Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 2 | One reads that such scenes give the green soldier nothing but a mad lust to kill in his turn . |
| 3 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 4 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 5 | Those wanting to spot the more unusual wild flower would appreciate the Autumn Gentian which like the Chiltern Gentian has been successsfully cultivated here . |
| 6 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 7 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 8 | I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds |
| 9 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 10 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 11 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 12 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 13 | The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole . |
| 14 | Trevor , fishing it with a floating line and a 20-foot leader , retrieved the Tinhead slowly on Kingfisher Pool and tempted a fine 7lb 2oz rainbow trout . |
| 15 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
| 16 | Do n't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo — it requires a different treatment . |
| 17 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 18 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 19 | Its system of display and retrieval must therefore be such that this kind of learning can proceed : that the individual user can , to a very great extent , progress himself through the various pathways to knowledge provided by the library , with the minimum of unnecessary difficulty and the maximum reinforcement . |
| 20 | I 'm not above all this , still boasting about my San Diego built glass-shafted driver which on a good day hits with a snap . |
| 21 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 22 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 23 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |
| 24 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 25 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |
| 26 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 27 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |
| 28 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 29 | Tatian was also influential for making a harmony of the four gospels which in the Syriac-speaking churches of the East long remained the standard lectionary text . |
| 30 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |