Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday . |
| 2 | Originally a triple-purpose breed , it is often used as a suckler cow which has excellent fertility and calves easily ( the pelvis is unusually wide ) , with enough milk for her fast-growing , early-maturing calf . |
| 3 | The Royal Bank 's participation was the brainchild of Bill Speirs , a lecturer in management at Sheffield University who has close ties with the Branch . |
| 4 | Most petrological microscopes can be fitted with photomicrography accessories which allow automatic exposure determination ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 5 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 6 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
| 7 | Now I 'm a G P we have ten minutes . |
| 8 | The Department has specific responsibility for senior management remuneration , management development and Group personnel policies which involves close liaison with Personnel colleagues and line managers throughout the world . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 10 | It was prompted by a memorandum from the Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice et Officiers Judiciaires which reviewed current practice and suggested the introduction of a new mode of service involving direct communication between a huissier de justice in the country of origin and a similar officer in the country of service . |
| 11 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 12 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 13 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 14 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
| 15 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 16 | The ghinocerous part about it is the mega-big way that Citizen Kane have put the title single of their first and latest album on the doorsteps for milk drinkers who want some rhythm and blues with breakfast , in a tape on offer with extra pintas . |
| 17 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |
| 18 | Preliminary results indicate that an assessment instrument which links specific aims and the actions necessary to achieve them can help to overcome this problem . |
| 19 | At very high frequencies difficulties arise through the skin effect which restricts current flow to a region near the surface of a conducting medium . |
| 20 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 21 | But against that , a version of Hendrix 's ‘ Manic Depression ’ is a cerebral card trick which warrants polite applause and scant gut reaction . |
| 22 | WHEN a member of a Harlem street gang decides to escape his life of crime by using his DJ skills he receives little support , and the growing tension leads to violence . |
| 23 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
| 24 | Three out of the five LEAs in the writer 's sample had developed arts programmes which included this type of teacher . |
| 25 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 26 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 27 | The department staff are engaged in a series of major field research projects which generate varied research opportunities for postgraduate students . |
| 28 | This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members . |
| 29 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 30 | While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning . |