Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anglophile university professor who used his modest means to amass 322 British and continental drawings has given the entire lot to the National Gallery . |
| 2 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 3 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 4 | The soldier from the Dishforth-based Army Air Corps had stopped at the station to ask directions but on the way out of the car park he crashed his four ton truck into a wall knocking it down . |
| 5 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 6 | To provide training in research methods which makes them capable subsequently of assuming the role of independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 7 | Or how about your every day football manager , suspect to the whims of ambitious chairmen and demands of football fans who hail you one minute and then call for your head if the glint of silverware is not on the horizon . |
| 8 | As we have already seen in Chapter 1 , the proportion of the temporary labour force who consider themselves self-employed ( 15 per cent ) is rather higher than that of the workforce as a whole ( 11 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 10 | But the relatives of those who died , like Andy Barnes who lost his 15-year-old daughter Paula , are still waiting for compensation . |
| 11 | Car owners who take their old vehicles to designated scrapyards will be entitled to rebates on the levy . |
| 12 | Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ? |
| 13 | As it appears from his zip top I smack my right fist into his face . |
| 14 | He could countenance violence and killing , if only they might provide a way out of the taedium vitae which formed his spiritual landscape . |
| 15 | Reality is simply a feedback mechanism which reveals our inner world . |
| 16 | Madonna , who plays a murder suspect who seduces her married lawyer , has no complaints . |
| 17 | Theoretically , the sulphonamide block could be by-passed if ready-made folic acid were available , but in practice microbes which make their own folic acid are unable to take it up from outside . |
| 18 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 19 | Many years ago when I was in a play with Thora Hird she presented us all at the end of the show with a bottle of champagne . |
| 20 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 21 | Thus immediately he managed to drive a wedge between the virtuous students , worthy of support , who studied sciences for the sake of society , and the self-indulgent arts students who pursued their chosen subject for the sake of their own benefit . |
| 22 | Dad ( John Alexander MacKay ) is a former star baseball player who blew it all by turning Sixties anarchist , ‘ the only radical short stop in history ‘ as Burke deliciously puts it . |
| 23 | Carly Todd , from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , is suffering from a condition called adenosine deaminase deficiency which inhibits her immune system . |
| 24 | Meridian Broadcasting will make its comedy drama debut on January 5 with Full Stretch , a six-part series starring Kevin McNally as ex-Chelsea footballer Baz Levick who runs his own limo hire company from a garage in North London . |
| 25 | His bosses at Datronech Ltd , Aldershot , Hants , insist that any other computer salesmen who damage their expensive VWs will get the same treatment for a month . |
| 26 | Liverpool 's Ian Rush who scored his 200th league goal yesterday |
| 27 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 28 | It was inevitable that this strength , particularly when confronted by such weakness , generated the belief in both countries that they could transact a peace settlement which safeguarded their respective concerns . |
| 29 | What they found was that the river bottom invertebrates which spend their larval stages among the gravel and pebbles on the riverbed plummeted in numbers immediately after the inundation . |
| 30 | All five degree courses are organized and integrated within a common Faculty framework which makes it possible for students to opt for certain units outside their main subject area . |