Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 2 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 3 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 4 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 5 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 6 | Sir Ranulph said he became bad-tempered and tensions developed between the two men as their strength ebbed away . |
| 7 | The courts can order presses to be stopped for the same reasons as they can order assets to be frozen or property to be returned . |
| 8 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 9 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 10 | The row could make for a strained atmosphere as Mr Major spends the Premier 's traditional weekend with the Queen . |
| 11 | Quickly picking up the Efik language and immersing herself in work amongst the women , Mary applied for a remote station where she could live frugally and send more of her £60 salary to her family in Scotland . |
| 12 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 13 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 14 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 15 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 16 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 17 | This order , as its name suggests , was developed as a richer example than the Corinthian , but it is only in the capital that it differs materially . |
| 18 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | They seem to have taken the view that deportation was justified as a last resort when the victim had persistently ignored warnings , and when nothing further could be done to achieve his rehabilitation . |
| 21 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 22 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 23 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 24 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 25 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |
| 26 | Simmer for a few minutes until the sauce is thickened . |
| 27 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 28 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 29 | Rolls Royce Motors was able to continue as a successful company when the parent company went bankrupt ( restructuring had to take place at this point with government help ) . |
| 30 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |