Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 2 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 3 | She was smartly dressed in a grey two-piece suit and posed elegantly on a pair of high heels . |
| 4 | You can learn how to communicate better with the people in your care by : |
| 5 | If one looks at that erm built area where we are now that looks perhaps like a heron on a perch , and looks immediately east of that , you have Strensall Common , most of which is a restricted area . |
| 6 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 7 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 8 | In a language with contrastive intonation patterns , the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons . |
| 9 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 10 | The gardens descend thereafter in a series of terraces and pavilions by Plečnik . |
| 11 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |
| 12 | For each cell , the equations are solved simultaneously in a series of discrete time steps . |
| 13 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 14 | Considered primarily as a means of spoken communication , language has been regarded , both traditionally and in modern linguistics , as a system for translating meanings in the speaker 's mind into sounds , or conversely , for translating sounds into meanings in the hearer 's mind . |
| 15 | Outside London might be shivering in the biting cold of a January morning , here in the foyer of the British and Cosmopolitan Insurance building centrally heated air oozed steadily from a series of concealed vents to waft summer warmth into every corner . |
| 16 | The season of the hunt had come again to the people of the North Water . |
| 17 | Between 1976 and 1983 , he rose steadily through a series of promotions and posts in Air Force security . |
| 18 | Prince Richard 's Private Secretary , Clive Fairbrother , watched his master sprint away from the aircraft towards him , resenting the way his glossy brown hair fell back smoothly after the wind ruffled it . |
| 19 | Further negotiations led finally to a series of agreements , signed in Geneva in April 1988 , providing for the withdrawal of Soviet forces . |
| 20 | Terrified , they seek fruitlessly for a means of escape from their hunters . |
| 21 | the implementation of strategies will in themselves depend greatly upon a series of further conditioning variables such as managerial organisation , patterns of authority within the management hierarchy and , above all , upon the power of oppositional groups ( especially trade unions ) . |
| 22 | On the second day of their official visit to Korea they fought a bitter personal conflict by ignoring each other and communicating only with a series of grimaces . |
| 23 | But such appointments could be made only to the staff of university extra-mural departments and Approved Associations were excluded . |
| 24 | It was virulent and hate-filled and directed entirely at the people beneath them . |
| 25 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 26 | I have no idea why the body could not have been built directly onto the chassis at ground level for so much effort would have been saved . |
| 27 | A group of fifty company houses known as Cammells Row were built close to the works on Chesterfield Road . |
| 28 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 29 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 30 | Optical systems use the actual picture image as the signal source which is continuously evaluated electronically as a means of determining and holding the point of focus . |