet crashed in a ball of flame , destroying 15 cars and damaging 10 more but further evidence of the good fortune became clear yesterday with the sight of the aircraft wreckage embedded in mud . |
| 6 | Yet at the same time they welcomed the way the study mapped out areas on concern , in relation to the respective responsibilities of company directors executive and non-executive , auditors and shareholders , much of which remain unaddressed even after the Cadbury report . |
| 7 | Scholz listened gravely , taking pinches of tobacco and pressing each gently into the pipe with his thumb , then sucking noisily to make sure it was n't too tight . |
| 8 | Bracken scratched her tender skin , but she was barely aware of it , her every nerve ending alive only to the man touching her with such consummate skill . |
| 9 | The students felt left behind , living in relative poverty while businessmen , getihu , were becoming rich often at the expense of the weaker groups in society . |
| 10 | The forceplate can pick up damage while a horse still looks normal even to a trainer 's practised eye . |
| 11 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 12 | Sinks will need a minimum of two 100 watt incandescent bulbs or two 75 watt reflector floodlights which will focus light directly onto the bowls and draining boards . |
| 13 | It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered . |
| 14 | It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered . |
| 15 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 16 | We will explore this further in the chapter dealing with tactics . |
| 17 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 18 | I have considered this previously in the context of necessity , and have suggested that necessity may provide an adequate ground for ignoring such a request . |
| 19 | The following account will suggest that many such pairs are etymological doublets , and we shall consider this further in an appendix to the chapter . |
| 20 | You place this somewhere in the middle of the lines . |
| 21 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 22 | This was considered serious enough by the Keraing to have supplied Tandri with the cost of a new mast which he had promised to have cut from the forest of Bouton , an island we knew nothing about on the south-east of Celebes , a two-day sail across the Gulf of Palopo . |
| 23 | The morals one finds at the end of the fabliaux are generally relevant at least in part to the tales that have been told , and on the whole appear ironic only in the sense of the contrast between the worldly-wise , pragmatic and cynical counselling they most frequently offer and the idealistic norms of Christian moralizing that the reader is otherwise prepared for . |
| 24 | Say three o'clock in the afternoon a fortnight today . |
| 25 | and after say three o'clock in the afternoon they 'd do activities , work connected with |
| 26 | However , it was obviously not deemed grand enough by the Moon of the manor at the beginning of the seventeenth century who built on the exquisite Renaissance porch in Purbeck limestone . |
| 27 | The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline . |
| 28 | That was in 1987 ; now the fad has soft-shoed across from the streets of Brooklyn and the Bronx and become a cult throughout Europe . ’ |
| 29 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 30 | Now I 'm going to come clean right at the beginning . |