Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 2 | The clubhouse was tucked into a line of fir trees , a low building rich with the reds and browns of natural wood . |
| 3 | My father and mother stand nearer to the babies than I and the whole ensemble is posed on an interminable expanse of medium-cut grass . |
| 4 | I hope that he will take on board some of the concerns that have been expressed to me . |
| 5 | The British government had waved through the bid in the space of just ten days in March 1985 on the grounds that the money was indeed all theirs . |
| 6 | Havel dismissed Ivan Gasparovic as Federal Prosecutor on March 2 on the grounds that he lacked the authority to carry out his job . |
| 7 | Governor Cecil Andrus , a conservative anti-abortion Democrat , vetoed the legislation on March 30 on the grounds that it was too restrictive . |
| 8 | So being psychologists who ca n't get enough of it , empirical solid data , we tend to erm be a bit dismissive of the methods that were used by the Although these laws tend to describe what th what 's happening , they do n't actually tell you how they 're achieved . |
| 9 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 10 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will understand if some of us treat with a certain amount of scepticism some of the assurances that BR has subsequently given . |
| 11 | I think there 've been one or two not er brush ups you know in the pubs once er or twice , they er they wo n't drink with them and that and er some of the lads some of the lads that have gone back have really realized the situation they 've put themselves in you know , and they sorry and now they 're on they do n't know which way to turn . |
| 12 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 13 | A craft which had once been profitably combined with farming became a miserable cottage industry dependent upon the towns and the bag-hosiers . |
| 14 | A visit to the annual conferences of the two major parties should convince any observer of the deep contrasts , and this is as evident in the case of the minority parties such as the Liberals and Social Democrats , and the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists . |
| 15 | We are entering an exciting phase in which links are being forged between transduction events at the plasma membrane and the cell cycle proteins such as the cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases which contribute to the DNA-synthesis and maturation-promoting factors which operate at G1/S and G2/M respectively . |
| 16 | Great trading nations such as the Phoenicians and the Etruscans produced almost no coins . |
| 17 | A motion for Noriega 's release on bail was denied on Jan. 26 on the grounds that he represented " an extraordinary danger to the community " and that he might use his " vast wealth overseas " to flee to a country from which the US could not recover him . |
| 18 | Visitor attractions such as the dungeons and marinas will only form one leg of what Nick Irens and David Hudd plan to be a three-pronged business . |
| 19 | The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion . |
| 20 | Quite simply that metonymy is about outside-world relationships accessible to the senses whereas metaphor is about relationships between inside and outside worlds . |
| 21 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 22 | A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) . |
| 23 | ( a ) What the Registers contain The three registers that make up the Entries on the Register — the Property Register , the Proprietorship Register and the Charges Register — contain the whole title of the registered proprietor including entries protective of the rights and interests of third parties by registration of notices , cautions , inhibitions and restrictions . |
| 24 | For French Country Cooking he borrowed from Elizabeth David many of the utensils that appear in his illustrations . |
| 25 | However , such an outcome will not be achieved without active pursuit by practitioners , managers , and organizations concerned with the rights and welfare of older people , and their acceptance of the challenge , as well as the opportunities , presented by a comprehensive , needs-led approach to assessment . |
| 26 | There are very little data available on the incomes and circumstances of absent parents but the data collected by the government as background to the White Paper suggest that such men tend to have lower than average earnings ( DSS , 1990a , Vol. 2 , para. 3.6 ) . |
| 27 | We went to erm a party on Saturday one of the men that he works with , it was his fiftieth birthday and of course fifty years ago was the war was n't it , nineteen forty two ? |
| 28 | Sometimes she had to fight an urge to unstopper one of the bottles and press the deadly lip of glass to her mouth . |
| 29 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 30 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |