Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [art] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only control on the single speed machine is the on/off rocker switch mounted on the top of the machine , towards the front of the green plastic casing . |
| 2 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 3 | MONDAY is the Why Bird Stop . |
| 4 | Londesborough is a truly country village with many families having lived there for generations . |
| 5 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 6 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 7 | Black was decreed to be the only acceptable colour ( though a few white hairs in the switch and a little white on the udder were permissible ) and the most prized colour was an almost chocolate brown-black . |
| 8 | The army was a mainly infantry force , with a light cavalry screen , supported by a strong artillery arm . |
| 9 | Greg , from Aylesbury is an ultra marathon runner … the British Champion over one hundred kilometres … or 62 miles . |
| 10 | I REFER to the feature ( Echo March 23 ) about the Durham Diocesan Synod which could leave the average reader believing that the Synod was an entirely clergy body , whereas it has a House of Laity of equal size . |
| 11 | EVEN though the ghastly Every Loser Wins was the best selling single of 1986 , Nick Berry has never really cashed in as a pop star . |
| 12 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |