Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Lister , group managing director , paid tribute to the support received from both the Welsh Office and the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 2 | Many burgh councillors and freeholders were happy enough to see one of their numerous sons placed in even the humblest post in the excise administration . |
| 3 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 4 | Up until this time , the horse will need to have its teeth checked at least every six months . |
| 5 | Mitch agreed with still a great deal of awe in his voice . |
| 6 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 7 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 8 | The national debate concerning Canada 's constitutional future — particularly Quebec 's role within it — which had been under way since the collapse in June 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord [ see pp. 37519-20 ] , continued in June but showed some evidence of a greater willingness to compromise by both the separatist French minority and the English-speaking majority . |
| 9 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 10 | ( 1984 ) found that the cross-section benefit elasticities as estimated from the Family Expenditure Survey data for 1972–7 exhibited considerable variability depending on how the relevant income variables were constructed . |
| 11 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 12 | Students of typography come from quite a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 13 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
| 14 | the system is set up so that the engine for each car arrives at just the right moment . ’ |
| 15 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 16 | You will be surprised at how differently the authors look at even an elementary subject . |
| 17 | It is also advisable not to wear contact lenses , as you will have your eyes closed for quite a long time , usually about twenty minutes . |
| 18 | But they decided to establish a study committee in Brussels to look at both a common market and the possibilities for ‘ sector ’ co-operation . |
| 19 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 20 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 21 | Hellige and Longstreth ( 1981 ) asked subjects to tap with either the left or right index finger . |
| 22 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 23 | The loch is very weedy and fishing restricted to only a few clear patches ; but there are some super trout to be had , deep bodied and golden in colour . |
| 24 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 25 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 26 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 27 | This rule resulted in only a small minority of married women becoming fully insured and helped to reinforce their financial dependence within marriage . |
| 28 | Travis crossed to where the first-aid box sat and extracted some pain-killers . |
| 29 | With their characteristic and pervasive atmosphere of sexuality and sensuality and their erotic tales presented or disguised within verbal play , it is hardly surprising that many have considered " pornography " to be an appropriate term to describe at least a good part of what is found in these fabliaux . |
| 30 | There is strong evidence that K + channels exist in both the apical and basolateral membranes of gastric parietal cells . |