Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our view is that we should let local authorities make their own decisions about their priorities . |
| 2 | * Uganda has announced plans to promote its small population of mountain gorillas as a tourist attraction . |
| 3 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 4 | Because of its importance , most of the great houses launch their latest creations at the Biennale . |
| 5 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 6 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 7 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 8 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 9 | Next to him , I saw my mum push her grey hair from her temples . |
| 10 | To pick out just a few examples : grandparents treat their grandchildren in the same way whether they live in Aberdeen or London ; middle-class people use money to support their close relatives in similar ways whether they live in Swansea , Sheffield or London ; people use their kin network to help them find employment whether they live in Glasgow , Basildon or Corby . |
| 11 | Then a Professor of German Literature applied his literary mind to the Gospels and declared that they were a work of fiction and that Jesus had not actually existed ? |
| 12 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 13 | Last December the Federal Reserve adjusted its reserve requirements on time deposits to encourage banks to lend more . |
| 14 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 15 | The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy . |
| 16 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 17 | George Bush yesterday drafted in Secretary of State James Baker to bolster his flagging bid for re-election . |
| 18 | The grain is sealed before a basecoat is applied ; solid colours or tints are put on next , then the guitar receives its top coats of clear polyurethane . |
| 19 | George Duffield got his second fright of the day when odds-on User Friendly was in trouble two out in the Yorkshire Oaks . |
| 20 | In the United States the President often has to work hard to create a majority to support his proposed legislation in its passage through Congress . |
| 21 | In contrast to such ‘ an increasing grammatization of discursive and textual operations ’ , analysts such as De Lauretis ( 1984 , p. 45 ) want instead to examine how cinema produces its specific effects on spectators through what is specific to images . |
| 22 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 23 | Mr Tsurumaki made his initial fortune in steel trading during the Korean War boom . |
| 24 | The veteran all-rounder produced his best innings for more than two years , being last out for 129 as India were dismissed for 215 in mid-afternoon . |
| 25 | That is a special allocation , in addition to the normal resources made available to local authorities to support their inner-area programmes of social and economic regeneration . |
| 26 | William is at present completing his third year at St Augustine 's . |
| 27 | Will employers make their main cuts in recruitment of poly graduates ? |
| 28 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 29 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 30 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |