Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 2 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 3 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 4 | Tomorrow , she would go to the finest jeweller in London and sell the gems for the best price she could get . |
| 5 | To those leaving we say thank you for your efforts during an especially difficult past two years and to those coming on board for the first time we wish you every success in the future . |
| 6 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 7 | The William Roberts Action group had a meeting with Norman Wilkinson ( Director of Sports and Leisure ) on May 19 and when he was asked if there was any money in the budget for a new pool he said that there was not . |
| 8 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 9 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 10 | If you wish to increase your support , you can simply write a cheque for the additional amount you wish to give . |
| 11 | By forming course teams across different disciplines for the general SVQ we have improved dialogue , and this is certainly welcome . |
| 12 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |
| 13 | As he pulled out of the pit lane for the first time she found it hard to keep her emotions second to her job . |
| 14 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 15 | The number of voters citing defence as the main issue they wished to see discussed by the parties rose from 3 per cent at the start of the campaign to only 11 per cent in the third week and then stabilized at that level . |
| 16 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 17 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 18 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 19 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 20 | Stephen Tyler-Upfield wants to switch from conversions into building for the first-time buyers he believes are now increasing there . |
| 21 | ‘ You must regard exams as a joint problem you must solve together . |
| 22 | ‘ When I came to Cambridge University as a mature student I joined the chapel choir and was glad of the opportunity of the tour to develop and strengthen the connections which already existed , ’ she said . |
| 23 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 24 | It also obliges the outside world — meaning the West , and above all , the United States — to come to a decision about the military action it has been threatening . |
| 25 | Following a survey for the Widdicombe Committee , Professor Miller concluded that ‘ very few respondents declared a willingness to vote in a local election for the major party they opposed nationally ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , III : 106 ) . |
| 26 | I conclude , then , not with stirring words of praise for the philosophy of animal rights , or with caustic words of censure for the other philosophies I have mentioned . |
| 27 | AUSSIE cricket legend Bill O'Reilly , rated by Sir Donald Bradman as the best bowler he ever faced , has died aged 86 . |
| 28 | James was more circumspect , finding the boundary three times during the 144 balls he faced . |
| 29 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 30 | I 'm sure Dogs for the Disabled will welcome any donation for the wonderful work they do . |